fAf March 2003 Dancing about Architecture: Arts Resources Online by Dr Axel Bruns fineArt forum = art + technology netnews http://www.fineartforum.org http://www.cdes.qut.edu.au/fineart_online Art Resources This month sees a few additions to Art Resources including an essay, Dancing about Architecture: Arts Resources Online by Dr Axel Bruns. A lecturer at QUT, Bruns inquires into what resourcing the arts online means, providing a contextualising piece for the Art Resources' listing of useful sites and organisations around the world. http://fineartdev.cdes.qut.edu.au/art_resources/artresources_index.html This Month's TEXT :: Moya Baldry, Di Ball, Linda Carroli, Deena Larsen, Wendy Morgan and Jane Turner share the outcomes from a new media writing masterclass held last month. :: Adrian Miles presents the first part of his online tutorial in desktop vogging. :: Kathryn Smith writes about technological and cultural tensions in Johannesburg in her essay, Cultural Translations. :: Jose-Carlos Mariategui cruises through last month's Transmediale in Berlin. :: Jane Turner reviews Terry Flew's New Media: An Introduction. :: Gina Velli explores the website of The Banner Art Collective. :: Ryan Archer takes a look at Rosemary Laing's current exhibition which surveys her works of the last decade. :: Francesca Berger examines the stories and lives which intersect in the history of The Master of Frankfurt's 'Virgin and Child' via the exhibition, Pentimento. :: Linda Carroli wanders through two performance works-in-progress by choreographer, Clare Dyson. TEXT online at: http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n03/reviews/reviews_in... :: Gallery: Blackout and The A4 Refugee Project Launched last month, Blackout is a site created by Jenny Fraser. Blackout features information about and work by Australian Indigenous new media arts practitioners. Blackout was initiated at NISNMA (ANAT's National Indigenous School for New Media Artists) in 2002 when the participants formed the Indigenous New Media Arts Collective. Congratulations to all involved in this spectacular initiative. http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/cybertribe/blackout/index.html Also for the Gallery, Jane Gallagher, curator of the recent Brisbane-based exhibition, The A4 Refugee Project negotiated with several of the participating artists for permission for their works to be reproduced as downloadable PDFs. In conjunction with AUSTCARE, the exhibition presented over 100 A4 sized artworks at Metro Arts during Refugee Week. You are welcome to download these works, pin them on your wall, give them away and so on. However, please respect that as the intellectual property of each artist, they are protected by copyright. http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/current_index.html . . . . . SUBSCRIBE To subscribe to fineArt forum: Send an email message to: mailserv@qut.edu.au with the following text in the message: subscribe fineartforum To unsubscribe - the first line of your email should read: unsubscribe fineartforum GOT NEWS?? Send it to editor@fineartforum.org MORE INFO Nisar Keshvani: editor@fineartforum.org Linda Carroli: l2.carroli@qut.edu.au MISSION fineArt forum is a free, not-for-profit news and information service exploring the relationship between the arts, sciences and technology. fAf aims to inform new media arts and technology communities worldwide of the latest events, developments and opportunities. fineArt forum is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body http://www.ozco.gov.au. Additional support is provided by QUT Communication Design Department, School of Film and Media Studies - Ngee Ann Polytechnic Singapore and Mississippi State University. fAf is produced on behalf of the Art, Science and Technology Network (ASTN) http://www.astn.net. fAf and Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) are strategic partners. LEA is an online peer-reviewed journal published at MIT Press for the Leonardo Network http://www.leonardo.info.