Quasi-neutral, visually anthropological documentary manifested at Manifesta and Documenta.

"What I do is not really art, not really furniture," chairs from the throne to the unsitable.

Nonlinear systems - an introduction.

Some principles of nonlinear creative practice are here.

A Solar Circuit collaboration project is discussed on this page.

For research into nonlinear collaboration, follow this link.

Documentation of a nonlinear work installed in Tasmania's Museum and Art Gallery.

The ongoing dna debate - Dolly the sheep has problems.

Contemporary Polynesian artist sheyne tuffery.

factor 44 in Antwerp, the number 7 modification project.

The human genome project, with links to relevant sites.

In 1513 Leonardo asked a question, 464 years later, the answer is given.

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contribute to a global movement
Collecting MouseMiles won't get you a free plane flight, but it will help to move a model train around a track. And by clicking your mouse, you could be adding to an ambient sound installation representing global computer activity. MouseMiles and Clicks are two of Jonah Brucker-Cohen's interactive Desktop Subversibles - software art that encourages us to rethink desktop behaviours we take for granted. Other projects in this collection include ClipIt, providing a window into other computer users' copy-and-paste actions, and MouseTraces, creating visual art from desktop activity. Take a look around -- Brucker-Cohen's site contains many other intriguingly titled interactive projects such as PoliceState, IPO Madness and Crank the Web. Source: rhizome.org

http://www.coin-operated.com/ds

world's richest artist drives art world nuts
Pulling in US$100million per annum, Thomas Kinkade's Media Arts Group drives art world authorities to distraction. "To call [Thomas Kinkade's] style chocolate-boxy would be a serious slight to the world of confectionery illustration" says critic Mary Wakefiled. Kinkade uses acrylics like egg tempera, building layers on layers. Think like Maxfield Parish on the subject of English cottages blended by Disney and factory output. No, that doesn't seem severe enough. Still 100million US$ worth of buyers can't be all wrong... or can they?
http://www.thomaskinkade.com/

climate control: or how to predict the weather using a pig spleen audio/video/kinetic/machine/noise/network/ice art work by Ken Gregory. Using salvaged materials, new technology, the weather and custom software, Winnipeg artist Ken Gregory crafts a unique installation work centered around the exploration of the relationship between the weather and the human condition. In an unscientific way and with an artists creative eye Gregory looks at how this relationship is mediated by modern technology. Installation works include several microprocessor controlled kinetic sculptures, a video projection on ice utilizing satellite imagery, an animated machine performance trio, an interactive emotion as weather data collection kiosk , a projected clear packing tape collage and others.
http://www.gatewest.net/~kgregory/ClimateControl.html

sounds interesting...but you decide
OK, so ever had the thought gee, there's all this big news flying around, and at the same time, little events, like supermarket shopping are happening. So how could an art work convey that? Well, you could have two screens, the latest in animated and interface software, and on one screen dynamically pull content from CNN and on the other, have people log in with their trivia. Man walks dog.

If you visit this site, you'll be asked to download version 6 of Flash, from reputable software maker Macromedia. It won't hurt your computer, but you'll have to decide for yourself about the art work. http://www.typorganism.com/goodbadnews/

check out the ground zero proposals
What will replace the World Trade Centre towers? http://www.renewnyc.com

new director of british museum
In 1987, Neil MacGregor was appointed director of the National Gallery with no previous experience in the field. Now he moves on to Britain’s most challenging museum job, the British Museum, having gained national, even international fame as an outstanding director. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9778

oral history art projects
World-wide, oral history projects are increasing in number. The link that follows take you to a page of resources. NB: the first link in the list takes you to research methods; the third will get you to an Hawaiian site. http://www.taospaint.com/OralHistoryResearchMethods.html

the art interface
From Impressionism to molecular structures and ephemeral presences.. . a Sunday afternoon stroll along cyber space corridors takes a circuitous path to consciousness, via molecular art.

nonlinear systems
You may have read of nonlinear systems in various places - to get a grasp of what it's all about click this link. This page is a preliminary to a planned collaborative project at Solar circuit in Tasmania in February 2002.

who controls exhibitions in russia?
Morality and the boundary of art to society is an ongoing discussion. In Russia, a photograph of a model wearing the old russian flag is removed from exhibition. Not for the skin, but on account of use of the flag. What is acceptable in Russia, and who makes the decisions? Vladimir Gavrikov investigates.

