Http://www.viper.ch


There are two striking features about the Swiss web site viper. First, its extraordinary graphics, which succeed in creating an extremely elaborate, yet minimal, effect. Second, the clear way in which the information is laid out. Collected together in several areas, each section is represented visually by a different image depicting communication tools or electrical appliances. The image of a video recorder, for example, discloses information about the organization’s numerous activities. These include an annual festival for new forms of visual expression (film, video, and new media). Launched in 1980, last year’s event was the first to be held in Basle. The site currently hosts links to other festivals dedicated to contemporary art, cinema, artists, and organizations. The inclusion of Web art projects on the site is scheduled for 2001.

http://www.camdenartscentre.org/


The Camden Arts Centre is a venue for contemporary visual arts and education. It presents a series of exhibitions, artist-in-residence programs and other projects. The web site recently inaugurated two Internet art projects by e-2. The first, entitled Contact, is the brainchild of Amy Plant. It constitutes the last work in the “North London Link” series of seven public artworks, by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, which have been commissioned for the surroundings of the Camden Arts Centre since 1998. The second project, by Anna Best and Karen Stripp, is the third part of Mecca, another of the North London Link works. At the moment, the site only hosts these two specific projects, and sadly doesn’t offer any information about the center’s own, very interesting, activities.

http://www.sva.edu/salon


This year sees the eighth Digital Salon take place in New York, directed by Bruce Wands. Held every year at the Museum of Visual Arts – part of the School of Visual Arts – the exhibition brings together digital images, installations, sculptures, videos, CD-ROMs and art projects specifically designed for Internet. Hosted on the school’s web site, the exhibition site gives access to a variety of information. It presents the numerous works on show, links to online artworks, a selection of essays written to accompany the exhibitions, and all the relevant information required for taking part in the next Digital Salon event.

http://www.bam.org/tree


To coincide with a new performance by choreographer Ralph Lemon, Tree: Part 2 of the Geography Trilogy, the Brooklyn Music Academy commissioned Before and After Geography, a Web project created specifically for Internet by multimedia artists Vivian Selbo and Carl Skelton. The work – a blend of sounds, images and texts – is based on journals, notes, photos and videos of rehearsals for Lemon’s new piece. Exploring the various stages of invention, creation and final performance, it forms a sort of ‘theatrical meditation’ on intercultural dialogue and the search for individual artistic identity.

http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/index.html


The Daniel Langlois Foundation for art, science and technology was set up in Canada in 1997. Its aim was to promote digital art and encourage interdisciplinary research by supporting projects with these objectives. To this end, the foundation has created several specific programs. The site, in English and French, furnishes the information required to participate in such initiatives and an archive giving access to all the projects the foundation has funded since 1997. Through January 31, 2001 it’s possible to submit proposals for new art projects.