Press Release 19 June 2002

Tate online presents latest netart Tate Online together with BT

Following the success of its netart commissions in 2000, Tate will
launch new works by artists Heath Bunting and Susan Collins on 1 July.
Tate's website, www.tate.org.uk, now registers over 1.5 million unique
users a year. As well as providing information on the four Tate
galleries and the Tate Collection, Tate Online, sponsored by BT,
continues to develop a distinct and identifiable programme, including
exhibitions of work created specifically for this medium.

Heath Bunting will develop a new work in a series that is currently
underway at www.irational.org/borderXing/. In this series, he carries
out border crossings in Europe, locating specific national boundaries
and undertaking walks that traverse them without interruption from
customs, immigration, or border police. The walks are documented with
notes and photographs. Bunting's walks recall the work of Hamish Fulton
and Richard Long and can be seen as contributing to the tradition in
conceptual art that takes as its subject themes of landscape and space.
Crucially though, these walks question political, economical and
juridical aspect of travel. The work will continue to develop throughout
the year.

Susan Collins has initiated a development programme for a Tate in Space.
At this stage of the programme, the Tate in Space website is the key
route through which members of the public can follow developments,
witness the architectural process, and follow the notional Tate
Satellite orbiting earth every 92.56 minutes. The site explores ways in
which a Tate in Space might extend visitor experience and engage new
audiences. Tate in Space online will act as an arena for debate and
reflection on the nature of art in space, raising questions about
cultural and institutional ambition and the very human desires to
observe and communicate.

Alongside these new works Tate has commissioned supporting texts.
Florian Schneider will discuss the work of Heath Bunting and Paul
Bonaventura will examine Susan Collins's project. Josie Berry will
provide a contextual overview for the works. These texts will be
available on the Tate site on 1 July 2002.

As a twenty-first century network, the Tate galleries and Tate Online
engage with the art of the past but also intervene in the debates and
practices of the present, through Tate's collection and displays, the
public events programmes and the exhibitions and commissions. The
website, powered by BT Openworld, has grown to be among the most
successful museum sites in the world, with visitors from more than 140
countries in 2001. Since BT and BT Openworld became Tate Online's
partners, visitor figures have almost doubled, with May 2002 registering
197,00 unique visitors, the highest figure to date.

For further information please contact Sioban Ketelaar Tate Press
Office, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG Call: 020 7887 8730/1 Fax: 020 7887
8729 Email: pressoffice@tate.org.uk Visit: www.tate.org.uk

Notes: Heath Bunting: Biography -
http://www.irational.org/cgi-bin/cv/cv.pl?member=heath

Susan Collins: Biography - http://www.susan-collins.net/SACbio.html





On 6/25/02 6:34 AM, "niki" <niki@nirvanet.net> wrote:

> The Tate has commisioned 2 net art pieces by Heath Bunting (border crossing)
> of irational and Susan Collins (Tate in Space)
>
> Launch date is 1st July.
>
> Pls see attached press release for incklusion in net art news.
> thanks,
> niki gomez
>