----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ------------------ Thanks, Peter, for making me aware of this magazine (which in fact our foresighted acquisitions librarian had already purchased for the library so that I could take it home last night). I guess there's a difference right there: the ones on the web you don't have to buy, but instead share the reading/viewing experience with a much larger audience.(Wasn't =22democracy=22 one of the core issues in early artists' book production?) Thanks again for your suggestion and the following is my humble compilation. (That saves me the effort to reply to all the people who were interested in it.) I hope most links are still active. Best, Doro http://www.mayhem.net/genitals http://www.hipi.com/keelhaul http://www.burningpress.org/gallery/selby/casthome.html http://jodi.org/-/ http://www.qis.net/=7Ejmar/alphabet.html http://www.art.uiuc.edu/ludgate/index.html http://bug.village.virginia.edu http://www.ssensorium.org/index.html http://www.stadiumweb.com http://adaweb.com http://www.sgg/ch/mullicam http://diacenter.org/closky http://www.king.dom.de/equator http://www.ave.ch/echo/lost.html http://www.documenta.de Some more related sites: http://www.deltanet.com/gallery/guide/artists/index.html http://www.elg.com/edith/book.html http://collectbooks.miningco.com http://www.guerillagirls.com/gg http://nunc.com http://www.diacenter.org/kos/home.html http://www.panix.com/=7Efluxus/ and of course http://www.dreamscape.com/pdverhey At 11:22 AM 1/21/99 -0800, you wrote: =3EDoro, =3E =3EI am not sure what the differences might be, if any, between =22virtual =3Eartists' books=22 accessed via the web and any other artwork that is = designed =3Eto be viewed via a computer. Specifically, I am thinking of the CD =3Emagazine, Artintact (Karlsruhe Cantz Verlag, 1994- ) which contains about= 4 =3Einteractive works per CD issue. The =22sequential (or any other = book-like) =3Emanner=22 process your refer to is established by the viewer as they = click =3Etheir way through the piece. In some cases the piece has a designed-in =3Esequencing, ala a book, a conversation, or a stroll. My point being that =3Emedia boundaries are becoming very blurred indeed, if in fact they exist = at =3Eall in these cases. How one wishes to define =22book=22, = =22sequential=22, or what =3Ewe mean by =22reading=22 will be, for collections like yours, challenging =3Eissues. If you have not seen the following I would recommend it. =3E =3ERegards, =3E =3EPeter Blank =3E =3ETITLE: Artintact =5Binteractive multimedia=5D : CD-ROMagazin = interaktiver Kunst =3E =3D artists' interactive CD-ROMagazine / ZKM/Zentrum fur = Kunst und =3E Medientechnologie Karlsruhe. =3E Art intact =3E Art int act =3E Other title: CD-ROMagazin interaktiver Kunst =3E Other title: Artists' interactive CD-ROMagazine =3EIMPRINT: Karlsruhe Cantz Verlag, 1994- =3EOTHER: Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe. =3ETOPICS: Video art--Interactive multimedia--Periodicals. =3E Installations (Art)--Interactive multimedia--Periodicals. =3E Art, Modern--20th century--Interactive multimedia--Periodicals. =3EGENRE: CD-ROM. =3E German and English. =3E Summary: Works by professional audio and visual media artists = are =3E featured. Artintact combines the traditional print format = with CD- =3E ROM technology where scholarly writings and illustrations on paper =3E accompany and exhibit the interactive art works presented on = the =3E disc. =3E =3EAt 12:52 PM 1/21/99 -0600, you wrote: =3E=3EI am currently compiling a list of virtual artists' =22books=22 for = our =3E=3Epatrons. To be more specific: I'm not interested in mere depictions = of =3E=3Eartists' books on a web site, but on text/imagery that uses web = technology =3E=3Ein a somewhat sequential (or any other book-like) manner. =3E=3EI know this is a rather futile attempt as most of them will only be up= for =3E=3Ea limited amount of time, but I can always delete defunct sites and = add new =3E=3Eones as they come. =3E=3E =3E=3ESo far I have about 15 addresses (which I gladly share with anybody =3E=3Einterested in the field) and would gratefully add any suggestions that= you =3E=3Ecan offer. Have you seen anything interesting recently? =3E=3E =3E=3EIs there a good way to search for this type of material? (Obviously = using =3E=3E=22virtual=22 and =22book=22 will get me anywhere except to my desired= destination=85) =3E=3E =3E=3EMy email address is below. Thanks for any help. =3E=3E =3E=3EDoro =3E=3E =3E=3E =3E=3EAnneDorothee Boehme, Library Materials Specialist =3E=3EJoan Flasch Artists' Book Collection =3E=3EJohn M Flaxman Library/School of the Art Institute of Chicago =3E=3E37 S Wabash Av =3E=3EChicago, Il 60603 =3E=3E =3E=3E312-899-5098 ( voice ) =3E=3E312-899-1465 ( fax ) =3E=3E =3E=3Eaboehme=40artic.edu =3E=3Ehttp://www.artic.edu/saic/flaxman/flasch.html =3E-------------------------------------------------------------- =3EPeter P. Blank 102 Cummings Art Bldg. =3ELibrarian Stanford, CA 94305-2018 =3EArt =26 Architecture Library (650) 725-1038 =3EStanford University fax 650-725-0140 =3E ppb=40leland.stanford.edu =3E-------------------------------------------------------------- =3E =3E =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D== 3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3= D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D=3D=3D AnneDorothee Boehme, curator/librarian Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection John M Flaxman Library/School of the Art Institute of Chicago 37 S Wabash Av Chicago, Il 60603 312-899-5098 ( voice ) 312-899-1465 ( fax ) aboehme=40artic.edu http://www.artic.edu/saic/flaxman/flasch.html