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 If you're interested in subscribing to the Intelligent Agent print magazine, please see the information below: INTELLIGENT AGENT Hyperactive Corporation P.O. Box 661 New York, NY 10012 (+1) 212-462-9033 http://intelligent-agent.com [log in to unmask] To subscribe to the INTELLIGENT AGENT magazine: SINGLE ISSUE: $ 5.00 Domestic: $19.00 one year (4 issues) -- $ 36.50 two years (8 issues) Foreign (airmail): $34.00 one year, $ 46.50 two years. To subscribe phone: (+1) 212-462-9033 -- 1-888-64AGENT --> e-mail: [log in to unmask] or send a check to Hyperactive Corporation P.O. Box 661 New York, NY 10012 _____________________________________________________ ROBBIN MURPHY [log in to unmask] 426 Broome Street, NYC 10013 212-925-1885 <i> i o l a </i> http://artnetweb.com/iola/