“The ArtAIDS LINK Project” by Nimmo
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Title:
- The ArtAIDS LINK Project
Program Title:
- Digital Atelier
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Description:
The ArtAIDS LINK is an art and communications project that uses the Internet and World Wide Web browsing tools as a medium for new forms of collaboration and interaction. The supported art forms are limited only by the availability of compatible file formats.
Art communities, which have traditionally not been part of a large-scale, international networked computing culture, are now accessing and exploiting the potential of fast communication links, developing new ways to collaborate, and forming new experiences, opportunities, expressions, and responses.
The ArtAIDS LINK’s digital canvas promotes sharing and participation, wherever there is Internet access. A central theme of the LINK is the response to AIDS, and everyone is encouraged to explore and apply creative inspiration to this worldwide crisis. Art and design educators are already using the ArtAIDS galleries to extend current patterns of learning and doing.
Visitors to the ArtAIDS LINK galleries can browse exhibits, download images, keep images for modification, and upload works for subsequent exhibition. Most of the LINK pages are dynamically generated. They provide opportunities to offer feedback and add additional art-site links. The gallery site is a World Wide Web server that deals with file conversion routines for thumbnails. Exhibits can be located at many sites around the world for retrieval by ftp or other means, depending on user location.
The LINK galleries promote a new way of viewing art and contributing to public art. They create a new forum for discussion and expand, explore, and study genealogical, visual, and emotional relationships.
Other Information:
Contributors
Andrew Nimmo
Sylvia Wilbur
Gee-Kay Wong
Mike Hopkins
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Peter Ride
Cambridge Darkroom Gallery
Geoff Henning
Crusaid
John Clancy
Chelsea College of Art and Design, The London Institute
Nina Pope
Sheep T. Iconoclast
The Bartlett School of Architecture University College London
Q Love
Rourke Associates
