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this week's topic is Web Environments
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Is there such a thing as a reality we can only experience through the Net? To what extent is our response to work on the Net conditioned by experiences in the physical world? And what is the influence of other media, such as cinema, print and television? How do artists exploit the web's separation of viewer, content and author - by locating themselves on the border between the real and fictitious, and between the institutionally sanctioned 'truth' and their personal vision of the world? Should we look for intellectual and moral authenticity in net art, and what roles do access and interpretation play in our response to the work?
What is the nature of an 'event' on the web? Is it a good medium for performance? How do virtual artworks unfold in time and space?
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Tate in Space
the artist Susan Collins discusses issues around the BAFTA nominated Tate in Space project
Handmade Code
'real' handmade objects from the artist Simon Poulter
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audio-visual soundscapes and performances by the artist group squidsoup
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using the Internet and tele-robotics to solve a US migrant labour problem
www.mongrelx.org
find out what this influential artists' group has been up to
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www.mongrelx.org - Mongrel
"Mongrels make art about ourselves or about the life and thinking of people we meet. Sometimes we do this in order to think and feel better for ourselves. Sometimes we are creating a space for others to inhabit that thinking and feeling. This means we rarely operate as the core group. We prefer to work on a range of activities, individually or collectively. These can be with organisations, or other Mongrels.
The ability to plug into different cultures, skills, structures or ways of doing things means our art gets to stay fresh."Mongrel
With its core members Matsuko Yokokoji, Mervin Jarman, Richard Pierre-Davis and Harwood, Mongrel has made pioneering digital artworks that tackle issues of class, race and inequality. From www.mongrelx.org, view previous online projects such as Natural Selection - which subverts the use of a conventional search engine to provoke a debate on race and naturalisation - and Uncomfortable Proximity, in which Harwood gives his own interpretation of the official www.tate.org.uk website.
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Joe Magee's wonderful contribution to the field of net art
http://www.hypertribes.org.uk/hyperphilately/
A piece by Simon Poulter that worked as well on the Net as it did in the physical world - coincided with the new millenni
http://www.invisibleamerica.com
It's great to see a smart latino artist/film-maker use CNN style tactics to reveal the madness of George W. Bush and Co
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The 'factbook' is an online service on the CIA's official website. It reveals a lot about the way they view the world.
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