http://www.werkleitz.de/realwork


The fourth Werkleitz Biennial in Germany has offered up numerous contributions by international artists through performance, film, video and Internet projects on the theme of the title real[work]. The six curators of the various sections have, in fact, chosen specific pieces and projects to bring into discussion the concept of ‘work’ – one which has changed over the course of recent years due to social and cultural transformations. The website, in English and German, is graphically engaging and its colored pages are animated by little blindfolded characters in white shirts. It gathers together all the useful information about the latest biennial and previous ones, although for every event a specific site was created and so, for now at least, there isn’t any aesthetic continuity. Every artist taking part is presented with some images, a professional CV and a brief introduction to the works on show: unfortunately it’s not possible to visualize the videos online.

http://www.chinese-art.com


Chinese-art.com is a portal specializing in art that represents, for collectors, historians, gallery owners, curators, critics and all those who move in art circles but don’t live in China, an important source to help them keep up to date on the current Chinese and Oriental art scene. Right from the home page the site is divided into two distinct areas: a recently developed one, managed by Yin Ji'nan, dedicated to traditional Chinese art and one devoted to contemporary Chinese art, directed by Britta Erickson. Included by London’s “The Art Newspaper” among its top five favorite Chinese art sites for the year 2000, the portal is full of information, events news, exhibition calendars and reviews, links to sites concerned with Chinese art or including Chinese artists, articles and in-depth info on all aspects of oriental art.

http://www.verybusy.org


Despite its somewhat misleading and quite curious name, the Mediaart Archivist and Center for Hardwired Arts is graphically arranged as a search engine, actually organized as a site that deals essentially with contemporary art and new media. Founded in 1998 by the team of Joachim Blank, Nilko Neupert, Britta Frahm, Evelyn Teustsch, Swen Hellmich, and Stephan Schröder from the HGB / Academy of Visual Arts in the German city of Lipzig, the home page has been added to and modified many times in the last few years. Some parts of the site are internally managed by visitors. That is, it's possible for example to autonomously insert information advertising an event or link without any kind of filter whatsoever. This allows for flexible site management and adjustment of its database, which is full of link information that is growing daily. However, the site does not yet represent an exhaustive archive, and unfortunately many areas are only available in German.

http://geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/kareninarivista.html


Karenina.it was born in 1998 as a virtual club, an "open" space that began as a crossroads for the experiences of artists, curators, and theoreticians of the visual arts. It started as a place where experimental writings, poetry and new technologies were allowed to flow into each other. The web-zine, directed by Caterina Davinio, hosts theoretical writings, rubrics, news, various links and reader contributions that can freely send in their ideas and even listings. The site contains iconographic matierial from numorous artists. Among these are: Mario Canali, Ida Gerosa, Coco Gordon, and Davinio herself. The graphics of the site are voluntarily intrusive and chaotic with words, often in large capital, multicolored characters, which flow horizontally across the background and change time and again, playing with the simple repetition and constant image.

http://www.dds.nl/~bugsite/concept.htm


“Like a small insect, the bug crawls in every direction… It denies obstacles… it grows bigger like a virus….” This is only a small extract from the text of a new web site by Sonja Beijering, Sebastiaan Duong and Andreas Templin. These artists have given life to the criptic project, “buG site,” who’s aim is to develop a new presentation model for works by contemporary visual artists. It is a sort of dynamic and nomadic structure, with the possibility of simultaneously invading various cities and situations through the works and participation of 30 artists. Extremely interesting from a visual graphics point of view, the site contains various, curiously visible documents with some short videos that trace the path of the ‘buG’, which awaits subsequent directions.