the ultimate artist sellout
Ffrom socks to his computer (and it's sold) Michael Mandiberg is selling everything. eBay meets Duchamp (remember the guy who sold his blackness at eBay). Read about the project here

narrative tradition and online media bridged
Award winning net artist Erik Loyer showcases chroma, the follow up to the lair of the marrow monkey which won Loyer a 1999 Rockefeller Media Fellowship. Rather than being high tech, Loyer deploys low tech strategies "there is an economy of program design that is enforced at low bandwidths which can have very positive creative effects." Necessity as the mother of invention? - da Vinci would love it.

bio-robotic art
Stelarc, the Aussie who had butcher's hooks inserted in to his skin and was then lowered several stories, or hung there for a few hours, is featured at the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at The Nottingham Trent University. More recently, he has focussed on the external body, building and attaching to himself a third arm and then using three arms to write 'evolution' (three letters per arm).

in the wake of september 11th
Staff writer Matthew Rose writes a compelling review of the aftermath. What does September 11 mean for the art world?

The art world response to September 11th gradually takes form. Those images; the real causes.
http://www.artforum.com/index.php?pn=diary

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive host online discussion - The Social Life of Digital Art
The explosion of digital art has created a new social and economic environment within the arts community and culture at large. Increasing numbers of artists as well as presenters, collectors, media and tech industry partners, and audiences are the active agents finding their way through this new digital sub-culture. This event will track the new modes of operation being used to adapt in this new environment. How are digital artists surviving in a medium that is difficult to sell? Are presenters changing their own economic models? How are the larger artistic and curatorial professions measuring achievement? How are collectors responding to intangible and ephemeral art works? How does the unique relationship to the technology industry affect digital art? Are the audiences for digital art the same or different from traditional art audiences?
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/events/mediators/

hundertwasser toilet wins golden plunger
Austrian artist, architect, print maker and designer Friedrich Hundertwasser's public toilets have won a world award for best public loos.
http://www.thebathroomdiaries.com/GoldenPlungers.html

artist auctions his blackness at ebay.com
Keith Townsend Obadike auctioned his blackness online at ebay.com. The auction was scheduled to last from Aug 8-18 2001. After four days, eBay closed the auction due to the "inappropriateness" of the item. After 12 bids, his blackness reached its peak at $152.50. The project is archived at http://Obadike.tripod.com/ebay.html and at http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?2739. Rhizome was the source for this item and the one below.

dewey decimal numbers create 3D online data space
English digital artist Simon Biggs has put together an interactive 3D web space, where the multiple mouse over movements of individual users effects the whole. "The multiple 3D views of the data-space are montaged together into a single shared image, where the actions of any one viewer effects what all the other viewers see. If a large number of viewers are logged on together the information displayed becomes so complex and dense that it breaks down into a meaningless abstract space." Interestingly or not, some of the patterns resemble Douglas Hofstadter's G-plot.
http://hosted.simonbiggs.easynet.co.uk/babel/babel.htm

europe envy and myths of siberia
Two artist/commentators talking, each on the other side of the world: one in Siberia and the other New Zealand. The subject: the compelling pull of European culture. The issue: self expression. Contained in the discussion: how a culture sees itself and how Europe sees that culture.
letter from siberia

human clones weeks away - august or september 2001
The announcement by Italian fertility specialist Dr Severino Antinori that he intends proceeding with his human cloning trial, and producing a cloned human within weeks, has outraged the normally staid National Academy of Sciences (USA). It seems all hell broke loose after Antinori spoke. Not surprising really. It's seems even though the technology is not completely up to it, the inevitability of cloning is driving developments.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=205993&thesection=news&thesubsection=world

dance and sound reformatted for the web
We have all seen dance; and heard music; and seen the two combined. What happens when a sound/dance piece is reformatted for the web? Well, "the original performance was playful and conversational, the web piece is dreamlike and fragile." The link to this piece was found at wigged.net, but it can also be checked at: http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/remix.htm

Art 32 Basel - review edited by staff writer Matthew Rose.

keeping the peace - does art have a role to play as peace keeper in a violent world?

online, multimedia international: digi bodies
Given the new database technologies for biomedical imaging, what constitutes an individual, a self? Digibodies is a collaboration between two Canadian and two Hungarian arts organisations, curated by Nina Czegledy.
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is success all it cracked up to be?
Vladimir Gavrikov looks at creativity and money, focussing on the artistic practice of well known Russian artists. Talent, he concludes, is "a pain that lives inside an artist giving them no peace until it finds a way out."

