Http://www.body-bytes.de


This is the site for CYNETart, an arts festival for new media, founded in 1997 and held annually in Dresden. Comprised of a competition, exhibition, and a series of happenings and performances, the event focuses on work that involves computer graphics, animation, Internet projects, and interactive installations. In the last few years, it has focused its attention particularly on digital art, synesthetic perception, the worldwide network, media expertise, and interface technology. The site, mostly in German with some English sections, is a useful and well-organized tool that allows the user to be constantly updated on the future dates and artists selected to participate. There is also an extensive archive that can be consulted for information on the previous editions, such as lists of their participants, themes, and works of the selected artists.

http://io.khm.de


For several years, the group Knowbotic Research, made up of Yvonne Wilhelm, Alexander Tuchacek, and Christian Huebler, has been exploring the new frontiers of electronic art, specifically investigating them with sophisticated software and with new methods for interaction. In collaboration with the Academy for Media Arts in Cologne, KR+cF have founded a laboratory for multimedia tactics, called “Mem_brane.” Besides collating useful biographic or bibliographic information, the site also presents a number of projects for which the group has received various prestigious citations of international recognition. One of the most interesting works is I0_DENCIES, which explores the possibilities of intervention and stimulation of change in complex urban developments located all over the world; a few of the large cities under examination, for example, are Saõ Paolo and Tokyo. These interventions are achieved using construction models together with new methods of data gathering and terrain mapping. On the occasion of Liste 2001, KR+cF presented a new project with the support of Plug In (www.weallplugin.org), a new organization with its seat in Basel that is principally dedicated to the promotion and production of digital art. The new multimedia installation was both technically sophisticated and visually refined, combining audio, light, and visual elements which converged only via the

http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/


Independent Curators International is a non-profit organization with its headquarters in New York. The group works with a series of international curators to realize exhibitions that are specifically created as being itinerant. Since 1975, when it was founded, the association has curated approximately ninety shows, comprising the works of over two thousand artists, which were hung in museums, galleries, art centers, and alternative spaces throughout the US and the rest of the world. The site provides useful information on the organization and, above all, an up-to-date calendar of all the events that they are promoting. Among them Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace curated by Steve Dietz, which illustrates the history of telematic art with a wide selection of artists from the pioneers, like Roy Ascott, to the younger generation, such as Tina LaPorta.

http://www.isea.qc.ca


ISEA, The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts is a non-profit organization made up of both institutions and individuals interested in the creative, theoretical, and technological aspects of electronic art. The association publishes a monthly newsletter and also organizes an annual international symposium, held in a different city every year, which brings together diverse people from the various fields that stimulate and promote the development of multi-media art. The site, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese, provides information on the group’s projects and activities, an example of which is their participation in meetings and debates at key events, such as SIGGRAPH or the Ars Electronica Festival.

http://www.voyd.com/ia/


New interpretive readings and models for future development in the contemporary arts are being fueled by the strong interest on the part of museums and exhibition spaces towards artistic experimentation that employs that favored tool: the new technologies. [re]distributions is the title of a quirky online exhibition, curated by the artist Patrick Lichty, which explores the expressive potential of portable equipment like Palm Pilots and other types of handheld computing, cellphones and pagers. Among the artists whose work has been collected here, one finds David Crawford, John Simon, and Mark Amerika. The site, divided into sections “Pda,” “Wireless,” “Nomads,” and “Video,” also presents written pieces on the topic. Some of the authors are Mike Mosher, Carl Di Salvo, Hans Meyer and the curator of the entire project.