Art and Photography
Karen J Guthrie and Nina Pope's four week tour of the Western Isles following the journey of DR. Johnson and Boswell in the C17th around Scotland. Uploaded as they went along, this extensive online diary is a collection of still images, video & audio clips, conversations and art pieces form their journey..
Art and Photography
Mystical World Wide Web "For Artists at all levels including, painters, performers, sculptors, poets, composers, writers and dancers. Mystical-WWW supports the Arts as it believes it is a fundamental necessity for existence and yet no-one knows why. Without stimulation the brain dies and so the hypothesis could be raised that "the reason for Art is to stimulate the mind", as nature itself is a work of Art therefore Art must be nature at work and we all know how mysterious nature can appear. It is no wonder then that Art and science are intrinsically linked."Jake Tilson's The Cooker The Cooker is a site which contains a wide variety of highly experiment work which explore and extends the possibilities of creative publishing on the net. Various 'test areas' allow easy exploration of the various components of The CookerObsolete Excellent collection of sites including Anti-Rom, Oscillate, Source records & loads of Shock Wave experiments
The Hub Contains a wide variety of entertaining interactive pieces, animations and small movies designed to be download and played on your own computer. All of the new additions to the site are to found in the 'Hub Tub' while the whole of the archive is found in the Hub Heaven which has work going back to 1995. As usual, it help to have a fast link as some files are well over 1Mb in size.Channel artnet The Channel Project has been set up to facilitate and encourage photographic and media groups to use the Net as a medium for "activity, exchange, dissemination of information, audience development and creative projects". Some of the fruits of Channel include the Sex.Net.identity project which is the result of a collaboration of five different Media Centres across the UK. The artists involved used image manipulation, animation, text, file transfer, email and Internet relay chat (phew!) to create a new identity on-line and produce the work found here at channel.elevavtor "Elevator is a forum for interactive artwork specifically created for a virtual space on the internet and will be the first of its kind in Scotland. Twenty international artists will show their work over a period of six months from the 17th of May 1996. Elevator goes to the boundaries of the internet. The potency of elevator is in its use of the internet as a creative medium. The work presented will use the internet itself as an integral part of the creative expression."
The Raft Virgin Music Group's online music projectThe Blue Dot The blue dot contains a wide range of on-line exhibits, galleries and experiences.
Stelarc Stelarc's is performance artist whose staged events have included suspending his body entirely by cables attached only to his skin, constructing sculptures inside his own stomach (complete with light and sound emission) and combining advanced computer driven robots which are operated on electrical impulses form the brain and the Net(!) Remember- don't try this at home...Guerrilla Girls The Guerrilla Girls are a group of American women artists and arts professionals who make posters about discrimination within the art world. In the 10 years that they have been going they have produced over 70 posters which use humour to convey information and provoke discussion about racism and sexism. Seeing themselves as the feminine counter-parts to super-man and Robin Hood, the Guerrilla Girls keep themselves anonymous which in turn attracts plenty of attention and support.Fine Art Forum Online Established in 1987 by Paul Brown, Fine Art Forum was one of first art groups to use computer networks to distribute information about the arts and since that time it has steadily grown into one of the best art resources on the net, provide broad and useful information on art and technology free of charge. Subscribe to its monthly on-magazine which includes all the latest announcements, happenings, openings and reviews in the on-line art world. Also contains extensive and meticulously maintained Links (well over 1000 and regularly checked) to other on-line arts resources including web sites, gopher, ftp sites, mailing - an excellent place to start for art stuff.ada web Ada is a web space committed to showing contemporary fine art works, and includes 'names' such as Jenny Holitzer & Angela Bullock.
a R o o m w i t h o u t W a l l s Very active and regulary updated on-line gallery organised by Ted Warnell. Plenty of interesting artworks to be found here including some of Ted's own surreal photo-manipulations.The World's Woman Online! Began last year at the Arizona State University as a global networking project for women artists it soon expanded into a this huge project for the U.N.'s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995. If you are interested in finding more about other woman artists on-line be sure to check out the Women Artists Archive at the Onoma State University .brad brace One of the Net's unsung art activists- an excellent collection of individual and collaborative art projects.World Wide Arts Resources. If you want some sort of indication of just how many art related sites check out the World Wide Arts Resources. The site contains links to just about every sort of art site there is including exhibitions, individual artists (of which over 5000 are listed here), performances, museums, institutions, education etc.
ArtAIDS ArtAIDS is an art project that commemorates and celebrates the fight against AIDS and a unique collaboration that enables artists to join together to create an ongoing 'quilt' of images, using the World Wide Web. Anyone can view it, anyone can respond to it, and anyone can contribute to it. So if you see an image that you find interesting you can down-load it, alter it and then submit it back to the ArtAIDS site. Revamped and expanded for World AIDS day December 1995, this site demonstrates how the Net can be used to unite people and focus attention upon what is a crucial issue for our times.Queerscribes Visit Refractions: an online virtual nightclub with a difference! Some great stuff here but no drugs or drinking allowed...Atelier Nord Atelier Nord is a arts workshop sited in Oslo, Norway where artists in residence work with different projects within internet, multimedia, electronic images, computer animation, video, sound, performance and printmaking. This online site contains examples of work produced at Atelier Nord specifically for the internet and includes, amongst many others, 'ID' by Kenneth Korstad LangŒswork and 'yoUÊ aReÊeLle' which is a really sumptuous and stimulating body of work by American artist Corinne Whitaker.6168 Artworks by Peter Horvath and Sharon Matarazzo. The gallery has five separate but equally engaging interactive art pieces including 'The Guide' by Peter Horvath which is a exploration of this century's most familiar and obtuse medium (no prizes for guessing what that is), and 'Elsewhere' by Sharon Matarazzo which is 'a pilgrimage to the intangible, a cumulative exhibit concerned with notions of history, place and self amongst the vast ambiguity of the internet'. Wonderful to explore and beautiful to look at although I experienced very slow downloads.
PARALLEL Gallery and Journal Australian based site which presents work from artists and writers who are multi-disciplinary in theory and in practice. The site covers a wide spectrum of interests including film, video, fiction, language, sexualities, death, criticism and aims to be a fluid and ever expanding WWW site.The Surrealism Server So what exactly is surrealism? 'You would be foolish to accept any answer. Do not be deceived, for it is better to ask, 'What is the sound of two hands clapping?' .Digital Diaspora An international network of multimedia artists, writers and media practitioners who are challenging us to re-examine our relationship to our cultures and the way we represent them through the use of digital technology. As well as containing examples of digital art works by artists such as Keith Piper, Roshini Kempadoo and Derek Richards, Digital Diaspora has been very active in organising collaborative events. Currently under construction.....Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall A gallery of graffiti art from cities around the world and believes that art belongs in public spaces, with legal walls made available for this art form. The site contains hundreds of example of graffiti art which has been submitted either by the artists themselves or their supporters, and contains interviews and numerous articles about the subject. One of thier many goals is to provide cultural information and resources about this area and help preserve and document this constantly disappearing art.
Cubism Gallery Asada Japanese gallery committed to showing Europian cubist paintings