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http://www.v2.nl/
V2 was set up in 1981 as a center for art and technology, by a group of multimedia artists in Den Bosch, Holland. The days of its current web site, created back in 1994, are numbered, as it is soon to undergo a complete restyling. Although the site is already six years old, and has never been updated, its look is still current and dynamic, with well designed, clean-cut graphics. It hosts information about V2’s various activities, including Deaf, the biannual Dutch Electronic Art Festival, held in Rotterdam. The Festival offers an exhibition of interactive installations, Internet projects, CD-ROM, performances, seminars, workshops and a symposium. This year’s event, Machine Times, is taking place from November 14 to 26 in Rotterdam.
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http://www.newmediastudies.com/art
The result of collaboration between Theory.org.uk and newmediastudies.com, Some things about art and cities is an online project which considers the relationship between art and cities from a sociological and cultural point of view. The graphic interface evokes a simple underground map made up of various colored lines. The site was created in April 2000 by David Gauntlett, author of several books including . Moving the mouse along the different underground lines of this ‘virtual art city’ you discover numerous areas of interest. There is one, for example, devoted to art book reviews and another hosting links to art web sites. In certain sections, such as ‘The city in media’, the web site is interactive. People the world over can contribute to the page by discussing a term from a media context which they associate particularly to urban life. There’s also a page dedicated to Matthew Collings, best known as writer and presenter of the English television series This is Modern Art and host of the Turner Prize awards program on Channel Four. Here he is profiled in the guise of artist.
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http://www.isea.qc.ca
Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts is a non-profit organization, which now has its head office in Montreal, Canada. The association’s main aim is to promote and develop electronic arts with contributions from artists, institutions and collaborators working in a variety of fields. The web site, in English and French, gives information about the center’s activities. These include a series of prestigious symposia, held in a different city every year, concerning the changing frontiers of contemporary art and new technologies. The tenth symposium is scheduled to take place in December in Paris. Isea also publishes a bimonthly newsletter, which you can subscribe to online, containing news, reviews and interviews.
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http://www.gilbertandgeorge.co.uk/
The official web site of artist couple Gilbert & George was created in 1997 and serves as an extremely useful tool for getting to know their work. It brings together a large collection of images from 1988 to date; information about exhibitions past and present; and numerous texts and interviews. The title of each section is written in white on a black background, which turns bright red when you click on it. The most amusing section, however, is dedicated to the Ten Commandments, freely re-written and interpreted by the two artists. The third commandment, for example, becomes “Thou shalt make use of sex”.
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http://www.fridakahlo.it/
The first Italian web site dedicated to Frida Kahlo is a non-profit site called Frida Kahlo & Contemporary Thoughts. It was created by Daniela Falini who, in addition to putting together a considerable quantity of information and images about the Mexican artist, has written some personal thoughts on her work. Despite being an ‘unofficial’ site it is constantly up dated with texts, news and notices about up-coming temporary exhibitions containing Kahlo’s work. There is also a carefully compiled bibliography of the artist–the most comprehensive available online. On the home page it’s possible to access a short film clip in which brief colored messages scroll over digitally reworked images. The site is only partly in English.
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