Subject
Guide: Digital Art and Virtual Reality
The following links provide further
adventures in the intersecting worlds
of technology and the arts.
Active
Worlds requires a software download
(free). After downloading and installing the
software, open it by clicking on the "AW" icon
on your desktop -- you have now become a tourist
within Active World! You begin at the Gateway
... stay here and explore this new world for
a bit. For those of you anxious to go straight
to D.A.A.P., click on the "worlds" tab,
scroll down until you find the D.A.A.P. world,
then click on D.A.A.P. TA-DA!
adaweb
One might consider navigating this site containing
exhibitions of art designed for the Web as performance
art .
artnetweb
"... is a network of people and projects investigating
new media in the practice of art. [It] has always been more
of an idea than a website and has evolved over the past six
years."
David
Rumsey
Guggenheim
Virtual Museum
Leonardo
On-Line
"...serves the international art community by providing
a channel of communication for artists and others interested
in the arts, with an emphasis on artists who use science
and developing technologies in their work"
The
Louvre Museum
National
Endowment for the Arts
"The arts reflect the past, enrich the present, and
imagine the future. The National Endowment for the Arts,
an investment in America's living cultural heritage, serves
the public good by nurturing the expression of human creativity,
supporting the cultivation of community spirit, and fostering
the recognition and appreciation of the excellence and diversity
of our nation's artistic accomplishments."
New
York Times -- Arts At Large
a collection of articles "... on the intersection
of technology and the arts, including Web-based art
exhibits, interactive music, hypertext fiction and
other expressions of digital creativity."
Peter
Murphy's Virtual Scenes
Photography meets Virtual Reality! For those new to
VR photography, here's a bit of advice : after a picture
loads, move your mouse onto the picture, left click
and hold, move mouse. For more fun, press the "SHIFT" key,
then try the "CTRL" key. [Note: this site
requires Quicktime(tm) and a Live Pictue Zoom(tm)it!.
Both available as free downloads from this site.
Rhizome
"is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering
communication and community in the field of new media art.
... [Our] services constitute a comprehensive resource for
information and critical writing about what's going on at
the intersection of emerging technology and contemporary
art."
The Sculptors Forum
Sculpture
Space, Inc.
STELARC
This site may load slowly, but is worth waiting for.
It "...is an Australian-based performance artist
whose work explores and extends the concept of the
body and its relationship with technology through human/machine
interfaces incorporating the Internet and Web, sound,
music, video and computers."
Varo
Registry of Artists
WebMuseum
"The WebMuseum was not made as part of any official
or supported project. I decided to start working on this
exhibit because I felt more artistic stuff was needed on
the Internet ... No support, no funding, no manpower: the
WebMuseum is a collaborative work of its visitors contributing
to expand and improve the WebMuseum."
World
Wide Arts Resources
" ...offers the definitive, interactive gateway to all
exemplars of qualitative arts information and culture on
the Internet. Artists, museums, galleries, art history, arts
education, antiques, performing arts ranging from dance to
opera, classified ads, resume postings and more can be can
be accessed... " |
