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adaweb
It was February, 1995 when the Belgian group Adaweb started this website, offering a platform for painters, illustrators, video artists, musicians, architects and choreographers. Unknown artists can be found here as well as prominent ones, like Jenny Holzer. Adaweb tasts the limits of the visual and interactive possibilities of the WWW - so download times are often very long. We would like to point out a new exhibit (but elder ones are no less commendable) called "Vertical blanking interval." It looks like a video installation with many monitors, displaying common Internet solicitations and appeals ("Submit!", "Order now!") with real and virtual worlds. A fantastic and aesthetically outstanding exhibit!
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Art War Peace
"KUNSTcoop" presents "a communication sculpture growing together": an Internet leisure park, the LIFETIME hotel renting rooms and diary pages, the invisible embassy of Seborga, the Subliminal Test Installation for the conscious subconsciousness, the Final Protective Radiostation of Lucerne. And almost every page offers chances for visitors to participate. Even if you don't understand the contents and themes of the exhibition off the bat, these pages are really an exceptional example of genuine "net culture" and an excessive test of WWW potentialities. GIF animations, audios, unusual frames, a sursprising use of the HTML blink element, occasional opening of websites extremely wide to the right, HTML forms for text presentation, variations of background styles.... Experimental pages you really should not miss!
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Video Spaces
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, here presents eight installation projects from the technology section, exhibited in 1995. The web site offers images and explanatory essays for each of the artists' installations, together with introductory articles (by Barbara London, curator) on the subject of video art and installation.
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Archives - Watching is being watched
Gerrit Komrij has compiled this exhibition by The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. He chose about a hundred paintings from the museum's collection with a binding element - all of them have painting itself as their subject. In his selection, the guest curator demonstrates how people in art look at each other: artists at museum-goers, museum-goers at artists, museum-goers at museum-goers, and artists at artists.
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Internet Arts Museum for free (IAMfree)
"Through a continuing and expanding series of exhibitions, IAMfree showcases the finest contemporary art in a variety of media: music, visuals, and literature. In conjunction with this vision, IAMfree hopes to nurture a new system of the creation, business, and distribution of the arts. We invite you to view, listen, read and respond to the original and provocative artworks available only at IAMfree." - this is the welcome at the virtual museum, offering experimental music, photography, writing, and art.
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documenta X
The documenta X in Kassel, Germany, one of the greatest art fairs and spectacles all over the world, taking place only every five years, now has closed. But you can still view many of the experimental video and interactive exhibits, archived on this site. Be prepared to chat, to analyze, to interact and reflect!
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Prix Ars Electronica
Prix Ars Electronica was founded in 1987 as an interdisciplinary podium for people who value the computer as creative and intelligent medium in the creation of art. Like no other contest of its kind the Prix Ars Electronica unites artists from more than 50 counties entering about 1500 works every year. On this site all winners and their contributions are archived in different categories: Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Computer Music, and Interactive Art.
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Mark Tribe: Under Construction
Roadworks - for most of us, they are just an annoyance. But Mark Tribe - an American artist formerly living in Berlin - recognizes them as an "aesthetic phenomenon in the urban landscape". A visit at the former Checkpoint Charlie (with gigantic roadworks) on the one hand and the frequent icon "Under Construction" on web sites on the other hand were motives for his site. Photographs of approximately 100 places "under construction" are to be visited - either with a map of Berlin or with an index.
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