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Judy -------------Forwarded Message----------------- From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] To: Multiple recipients of list, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] Date: 11/29/99 3:09 PM RE: ARTERY: new online journal/forum accompanying ArtistsWithAids VIRTUAL COLLEC NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community November 29,1999 Artery: The AIDS-Arts Journal & Forum Edited by Robert Atkins Launching December 1, 1999 http://www.artistwithaids.org >From: "estate" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "David Green" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: As reported today in the New York Times - Artery - >Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:18:28 -0800 >Mime-Version: 1.0 Artery: The AIDS-Arts Journal & Forum Edited by Robert Atkins Launching December 1, 1999 www.artistwithaids.org The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS (a project of the Alliance for the Arts) is a national organization committed to preserving artworks created during the AIDS crisis so that they can be used by curators and historians to provide a subjective view of this time of crisis. In December of 1998, the Estate Project worked with partner organizations such as Visual AIDS, Visual AIDS Boston, Visual Aid San Francisco and the LA Gay and Lesbian Center to launch an extraordinary website at www.artistswithaids.org. The website and it's Virtual Collection were an excellent first step towards centralizing important information and images. Now, with the creation of Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum - an on-line journal and forum by critic and activist Robert Atkins - http://www.artistswithaids.org takes another important step forward. This site is, by its nature, democratic. The thousands of images available for viewing in the Virtual Collection, for example, are purposely not curated. The Estate Project has left it to the viewer - the general public, curator, historian, artist living with HIV - to make their own judgements about the information they are presented with. However, we do feel that it is necessary to bring critical voices and interpretation to this site both to discuss specific artworks you might see and to illuminate the larger issues that surround them. To that end, the Estate Project asked Robert Atkins to create an on-line journal and forum to enlarge the discussion surrounding art and AIDS while building a sense of community amongst those using the site. Artery's premiere issue contains an Artist in the Archives interview with Gregg Bordewitz - a videomaker and activist who is involved in the Estate Project AIDS Activist Video Preservation Program. Other features include a moderated Dialogue entitled "Plays, Lies and Ticket Sales," playwright/screenwriter Craig Lucas's and novelist/playwright Sarah Schulman's lively discussion about AIDS and theatre between (moderated by Michael Bronski); an online Symposium about the current states of AIDS-arts by Chris Dohse (dance), Stephen Holden (television and film), Eileen Myles (literature) and Nancy Princenthal (visual arts); and an illustrated Feature by Robert Atkins, "Off the Wall: AIDS and Public Art." In typical, online fashion, "Artery" is being launched in process. Not all of the interactive features or planned editorial resources have been developed yet. In the near-future, expect to see photo-essays, book reviews, photo-essays and community projects, a timeline of two decades' of AIDS-arts, as well as more of what's available now. We hope that you will come back to the site in 2000 for both new issues of Artery as well as new operating software allowing the Virtual Collection to accommodate a greater range of viewers. Robert Atkins is an art historian and writer who has been an innovator in the areas of both digital culture and AIDS activism. Currently, Atkins is a research fellow at Carnegie-Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry and art editor of the Media Channel. In 1995, he created TalkBack! A Forum for Critical Inquiry, the first American online journal about online art, and from 1996-98, was editor-in-chief of the Arts, Technology, Entertainment Network, a New York Times Company start up producing arts programming for television and the Internet. Since the beginning of the epidemic, Atkins has written widely about AIDS and in 1990 co-curated, "From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS," the first travelling museum exhibition surveying art about AIDS. He was also one of the four founders of Visual AIDS, the ten-year-old New York-based non-profit responsible for the annual Day Without Art, the Red Ribbon Project, and many other educational activities. ============================================================== NINCH-Anounce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The subjects of announcements are not the projects of NINCH, unless otherwise noted; neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit. 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