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InLiquid
Art and Design Network
Philadelphia,
PA
InLiquid.com
Philly-based
InLiquid is all about the art: presenting work through its
website; facilitating dialog between artists and the public;
sponsoring exhibitions and other events; and generally
advocating for the creative life in a world that often seems
more than happy to dismiss the arts as a luxury, and artists
as marginal eccentrics. The InLiquid site is filled with legal
and business advice for artists, information on grants and
fellowships, essays, and plenty of other resources (as well as
more than 120 artists’ portfolios). Our kind of folks.
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CIMI Consortium
The
CIMI website
CIMI, the
Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum
Information, might sound like a collection of techno-happy
eggheads—and maybe it is. But these eggheads are also,
in their way, artists and curators, fascinated by the ways
that information about our cultural heritage, long held
captive in museums and other repositories of genius, can be
shared and enjoyed more easily by anyone and everyone. They
focus on “the best means for cultural heritage to spread in
the digital realm,” and if that’s not a worthy endeavor—not
only for the smarties at CIMI, but for all of us—then what is?
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Location One
26 Greene Street,
NYC
(212)
334-3347
The
Location One site
Aiming to
foster the arts through the melding of new and old media, this
non-profit “portal opening onto convergent artistic content”
is heavily techno-enabled. Insisting that live performances
ought to be just as “interactive” as new media, Location One
commissions collaborations between traditional creative types
(painters, sculptors, dancers) and computer, video, and new
media artists. Their manifesto might be a little art-speak
earnest (“We are bringing together creativity along the two
standards that have governed the history of human
expression...”), but their hearts—and tech—are in the right
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ShitBegone Paper
PO Box 390683
Cambridge,
MA
(617)
452-3638
The
website
The artist Jed Ela
wants to start the “Toilet Paper Revolution”—one soft, 2-ply
step at a time. His long-term art project, ShitBegone Paper,
isn’t just some clever, self-satisfied art hoax: instead, it’s
“an everyday product which goes beyond basic utility to engage
the customer’s intellect and sense of humor.” In short, this
is handy art with a thousand-sheets-worth of attitude. The
ultimate goal? Ela seeks nothing less than “the imposition ...
of a new and more-honest marketing schema on the North
American toilet tissue market,”—to which we can only say, hey,
it’s about time. In Ela’s own words: “Like it? Then use it!”
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Zenith Media Lounge
(at The New Museum)
583
Broadway, NYC
The
New Museum of Contemporary Art website
Nestled in the basement
of the New Museum, Zenith is the city’s only museum space
devoted exclusively to new media exhibitions and programs. The
space’s design—complete with multimedia computer stations,
screening areas, and a separate room for panel discussions or
installations—encourages exploration, and allows for easy
access to diverse, tightly curated projects in video, digital,
and other media. What’s more, it does so in a decidedly
non-intimidating setting. For those accustomed to interactive
new media presented in hushed, darkened rooms, the Lounge
provides an antidote: an inviting atmosphere that’s at once
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