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Posted Feb. 13 2001 20:00

animate! call for entries 2001

animate! commissions innovative animation for television and is now
online. During its first decade the scheme has funded 49 projects and
acquired an international reputation for supporting innovation,
experimentation and diversity in animation.

animate! is now commissioning a new slate of risk-taking personal
projects for television. These new works will ...

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Posted Feb. 11 2001 20:00

Report--'Telematic Connections' in San Francisco

Several hundred digital art mavens descended upon the San Francisco Art
Institute last Wednesday evening to celebrate "Telematic Connections:
The Virtual Embrace," a travelling exhibition that explores artists' use
of the global communications network.

The show, which was curated by Steve Dietz of the Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis ...

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Posted Feb. 11 2001 20:00

'World of Awe'--a review

World of Awe: a traveler's journal
http://www.worldofawe.net/
reviewed by Valerie Lamontagne

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Looking for a treasure, lost in the desert. These seem like appropriate
metaphors for anyone spending a good part of their day browsing on the
"information" highway. "World of Awe 1.0" [WOA] produced by Yael ...

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Posted Feb. 6 2001 20:00

Rhizome Remix @ SFMOMA

Dearest Rhizomers:

For those of you who find yourselves in the Bay Area this week…

Please join me this Thursday, February 8 from 6:00-8:30pm in the Schwab
Room at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for Rhizome Remix, an
evening of new media art and cocktails featuring ...

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Posted Feb. 5 2001 20:00

'I am a communication artist'--Interview with Nam June Paik

[Nam June Paik has been labeled the "father of video art." What is much
less known is that he was not only the creator of the much-abused term
"telecommunication superhighway," but also among the first to use
telecommunication satellites for artistic exchange. His satellite
performances "Good Morning Mr ...

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Posted Feb. 4 2001 20:00

ISEA ANNOUNCEMENT

ISEA (the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) is currently
transforming its organizational structure. Collaborative efforts with
groups throughout the world will replace the single headquarters that
previously was in Montreal.

The ISEA Board of Directors invites proposals from arts centers,
universities, and other non-profit organizations who would like to host ...

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Posted Feb. 4 2001 20:00

Jorn Ebner - Life Measure Constructions

New Media Scotland presents:

Life Measure Constructions, a new internet work by Jorn Ebner.

http://www.lifemeasure.org

The artist invites the viewer to create their own worlds on the web. An
interactive electronic drawing, Life Measure Constructions allows us to
free our imaginations and make decisions as to how ...

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Posted Feb. 4 2001 20:00

John Klima at Postmasters

February 17 - March 24
JOHN KLIMA "Go Fish"

Postmasters Gallery is pleased to announce John Klima's first solo
exhibition. Titled Go Fish, the show will consist of interactive media
installations connecting computer gaming and real life consequences.

John Klima will also be exhibiting at the Whitney Museum exhibition
"Bitstreams" (March ...

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Posted Feb. 4 2001 20:00

Art Now--Art and Money Online

Art Now–Art and Money Online
Tate Britain
6 March - 3 June 2001
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/artnwnet.htm

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"Art and Money Online" comprises three specially commissioned works of
art, each in different ways concerned with the impact of
commercialisation on the Internet. The rapid growth in the ...

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Posted Feb. 4 2001 20:00

Lite Show Call for Entries

CALL FOR ENTRIES – LITE SHOW, a project of the Boston Cyberarts Festival

LOW-BAND IS THE WAY!

Still using a dialup modem? You're not the only one getting older while
that fat file loads. In a world where everyone needs a bigger pipe,
bandwidth is at once an important political ...

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Posted Feb. 1 2001 20:00

Perl is My Medium--An Interview with Lisa Jevbratt

[Lisa Jevbratt is an artist and teacher based in San Jose, California.
She is a member of C5 (http://www.c5corp.com/) and has created several
Internet artworks including the Stillman Project hosted by The Walker
Art Center web site. On Thursday, February 8th, Lisa gave a presentation
at the ...

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Posted Jan. 31 2001 20:00

Interferences Festival, Belfort France--a report

The International Festival of Multimedia Urban Arts
December 14th - 20th, 2000
Belfort, France
http://www.interferences.org

This multimedia and digital art festival is an ambitious and visionary
undertaking organized by the Pierre Schaeffer Center (CICV) of France
and funded by the French Ministry of Culture. Over 350 artists from ...

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Posted Jan. 29 2001 20:00

Signals--An Interview with Germaine Koh

[Germaine Koh is a conceptual artist from Canada. Her work was recently
included in La Biennale de Montreal 2000 and will be featured in
upcoming shows at both the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver and
Plug-in Inc. in Winnipeg. This interview deals with a recent site-
specific radio project installed ...

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Posted Jan. 25 2001 20:00

Snap to Grid--book review

"Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures"
by Peter Lunenfeld
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000)

The command "snap to grid" derives from a process in computer graphics
whereby freehand composition is quantized, or "snapped," to an imaginary
Cartesian grid. Like rounding fractions to the nearest ...

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Posted Jan. 25 2001 20:00

review of LOT/EK at Henry Urbach Architecture gallery

[LOT/EK is an architecture studio based in New York City. Their aim is
to blur the boundaries between art, architecture, entertainment and
information. Here, David Hunt reviews a recent LOT/EK exhibition called
"Mixer" installed at the Henry Urbach Architecture gallery.]

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LOT/EK
"Mixer"
Henry Urbach Architecture gallery
November ...

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Posted Jan. 24 2001 20:00

Interview with Prema Murty

[Prema Murty is one of the founders of the Brooklyn, New York-based
performance group Fakeshop. Fakeshop are well known for their
performances in which a poetic use of the CUseeme software and
environment is most striking. Other Fakeshop members have been fellow
founder Jeff Gompertz, Eugene Thacker and Ricardo Dominguez ...

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