Greetings Museum-lers,
I thought the list might find these Web reviews of interest. They're from
the current issue of Intelligent Agent.
Robbin Murphy
Arte en Red
-->http://www.iua.upf.es/~baigorri/art/
"Arte en Red," maintained by Laura Baigorri, is a
directory covering contemporary art in general and
electronic art in particular. Updated monthly,
this (spider) web is a useful resource offering
excellent selections with categories ranging from
art centers, museums & galleries, art sites, and
artists, to magazines, research & education as
well as critical texts & debates.
Casa das Rosas
-->http://dialdata.com.br/casadasrosas
According to its manifesto, "Casa das Rosas"
--based in Sao Paulo--"faces the challenge and
challenges all": this virtual gallery strives
to translate and codify the language that will
pervade the leap to a new (electronic) civilization.
"Casa Das Rosas" is a space to watch and visit:
the site features interesting online exhibitions,
contests and Web-specific works (among the recent
projects was Eduardo Kac's Time Capsule). Not all
of the information at the site is available in
English.
Cold War International History Project
-->http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm
As part of the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., CWIHP
provides public access through this site to
historical materials pertaining to the Cold War
as well as new information recently obtained from
the former Communist bloc. A simple registration
procedure is required in order to enter the library
and discussion groups but once access is obtained,
the interface is extremely efficient and documents
are easily located by using a variety of index "views"
(keyword, subject, year, etc.) or the site's search
engine. The subject matter may be too specific for
the general public but anyone with even a casual
interest in Cold War politics will find this site
of great value.
Project Archelogos
-->http://www.archelogos.phil.ed.ac.uk/
Mastering the complex ideas of Plato or Aristotle
will never be easy but the goal of "Project
Archelogos"--funded by public and private sources
in Greece and Cyprus--is to make their concepts
more accessible to non-philosophers, particularly
advanced high school and university students. This
online database organizes philosophical arguments
into conceptual structures of interdependence; it
may be searched for academic analyses of ancient
texts as well as alternative readings of each
passage from different sources over the past two
thousand years. Visitors are currently introduced
to Plato's Protagoras through a multimedia application
called LogAnalysis that acts as a front-end to the
database. Though the shockwave demo version doesn't
function particularly well at this point it is still
an admirable attempt to use hypertext in a manner
that even Socrates might appreciate.
Truth is a Moving Target
-->http://www.thing.net/~parallel
"Truth may have died as an ideology or religion but
it still has to serve as a skeleton of our project
called 'life'," as Erwin Redl explains in the
introduction to his project. We still have to rely
on "certainties" to bridge the gaps between the
split-seconds, which is exactly what "Truth is a
Moving Target" does. On the background of a grid,
fleeting sentences--in almost random order and with
ambiguous meanings--take the form of an interactive
crossword puzzle and momentarily bridge gaps. Users
may click on the grid and influence how the piece
develops; if they don't provide any input, the
program code itself builds a constantly changing
grid of sentences. "Truth is a Moving Target" is
yet another take on the flexible structure of
meanings, which finds a perfect medium in the
Web with its randomness and possibilities of
linking and bridging distances.
Intelligent Agent is a quarterly print magazine
on interactive media in arts and education. The
next issue (vol. 2 no. 2) will be available
in bookstores throughout the US next week.
Selections from the articles featured in the
magazine are available at the Intelligent Agent
website: http://www.intelligent-agent.com
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