alex galloway:

we've just added a new element to RHIZOME. all texts at RHIZOME are now
cross referenced by "keyword," "title," "place" and "name." so now it is
much easier to navigate *between* similar text objects. just look in the
box marked "Xref." if you click ...

KIDNAP HAS BEGUN.

2 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED BY BLAST THEORY AND ARE BEING HELD IN A
SECRET LOCATION.

THEY ARE BEING KEPT FOR 48 HOURS AND THEN RELEASED INTO A PRESS
CONFERENCE.

THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY ARE, OR WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT.

BUT YOU CAN WATCH THEM ...

Creative "CyGnet" Art Gallery on the Internet
http://www.shiseido.co.jp/cygnet/
Scheduled to start late July, 1998

CyGnet (Cyber Gallery Network), the gallery on the Internet which
Shiseido has newly introduced, is an experiment to explore the
possibilities of using the Internet for art. New works of this ...

Shelter + refuge + exclusion + security + condemnation + immunity

Call for Participation

Between two and four artists are required for the following project–

Asylum is an experimental digital project, part funded by Channel and
co-ordinated by Terry Taylor. The project will involve between three and
five artists, including Terry Taylor, working collaboratively, using ...

michael atavar's * * * * (four stars)

Summer continues on michael atavar's site with a piece of environmental
Shockwave–a virtual park where the viewer can create their own
interactive audio landscape–barking dogs, piano chords, distant storms,
city noise.

Site address ~ http://www.atavar.com/atavar/

* * * * this beautiful, shimmering, electronic haiku is a cumulative ...

ILLUMINATING BLAKE
The Blake Archives
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/

Two hundred years ago the illuminated books of visionary English poet
and printmaker William Blake were the "new media" art of their day. Not
only did Blake exploit the possibilities of the then new technologies of
lithography and steel ...

swedish critical art magazine–s.cr.a.m.

online at:

Simple Tricks
a review of Sawad Brooks's "Lapses & Erasures"
http://www.thing.net/~sawad/erase/

Do you like zoetropes? flickbooks? lenticular pictures? (you know, like
those kitsch winking jesus key-rings) camera lucidas?

There's something satisfying about these elegantly executed tricks,
something that seems simple, but has an effect all ...

We enjoyed the report on the "Curating The Net" seminar
(see "<a href="/cgi/to.cgi?t=1166">Curating
on the Edge of Chaos</a>").

First, a debate that discusses current web technologies in post 20th
Century cultured Europe seems ridiculous without plain-vanilla AC. It
also seems to us that ...

Three new projects at stadiumweb
http://www.stadiumweb.com

The internet continues to be a realm defined by its fluid nature.
Unstable and constantly changing audiences, producers and means of
production combine to propagate a multitude of strategies when proposing
and staging curated online projects by artists. Stadium, who have ...

Curating and exhibiting film and video in earlier decades. many museums
realized the difference between the slick, commercial produced works and
experimental but more likely to be lasting works of art. (that appear
ragged only to those unfamiliar with experimental uses of the media)

But as they begin to approach ...

Some of My Favourite Web Sites Are Art
http://www.alberta.com/unfamiliarart/

Project #10:

CANDY FACTORY
Takuji Kogo and Kazunari Horiguchi
http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/i/ga2750/
http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/i/ina-1744/

Japanese artists Takuji Kogo and Kazunari Horiguchi aim to use the Web
as an ...

Some of My Favourite Web Sites Are Art
http://www.alberta.com/unfamiliarart/

Project #13:

EVERY ICON
John F. Simon, Jr.
http://stadiumweb.com/everyicon/

Computer programmers have their own Big Bang Theory. For them the
universe began on January 1st., 1970–an origin they call the "epoch."
Because of ...

RTMARK invites RHIZOMErs to help initiate the new BBS at rtmark.com,
PROJECTS.

Post what you like, but we are especially eager for discussion of
corporate sabotage: means, ideas, history, speculation….

http://rtmark.com/
Bringing IT to YOU.

Some of My Favourite Web Sites Are Art
http://www.alberta.com/unfamiliarart/

Project #12:

BODIES INCORPORATED
Victoria Vesna
http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/bodiesinc

The more virtual we get, the more obsessed we become with the "real"
world, especially with bodies. This has been true for generations–think
of Mary ...

Some of My Favourite Web Sites Are Art
http://www.alberta.com/unfamiliarart/

Project #7:

Vanessa Beecroft
http://www.thing.net/~vanessa/

Vanessa Beecroft has achieved notoriety as an offline artist. Her
performances in galleries or museums feature young women dressed
uniformly in odd and scant clothing. They stand around ...