the meaning of art
Monuments to tragedy and war represent perhaps the most meaningful encounter between art and the wider public. This is not because such monuments fulfill populist taste. Far from it, and it is clear the expression of grief and humanity touch deeply without recourse to sweetening the sentiment. Insite editor Kevan Nitzberg writes about art as memorial.

american art = cartoons, european art = serious?
"It all makes me think of the difference between American artists and Europeans, where the Americans are still quoting cartoon characters while the Europeans continue to dig into the Holocaust and capitalism’s commodification of art..." writes guest columnist ricardo bloch in a new letter from Paris. Bloch writes about a street art work by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschorn, in association with the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Duct tape, plastic and tin foil

concept of liberty upsets some french
Jean-Noel Laszlo 's installation in the Toulon-Liberté post office proves that the concept of liberty is still controversial.

contemporary polynesian art
Samoan New Zealander sheyne tuffery "my work celebrates the afakasi, the half-caste, that confusion of not fitting into either side, so inventing your own culture in art. I see my art as being visual symphonies of a futuristic Polynesia, the combination of human and machine in a primitive environment."

multiple identities: Candice Breitz
Eight video installations and photo series exploring the themes of pop culture, sexuality, feminism, racism and ethnicity by south African artist Candice Breitz, hosted by OK-centrum in Austria.
http://www.ok-centrum.at/english/e-page1.html

sci fi fantasy art comes of age
Insite writer Kevan Nitzberg on space age imagery.

human skin art
In american skin, Andrew Krasnow has transformed the real skin of white Americans (he mostly uses his own, however some future resource is on it's way) into works that examine the issues of dehumanization, iconography and taboo, arranged to engage spectators in an exploration of America's political process and its fixation upon the externally manifest identity of its citizens. Krasnow uses radical materials that deliver metaphors through the ability to shock.

money, generations and art
Aging generation X-er's, ex flower children who became yuppies, the rise and rise of photography - how did that happen again? From inside New York City, we get the low down.

cyborg manifesto: the joy of artifice
Coming to grips with nature and technology, "the cyborg is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity," a space where "... Nature and culture are reworked; the one can no longer be the resource for appropriation or incorporation by the other." Look for distorted boundaries, some approaching mutant condition. The exhibition is being held at Laguna Art Museum; the link given here is to the accompanying website - the artist's image and bio page.
http://www.cyborg-manifesto.com/artist_biographies.htm

letter from siberia
Masterpieces on chocolate wrappers and tea packets: is Russian culture up for grabs?

the unexplained explained... well sort of...
American Jonathan Horowitz at Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris reviewed by Matthew Rose the exhibition name my cat is an interactive, low-medium technology web enabled art show.

bent narrative
Tracey Moffat takes up two floors at the California Museum of Photography. Moffat, and Australian of Aboriginal descent (adopted and raised by white folk), likes to think of herself as "a director of photo-narratives... Im always hungry for an image... When I create something new, I work in a fever pitch of excitement. My hands shake. I need someone to move props and click the camera-button for me"
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/photography/moffatt/#

a mother's art they called porn
Tierey Gearon at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

from siberia
An exploration of what Siberian artists believe about the life of Western artists.

the ongoing saga of curating dogleg - the joy of council meetings
Curator and staff writer Robert Wornum tells all.

if you have seen kurt schwitter's merzbau, here's your virtual chance
Kurt Schwitter's Merzbau, an environmental installation in the artist's house in Hannover.

number seven modification project
Factor 44 in Antwerp hosts a show where 44 artisits are sent the same image, a fifties advertsing image. The sample of the modifications of the image can be found here.

they loved her, they hated her
Grandma Moses was loved by the masses and despised by the art world for her popularity. Consistently left out of reviews of American painting, a reassesment of her work and status is underway. 87 of the artist's most important works are on show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in the US.
http://www.nmwa.org/MEDIA/media2/moses.htm

art now: art and money online
The Tate in London features the work of artists who use the web.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/artnwnet.htm

russians go digital in a big way
In 2002 , a world-wide exhibition of computer graphics is planned to take place at the Pushkinskaya 10 Cultural Center in St. Petersburg. The Petersburg Biennale of Computer Graphics in Russia will bring together artists and galleries from all continents, with up to 1000 works on show. For more details contact Afanassy Pud at apud@yandex.ru.
http://www.pushkinsraja-10.spb.ru

