http://www.anthology-of-art.net


“What is, in the context of contemporary art, your vision of a future art?” This question opens the site of The Anthology of Art, which is a sort of curious virtual platform, ideated by the artist Jochen Gerz. Here, internationally-known artists and critics debate and discuss art itself, as well as its various theoretical and critical aspects and processes. The contributions take the form of both images and texts that are accessible online for two weeks only, after which each contributor, whether artist or theorist, invites in turn another author from their specific area. In this way, a place is created where various points of view run together. This interesting experiment will come to an end on the Net in July of 2002, but eventually the project will have a physical record: six months after its Internet closure, a paper edition will be published, gathering together all the images and texts collected throughout the entire year. Among those who have already contributed to this venture are Daniel Buren, Hou Hanru, Gianfranco Maraniello, and Rosemarie Trockel.

http://www.bkyn.com


“Bkyn, Online Journal of the Arts”, is an electronic magazine edited by the artist, photographer, and curator Paul Laster, whose intention is to create a communications network between artists and authors whether working with more traditional art forms or with new media. The first issue is presented with a dynamic interface of a particularly interesting design, created by Susan Cook, who was awarded at the 48^th International Festival of Advertising in Cannes. The site contains poetry, essays, short stories, images, musical compositions, sound pieces, short films, digital projects, and also indicates interesting internet sites. Among the sound compositions is a piece called ftp >snd > by DJ Spooky, which was originally created for the exhibition Bitstreams held at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In this case the artist, who regularly collects city noise to use later on in his musical collages, cleverly transforms the monotonous noise of traffic into a mellow and sensual polyphony.

http://www.dian-network.com


The Digital Interactive Artists’ Network is an Internet resource for artists that want to explore the potential of the World Wide Web, find out about the new technologies available for image animation, and discover projects developed exclusively for the net. The site had two main objectives which manage to exist symbiotically: on the one hand, artists that have created Web-based works and whose research tends to incorporate more expressive fields can sign up to this international network and propose their works; on the other hand, the regular visitors can view a really interesting range of projects. A great number of these are created in flash and are often accompanied by sound. TEMPUS_MELT by Gunilla Leander is an animated piece in which voices and images are mixed together, making the spectators feel as though they are spying through a keyhole. Sachiko Hayashi presents two works: Trapped, which focuses on the figure of a Serial Killer, with a description of his preferences and habits, while Yours Truly is a sort of electronic collage of images which revolve around the words hope, happiness, sadness, love, and revenge. Among the artists who work in a sort of comics style, Lars Nilsson presents Larsoeva, a short animated piece in black and white, in which a tender and innocuous kiss becomes the bit of a vampire.

http://www.twcdc.com


The title of San Francisco resident Andy Cox’s project derives from the name of the collective, TWCDC (Together We Can Defeat Capitalism), which the artist created a few years ago. One of the main characteristics of Cox’s work is, among other things, the purchase of advertising spaces for posters—in the street, in public squares, or at train stations on the platforms—to send out messages such as “Capitalism Stops at Nothing.” Included in the exhibition Trompe L’Oeil: Fictitious Internet Sites, which was held this summer at the MediaZLounge at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the site plays on the ideas of pretense and imitation, concepts that are coming more and more under the scrutiny of artists who use the Internet as their expressive means. The interface of the site explicitly refers to the desktop of a computer with a Windows operating system and humorously recreates other sites, such as that of the Whitney Biennale. Even more curious is a sort of parody of CitiBank—which has been transformed into City Bank—and where it is possible to have one’s fifteen minutes of celebrity, as reminded by a short film of an animated Andy Warhol, the timeless icon of consumerism and of the art-star system, and the favorite character in this new city of dreams.

http://www.meineigenheim.com


E-TEAM is a product of the collaboration of Franziska Lamprecht, Hajoe Moderegger, and Daniel Seiple, all artists who live and work in New York. The site documents, in minute detail, their performance-based projects such as Quick Click, in which they invited people to come up to the ninety-first floor of the World Trade Center, Tower 1, and lean against a window in order to be photographed from the outside by a helicopter. Here they also present other amusing video projects, such as the funny How to unclog a Toilet, which explains all the various methods a housewife might resort to in order to achieve this end. This video is easily as entertaining as a commercial one made precisely to demonstrate the efficiency of certain household products.