The Great Wall of China, online version of the CD-ROM. Check the rest
of Simon Biggs' site for some extraordinary experiences
http://www.easynet.co.uk/simonbiggs/wall.htm
Mark America's GRAMMATRON, interactive + hypertext = hyperactive fiction
http://www.grammatron.com/index2.html
Indra's Net, hypertext poetry with live syntactic engines by John Cary
http://www.demon.co.uk/eastfield/in/inhome.html
Komar and Melamid's homepage, documenting their immense artwork polling
profiles of national taste across the internet and producing artworks on
the basis of the polls. This is housed at the Dia Art Centre server, where
many other artists online projects have been launched
http://www.diacenter.org/km/index.html
Miroslaw Rogala's homepage, documenting large-scale public interactive
artworks and performances
http://www.mcs.net/~rogala/home.html
Jodi: a two-handed and ever-changing reflection of net culture back
on itself. Perhaps the one online art project everyone agrees is remarkable
and prescient. Is this the degree zero of net.art?
http://www.jodi.org/
Shu Lea Cheang's latest web project "Brandon"
http://brandon.guggenheim.org
Landfill, Mark Napier's project to rid the web of unwanted files by
allowing them to rot onscreen; like Jodi and ebstalker, a genuine internet
project, and one that like them questions the sense of the word 'art'
http://www.potatoland.org/landfill
The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, the UK's premiere electronic
arts agency, home of Video Positive and ISEA98
http://www.fact.co.uk/home.htm
Adaweb, a major international site housing a number of artists projects
http://adaweb.com/adaweb/project/one.html
irational.org, collaborative site for interventionist artworks online,
including WebStalker, a radical artwork in the form of an alternative browser,
one of the most entertaining, intelligent and challenging works of digital
art so far.
http://www.irational.org/
Iniva, the Institute for the New International Visual Arts, hosts artists
pages including major work by Keith Piper
http://www.iniva.org/
The Thing, an artists server
http://www.thing.net/
Postmasters Gallery, New York base for electronic artists
http://www.thing.net/~pomaga
New Media Centre projects at the ICA, London
http://www.newmediacentre.com/ica.html
Ljubljana Digital Media Lab
http://www.ljudmila.org
Head-Space
http://www.head-space.org
Redundant Technology Initiative
http://www.lowtech.org
yourserver
http://www.yourserver.co.uk
ASCI, Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. Annual awards for digital
arts and journalism
http://www.asci.org
stadiumweb
http://www.stadiumweb.com
The Museum of Contemporary Art Montreal gateway to media arts on internet,
an excellent start point
http://Media.MACM.qc.ca
Hubble Space Telescope overview, linked to some of the most extraordinary
digital images ever produced. They raise immense questions for theories
of representation and realism in the digital media.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/HSToverview.html
Odden's Bookmarks, gateway to cartography collections online
http://kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl/html/staff/oddens/oddens.htm
Great GIS net sites, gateway to online collections, shareware and software,
discussions of Geographical Information Systems, the digital mapping technology
discussed in Chapter 2
http://www.hdm.com/gis3.htm
One of several gateways to the Visible Human Project. The whole project,
which imaged the body of an executed murderer using the full array of medical
imaging technologies, can only be accessed on mainframes that have licenses
to use the entire archive for educational purposes, but some staggering
images are available.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
Artificial Life Online, the house organ of the Santa Fe Institute, home
of a-life and chaos theory, with links to other impressive projects like
Thomas Ray's Tierra.
http://alife.santafe.edu/
Art History and the World Wide Web, a remarkable listing of links to
major online holdings of images and collections as well as critical resources
maintained for CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) by Brian
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/chart/duffy2.html
Encyclopedie: a test site for a massive project to provide the entirety
of Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopedia online, including plates. Roland
Barthes' essay on the plates is a masterpiece of critical analysis, and
provided a major launch point for the argument that reason and irrationalism
are impossible to separate. So far only Volume One is online, and it is
in the original Frencvh, but it provides the opportunity to study the amazing
anatomy plates in excellent reproductions.
http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/mark/ENC_DEMO/
Texas.net Museum of Art Archive (html mirror), with a wonderrful collection
of images arranged by date and artist, one of the few top sites not mentioned
in Art History and the World Wide Web
http://209.132.4.118/art/index.html
WWWomen! 'The Premier Search Directory for Women Online' claims the
banner, which is pretty much what it is. Invaluable for research in cyberfeminism
http://www.wwwomen.com/
Film-Philosophy Electronic Salon, high level disussion on film topics
and excellent links to essays and publications online
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy/files/
SITES DEALING WITH DIGITAL AESTHETICS
Rhizome, an e-mail discussion list available raw or in weekly digest
form, archived at
http://www.rhizome.com
Nettime, online e-mail discussion group engaging with the global politics
of the net as well as aesthetic issues, archived at
http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/
Médiologie: French language site developing the mediological
analyses of Régis Debray
http://www.ina.fr/CP/Mediologie/index.htm
Speed: An Electronic Journal of Media, Technology and Society: one of
the many online research journals, not only one of the best, but with an
excellent directory of other online cyberstudies journals
http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed/
Critical Art Ensemble, site developed by the artists collective who
authored Electronic Civil Disobedience and The Electronic Disturbance
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~sbarnes/
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker's homepage, the Canadian essayists and
media tyros keeping the flame of MacLuhan alight in Montreal. Also home
of the e-zine C-Theory.
http://ctech.concordia.ca/krokers/ctheory.html
Screen Studies Online, the homepage for the author's department at Liverpool
John Moores University, including the Third Text homepage and extensive
links
http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/mccscubi/screen.html
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