http://www.passiopea.net


After having completed Passages -– an Internet art project that was based on the “transformation” in images from some textual fragments taken from the novel Antropoeccentrico by Gianni Actis Barone – Manuela Corti gave life to yet another project. Grey, in which Corti again involved a conspicuous number of artists, takes its cue from the subject of Paul Delaroche’s canvas, The Execution of Lady Grey (1833), who was beheaded in 1554 at the age of 17. The piece, which deals with the pain of death, is exhibited at the National Gallery of London. The artists invited to work on Grey were asked to imagine themselves assisting a capital execution and therefore to express, through images, sounds and texts, the sensations that would undoubtedly surface on the eve of the execution. Students that had participated at a workshop on Internet technology and art held in Bologna (and had reflected and freely interpreted the work of each invited artist) were individually assigned to the artists, who then served as tutors. Beyond the diverse artistic interventions cyclically rotating on the home page, within the site there is also an electronic blackboard on which you can leave comments

http://www.artseensoho.com/


ArtseenSoho began in 1995, the brainchild of Timothy Trompeter and Peter Cunningham, who currently are working on a CD-ROM that allows you to virtually tour the streets and neighborhoods of New York’s Soho area. The next step is to put the off-line media on-line, in effect literally putting the CD-ROM on the web. The site should be an extremely useful way to keep up-to-date on the New York art scene through gallery schedules and programs. Unfortunately, however, the information contained has yet to be updated from last year.

http://www.wdw.nl


Witte de With was born in 1990 and financed by the Dutch Cultural Minister. The institute shares a central Rotterdam building with Centrum Beeldende Kunst, a contemporary art institute for local artists. In collaboration with many international organizations, the “WdW” organizes an annual program of about six exhibitions. Furthermore, its web site represents a true extension of the institute. For example, in concomitance with the exhibition Play-use, the site began a forum focused on looking into the relationships between contemporary art and design within visible international culture, therefore involving all visitors. Meanwhile, the site’s generally somber graphics have been heated up by some areas dominated by lively, fluorescent colors. Among the various areas, the one dedicated to all central publications is enriched by information on artists from old and new generations, and it includes a keyword-oriented search engine.

http://www.mip.at


The Viennese association ‘museum in progress’ was founded in 1990 by Kathrin Messner and Josef Ortner. Working together with various organizations–for the most part from the media, like the daily newspaper “Der Standar” or the culture section of Austrian national TV– art projects are brought to light through newspapers, ad campaigns or on the facades of buildings, in the hope of bringing the public in closer contact with contemporary art. Collaboration with such companies is essential, because it allows projects to be carried though and guarantees the space required to promote and display them. The site’s graphics are minimal and highly stylized and seem almost a return to the very earliest types of interface which had a larger proportion of text to image and were very basic. The site serves as an important tool containing, as it does, a database of all the artists who over the years have taken part in initiatives organized by the museum. These include Vito Acconci, Christian Boltanski, Matthew Barney and all the projects carried out using various different media.

http://www.ciac.ca


Montreal’s international center for contemporary art, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organism directed by Claude Gosselin. The institute was set up with the aim of organizing art exhibitions and events. It’s next big project will be the second Montreal Biennial. The web-site, in English and French, not only puts together data about the center’s various activities, such as information on recent and current exhibitions together with text and images, but also publishes an e-magazine containing an exhaustive calendar of exhibitions taking place in Canada and many European cities, articles and an archive cataloguing back issues of the magazine, starting with the very first edition published in 1997.