"Histories of Internet Art" Website

[Anna Balint]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Alt-X Launches "Histories of Internet Art" Website
Contact: Kendall Pata kendall at altx.com
January 23, 2002

THE ALT-X NETWORK, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE FEATURING
INTERVIEWS WITH MAJOR NET ARTISTS

BOULDER, Colorado (January 23, 2002) -- The Alt-X Network, "where the
digerati meets the literati," has just released the "Histories of Internet
Art: Fictions and Factions" web site featuring seventeen video and email
interviews with international net artists including Mark Napier, Young
Hae-Chang Heavy Industries, Ben Benjamin of Superbad, Melinda Rackham, Lev
Manovich, Giselle Beiguelman, Heath Bunting, John F. Simon Jr., Erik Loyer
and many others. The site also includes a curated exhibition of 35
net-based art works, a section devoted to net theory, and a survey of the
new work being created by students working in the recently created TECHNE
lab. This easy-to-navigate site with its stunning design and exploratory
content is produced by undergraduate and Graduate students inside the
University of Colorado's Department of Fine Arts in conjunction with the
blurr lab and ATLAS.

The site is currently located at http://blurr2.colorado.edu/~hiaff

"The site is still very much in its infancy and yet in six short months,
the students have produced an incredible amount of content," said CU
Professor and TECHNE Faculty Director Mark Amerika. "This upcoming Fall,
the site, with the support of the University of Colorado and Alt-X, will
feature newly commissioned works of Internet art created by artists
selected for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, all of whom will be invited to
participate in the opening panel discussion at a major symposium we have
slated for September. The forum will be coordinated with Christiane Paul,
Adjunct Curator of New Media at the Whitney."

The Alt-X Network (www.altx.com) is one of the oldest surviving art and
writing sites on the net. It began as a gopher site back in early 1993 and
has since produced and distributed a vast array of content including the
Hyper-X online exhibition space, an artist ebook series, the "ebr" new
media forum, Alt-X Audio, Black Ice fiction, and various live net events.

TECHNE is a practice-based research initiative located inside the
University of Colorado's Department of Fine Arts whose primary goal is to
create a Technologically Enhanced / Conceptually Heuristic / Networked
Environment (TECHNE) that faculty and students use to investigate the most
efficient and rewarding ways to augment the creative process as it relates
to a digital arts practice.

blurr is an experimental center for digital innovation at the University
of Colorado underwritten by Omnicom. blurr's mission is to provide an
environment that challenges the usual distinctions and barriers between
disciplines within the university and also the traditional lines drawn
between industry and academe.

ATLAS is a campuswide initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder
and is dedicated to the understanding and application of information and
communication technology in curriculum, teaching, research, and outreach.

For more information on the "Histories of Internet Art: Fictions and
Factions" or other projects at Alt-X, please send email to
kendall at altx.com