http://ib-arts.dyne.org


The IB_PROJECT FOR THE ARTS brings together audio works and the investigations into the interaction of poetry, image, music, and various other expressive media carried out by Isabella Bordoni. Italian artist Bordoni co founded the theater company and multimedia workshop “Giardini Pensili” with Roberto Paci Dalò in 1985. With its minimal graphics and easily navigated site, and with certain areas brought to life by short, obsessively repeated sounds, the web site presents projects that are still in the developmental stage. These include Poetry Box, which the artist defines as “a label, a melting pot that gathers together the fruits technical and artistic know-how.” In the section titled “Memory” there are links to projects, installations, and performances carried out by the artist—each time with the assistance of different collaborators—for events and international exhibit spaces such as the Ars Electronica Center in Linz.

http://www.whitney.org


The interest that international museums, art institutions, and exhibition spaces are now showing in art projects created specifically for the Internet is growing at a daily rate. Having dedicated a special section to online art at the Whitney Biennial 2000, the American museum is currently hosting a series of projects on its web site—gathered together under the title Data Dynamics—to coincide with the BitStreams exhibition. The five works of web art presented—Apartment by Marek Walczak, Point to Point by Mark Napier, netomat^™ by Maciej Wisniewski, DissemiNet by Beth Stryker and Sawad Brooks, and Camouflage Town by Adrianne Wortzel—essentially revolve around the idea of dynamically mapping information. The site has recently launched a new section entitled “Artport.” Curated by Christiane Paul, and completely independent from the main site from the point of view of graphics, “Artport” represents an important resource for the digital art community. The site is divided into four main areas: a database of artists and multimedia projects; an archive in which to find links to exhibitions, events, and museums; a virtual gallery in which new Internet projects are presented; and a comprehensive collection of the works that have already been shown at the Whitney.

http://www.mycity.com.br


Mycity is an international project curated by Jair de Souza. First set in motion in Rio de Janeiro with the support of the Centro Culturale Banco do Brasil, where it was launched in December 1999, it was recently reproposed at the third Festa di Internet in Florence. Following a selection process that lasted for six months, numerous artists and webdesigners from forty-three cities worldwide were invited to create a personal interpretation of their native city or of that in which they. These included Venice, Stockholm, San Francisco, and Amsterdam. The web site has become a forum in which to exhibit the various projects, all of which are characterized by diverse, original interfaces, and some of which are enhanced by sound. Furthermore, all the artists who weren’t able to take part in the official project have been invited to create other projects that will be included in the special section mycityoff on which visitors to the site can give their opinion.

http://feed.projects.sfmoma.org/


Feed is a Web project—presented as part of the online exhibit 01 01 01 Art in Technological Times, hosted on the web site of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art—by artist Mark Napier, who has, for a number of years, been working principally with new media and creating Internet projects such as potatoland. Feed is a sort of new visual interface. It is triggered into action by an automatic process that reads the information contained on the web page. Once the address of a particular site has been inserted, Feed reads each byte of the text and the images within the Web pages related to it. In the case of sites that contain numerous links, such as search engines, Feed’s reading is unlimited. Visitors are also invited to interact with the piece, modifying the size of the various windows that open on the screen and creating new, unpredictable visual effects every time.

http://www.frame-fund.fi


Frame, Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, was founded in 1992 in the hope of establishing an international network of contacts to promote contemporary Finnish art. This they achieved by organizing exhibitions, supporting projects, collaborating with a large number of European museums and galleries, and gathering together information about Finnish art. Although the site’s graphics are not particularly well designed, it allows the visitor to get to know the services and various activities that Frame provides. It also hosts numerous links to Finnish museums and institutions, and offers a complete, regularly updated calendar of events relating to the activities of artists based in Finland. A particular feature was instigated in January 1999 whereby each month sees a different artist elected to be the subject of a mini-profile, which includes images of their works, a short biography, and the gallery or exhibit space that represents them. The site is in English.