reclaiming a place in the virtual world
The Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art brings together eight international emerging artists for an exhibition called comfort reclaiming a place in the virtual world.
http://www.contemporaryart.org/SpringComfort.htm

photodynamism
Photowhat? In the grand era of isms photodynamism was a term created by Italian Futruist anton giulio bragaglia to define the photographs of movement he made (along with his brother Arturo). The aim of these pioneering works was to induce 'visual vertigo' causing the image represented to move as far as possible from the photographic reproduction of things. The term was coined in 1911 and two years later the manifesto, of course, was published. The Esoterick Collection of Modern Italian Art in the UK is renowned for it's core collection of futurist works. The page takes a while to download completely, as all their data is on one page, but it's worth it.
http://www.estorickcollection.com/

the brooklyn does it again
The Brooklyn Museum of Art has again drawn anger and criticism for a religious image in one of it's shows. yo mama's last supper, a five panel photo work by Renee Cox features Christ as a nude female surrounded by twelve black disciples. Cox is noted for her overtly feminist work and the inclusion of this piece in committed to the image: contemporary black photographers (see link below) has been criticised as other images, more representative of the artist's work could have been selected.

what do..
David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Bill Woodrow, Richard Long, John Hoyland, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer have in common? The Tate Liverpool, where there's a century of modern British art on exhibition.
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ShowsInfo?id=298

an exhibition waiting to happen
Everybody knows of the influence of Japanese art on Monet. Yet until now, no one assembled an exhibition of Japanese woodblock master prints and Monet's paintings with the intention of providing an in depth analysis. Well, those Australians have now.
http://www.nga.gov.au/index.html

tradition and abstraction in russia
Kandinsky wasn't the first to make a completely abstract painting, but the first to formularise a complete approach based in abstraction. The Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta Milan, Italy exhibits a number of important works and the show includes images by Kandinsky's Russian contemporaries. Ends October 6.
http://www.mazzotta.it/fondazione/kandingl.html

94 black photographers
The Brooklyn Museum of Art presents committed to the image: contemporary black photographers, one of the largest exhibitions of living African American photographers. It will include ninety-four photographers, with each represented by two works. Ends April 29.
http://www.brooklynart.org/press/Default.htm

canaletto
Good when he was good, sadly went to pack in later years. However "... the figure of Canaletto was until recently pigeonholed into a very limited, historically false idea of him as the 'photographer-painter' or a mechanical reproducer of the reality around him, whereas his visions are considerably more intellectual and less phenomenal in origin than is habitually maintained. The exhibition includes vedute, capricci and engravings, as well as works by Carlevaris, Marieschi, Bernardo Canal and 'the other Canaletto,' Bernardo Bellotto."
http://www.cccb.org/indexsi.htm

"...not minimalism and not conceptual work (but) perceptual work..."
James Turrell isolates light, giving it form, depth and mass, by manipulating the properties of light and of human perception. Turrell occupies all seven of the galleries of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Arizona USA.
http://www.scottsdalearts.org/Turrell/Turrell2/Art_display.asp

have your cake and eat it here
Wayne Thiebaud at the Phillips Collection.
http://www.phillipscollection.org/html/exhibits.html#thieb

for all those who hate cockroaches...
Cockroaches. Nasty looking things. Simply crunching them underfoot seems too refined a death. For pure revenge how about this: take cockroach, coat in gaudy lacquer like colours, daub with painted daisies, create photomural. Artist Catherine Chalmers has done just that.
http://www.artnewsonline.com/currentarticle.htm?art_id=859

the rise and rise of pop art
Pop art is often thought to be an American invention, but the subject matter of Pop was well discussed in the 50's in the UK. The UK/US Pop Art connection is examined at the Menil Collection, ends May 13th. http://www.menil.org/exhibitions.html

klee and kiefer
Landscapes by Klee and Kiefer at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, ends May 6. However different their artistic expression may appear, common threads exist between the early watercolors of Kiefer and those of Klee. Both artists drew inspiration from similar sources. Scroll down this page on the Met's website:
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/index.asp

tate gallery, london
Tate Interview No.4 paula rego talks about her career spanning five decades that has featured dog women, Tasmanian Devils and dancing ostriches.
http://www.tatemag.com/pages/005%20Interview.html

david hockney
Find out where the drawing and technology debate is at.
http://www.specialtyarts.com/discuss-hockney.htm

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