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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... "

*Subscription services are available only to Southwestern students, faculty, and staff. Southwestern community members should contact the library's Reference Desk (512) 863-1549 for assistance.

For more information about Digital Art and Virtual Reality resources, call or email Dana Hendrix, (512) 863-1241.


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