[spectre] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Histories of Internet Art: Fictions and Factions

[kendall@altx.com]

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>>  >IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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>>  >Alt-X Launches "Histories of Internet Art" Website
>>  >Contact: Kendall Pata kendall@altx.com
>>  >January 23, 2002
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>>  >THE ALT-X NETWORK, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS AT THE
>>  >UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE FEATURING
>>  >INTERVIEWS WITH MAJOR NET ARTISTS
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>>  >BOULDER, Colorado (January 23, 2002) -- The Alt-X Network, "where the
>>  >digerati meets the literati," has just released the "Histories of Internet
>>  >Art: Fictions and Factions" web site featuring seventeen video and email
>>  >interviews with international net artists including Mark Napier, Young
>>  >Hae-Chang Heavy Industries, Ben Benjamin of Superbad, Melinda Rackham, Lev
>>  >Manovich, Giselle Beiguelman, Heath Bunting, John F. Simon Jr., Erik Loyer
>>  >and many others. The site also includes a curated exhibition of 35
>>  >net-based art works, a section devoted to net theory, and a survey of the
>>  >new work being created by students working in the recently created TECHNE
>>  >lab. This easy-to-navigate site with its stunning design and exploratory
>>  >content is produced by undergraduate and Graduate students inside the
>>  >University of Colorado's Department of Fine Arts in conjunction with the
>>  >blurr lab and ATLAS.
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>>  >The site is currently located at http://blurr2.colorado.edu/~hiaff
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>>  >"The site is still very much in its infancy and yet in six short months,
>>  >the students have produced an incredible amount of content," said CU
>>  >Professor and TECHNE Faculty Director Mark Amerika. "This upcoming Fall,
>>  >the site, with the support of the University of Colorado and Alt-X, will
>>  >feature newly commissioned works of Internet art created by artists
>>  >selected for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, all of whom will be invited to
>>  >participate in the opening panel discussion at a major symposium we have
>>  >slated for September. The forum will be coordinated with Christiane Paul,
>>  >Adjunct Curator of New Media at the Whitney."
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>>  >The Alt-X Network (www.altx.com) is one of the oldest surviving art and
>>  >writing sites on the net. It began as a gopher site back in early 1993 and
>>  >has since produced and distributed a vast array of content including the
>>  >Hyper-X online exhibition space, an artist ebook series, the "ebr" new
>>  >media forum, Alt-X Audio, Black Ice fiction, and various live net events.
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>>  >TECHNE is a practice-based research initiative located inside the
>>  >University of Colorado's Department of Fine Arts whose primary goal is to
>>  >create a Technologically Enhanced / Conceptually Heuristic / Networked
>>  >Environment (TECHNE) that faculty and students use to investigate the most
>>  >efficient and rewarding ways to augment the creative process as it relates
>>  >to a digital arts practice.
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>>  >blurr is an experimental center for digital innovation at the University
>>  >of Colorado underwritten by Omnicom. blurr's mission is to provide an
>>  >environment that challenges the usual distinctions and barriers between
>>  >disciplines within the university and also the traditional lines drawn
>>  >between industry and academe.
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>>  >ATLAS is a campuswide initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder
>>  >and is dedicated to the understanding and application of information and
>>  >communication technology in curriculum, teaching, research, and outreach.
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>>  >For more information on the "Histories of Internet Art: Fictions and
>>  >Factions" or other projects at Alt-X, please send email to
>>  >kendall@altx.com
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