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A
site devoted exclusively to net.art. One of the most visually attractive
spots on the web, its projects are characterised by a constant demand for
interactive e-mail correspondence. The pieces of net.art to be found here
are mostly in a written form, open to feedback and continual interaction
between the author, the work and the viewer. |
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ADAWEB
One
of the most prestigious net.art sites. This space, with its unmistakable
design, houses net.works that are already considered to be classics. Jenny
Holzer, Muntadas, Jodi, Aitken, and other artists make this site one that
is not be missed. The success of this site is due to its being the first
site to bring together a selection of net.art chosen with real criteria,
and its constant support of artistic development in this medium. |
| AIR
The
first 'metasite' in Spanish. Air is a venue for communication and the interconnection
for a group of independent websites from the Iberian peninsula, which devote
their pages to the problematics of art in today's societies, from wide-ranging
perspectives. These pages give us access to its different members, making
it possible to explore our region's intensive activity in the fields of
art and the Internet. |
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ALT-X
Another
site not to be missed. They define themselves as the best site on the Internet
for contemporary art and criticism. And with reason: the net.artworks featured
here, although not very many, are highly oriented towards the interrelationship
between the tradition of critical theory and the new forms of expression
made possible by new media, especially the web. Their online Digital|Studies
e-xhibition is probably the best net.art show organised to date. |
| ANTIROM
This
site's format is one of the most fascinating to be found on the web. Based
on a series of interactive shorts (using Shockwave technology), its navigational
system is absolutely disorienting, and references to authorship, themes
or sources are nonexistent. Excellent pieces that function as an antidote
against some of the ills afflicting the 'conventional' art world. Pure
Net.art, and, as its name indicates, a project that backs the 'antirom-anticism'
of art and artists. |
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c3
An
active Hungarian organisation whose efforts are aimed at creating works
for the Internet using diverse technologies, such as Virtual Reality Modelling
Language (VRML) and digital video. Developed by the Soros Foundation, it
has an excellent homepage. The efforts of this centre, outside the Western
art centres, are noteworthy. An example of how on the web, the concept
of periphery and centre is irrelevant. |
| CONSTRUCT
Site
dedicated to art made for the Internet. Specialised in projects that involve
VRML. Both its design and its internal navigation system are very efficient.
Projects here vary from virtual reality comics to multimedia installations,
as well as three-dimensional visualisations of space. |
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THE
CRASHSITE
One
of the most irreverent, efficient 'e-zines' on the Internet. Art projects
are found in the Trash section, and revolve around this movement's counterculture
of rock, comics and iconography. Its aesthetic side is very fresh, and
its content is shot through with irony. Its efficiency comes from being
a clear example of 'unity of distribution' of a current of thought, that
of the (un)generation X. |
| CTHEORY
Site
devoted to contemporary theory, technology and culture. Brings together
articles and interviews, featuring Baudrillard, Crandall, and many more.
A collective effort in favour of free distribution and circulation of contemporary
knowledge. Sites like "CTheory" justify the idea that the Internet is one
of the counterculture's most efficient parallel systems. A site that should
be visited periodically (if you don't have an e-mail subscription to its
articles). |
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FOUNDATION
FOR DIGITAL CULTURE
The
true New York 'metasite'. It is a website about websites. Its members carry
out diverse activities, from reflecting on electronic culture to creating
works for the web. Its 'intranet' includes organisations as prestigious
and interesting as Rhizome, FPY, Theoricon, and ada 'web. |
| IRATIONAL.ORG
A
very active site on the net.art scene; one of the most daring in terms
of theme and style. Its radically different homepage incites users to continuously
reflect on the impact of computers, and by extension, computer networks,
in their private lives. Most of its works can be considered politically
incorrect. We like that. |
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JODI
According
to his friend Vuk Cosic, 'the Spanish net.artist who is unanimously considered
the greatest artist of the 20th century. He is unique as an inventor of
forms, innovator of styles and techniques, master of various media, and
one of the most prolific artists in history. He has created more than 20,000
works'. Si non e vero, e ben trovatto. |
| KRCF
The
site for 'knowbotics research', one of the most prestigious, renowned research
groups in electronic art. KR+cF is 'interested in opening up fields of
action within the processes of existing cognisance.' The site's sections
include, among others, 10-dencies, mem-brane, (a media strategy lab), and
non-located online, one of the most respected electronic magazines. |
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MOSCOW
www ARTCENTRE
A
very attractive independent initiative, which questions the pertinence
of the idea of art but which, in spite of this, 'uses it so that the navigator
does not completely lose his vanishing identity.' Magnificent pieces of
net.art, and a radical concept of what their communicative practices involve
as far as questioning the institutionalised existence of Art. Their front
pages alone would be enough to make this a noteworthy site. |
| NETTIME
Together
with Rhizome, the most prestigious data base and mailing list on the Internet.
The two issues of its electronic magazine, conceived as a book-in-progress,
surely constitute one of the finest existing compilations of theoretical
texts on the problems of art on the web. Some beautiful examples of e-mail.art. |
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PLEXUS
One
of the most complex and interesting sites, with an elegant yet risky design.
The selections of art presented in its galleries are often not up to the
level of its magazines. Among these, the electronic version of the mythical
lacanian ink. |
| RHIZOME
In
Rhizome, everyone in the net.art.community meets and "makes rhizome". It
has a data base and two mailing lists that link up and communicate everything
happening on the web, offering information on a wide range of topics. |
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TALKBACK!
An
electronic magazine on the problematics of art and the web. Its easy-to-read
design is restrained, elegant, and uncluttered. Magnificent contributions.
Three issues to date. The first treated 'the archive as artwork', the second
revolved around the question of 'identity', and the third looks at 'the
community', both virtual and 'the other'. |
| THE
THING
"The
Thing" is one of the pioneer sites for the art community. It sees itself
as a kind of forum for artists and people interested in the art world.
A venue for many of the best net.art projects produced by American net.artists.
Has 'branches' in Berlin, Vienna (the original), Amsterdam and Frankfurt,
although they try to reject the philosophy of a localised site, and aim
without complete success to blend the content of these different nodes. |
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VUK
This
is the site of Vuk Cosic, who, together with Jodi, Alexei Shoulgin and
Heat Bunting, is one of the most celebrated net.artists (at least in his
own opinion) to date. His site has links to interesting projects by other
artists, and contains a complete mirror of the still active dx site. |
| WHY
NOT SNEEZE?
A
site on art criticism and the Internet. They define themselves as a 'site
that is simultaneously an electronic magazine and an experimental laboratory.'
Magnificent design and excellent pieces, it is the kind of double-fronted
site (artistic practice/critical thought) that can make the best contribution
at this time to the strategic development of net.art as a radical practice. |
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WOMEN
AND PERFORMANCE
An
excellent online magazine that analyses the problematics of gender and
sexuality from a feminist point of view, demonstrating that contemporary
feminist theory has compiled the best theoretical material for developing
criticism of the essentialist concepts of subjectivity. The site includes
marvellous yellow pages on these matters. ot to be missed is issue #17,
which provides a specific critical analysis of new sexual behaviour in
cyberspace. |
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