[curatorial.net] FW: D.V.A. turns 10! and offers new collective tools

[Joasia]

FYI

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From: Image Science <image.science at donau-uni.ac.at>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:37:29 +0000

DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART TURNS 10!
WITH NEW SUBMISSION SUPPORT & NEW ARTIST SPECIALS

As pioneer in the field, the collective Database of Virtual Art (DVA)
has been documenting the rapidly evolving digital installation
art since 1998. www.virtualart.at

Beside new artist specials, which will be joined by editorial features,
The DVA offers henceforth an innovative submission process: Collective
documentation is supported by simplified *assist tools* to help upload
information for publication in minutes.

Artists, and at this point an additional 282 theorists and
mediaarthistorians, are members of the collective DVA-Archive. Monthly
evaluated user statistics and open source technology support the collective
process. The DVA received public support from various foundations, allowing
its research-oriented, complex overview of immersive, interactive, telematic
and genetic art to be developed in cooperation with known media artists,
researchers and institutions of the field.

The DVA is based on the ³concept of expanded documentation².

Currently it contains thousands of work descriptions and digital
documents, videos, technical data, institutions and bio-bibliographical
information. As one of the richest resources online, with a systematic
thesaurus, the scientific project was from its beginning a university
based endeavor.  

 www.virtualart.at

We encourage your remarks and suggestions!

Anyone dealing with Media Art who has information or data to share
is encouraged to register with  sabine.lindner at donau-uni.ac.at

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____ADVISORY BOARD_____Database_of_Virtual_Art_______
Roy ASCOTT, Beryl GRAHAM, Erkki HUHTAMO, Jorge LA FERLA,
Gunalan NADARAJAN, Christiane PAUL, Martin ROTH, Steve WILSON

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Beside the Database of Virtual Art - GOETTWEIG-ONLINE will be up
this month. The Print Collection contains 30.000 original prints
from Renaissance to Barock. Connecting these archives will provide
our field with an open archive contextualizing media art in art and
image history.

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The DVA is partner of:
RE:PLACE  http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace & www.mediaarthistory.org
DANUBE TELELECTURES : www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures

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