Re: Syndicate: [Fwd: Request for help for Whitney project]

[martha rosler <navva@earthlink.net>]

my, my, a history already, and only just borned. how sweet of these
institutions to take netart under their wing.

con-GRAT-y-lations!
martha rosler

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>To: "Vesna, Victoria" <vesna@arts.ucla.edu>
>From: Christiane Paul <paulc@inx.net>
>Subject: Request for help for Whitney project
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>Hi,
>it would be great if you could help us with a project (a "history" of net
>art) for the artport site by submitting info about your work. Detailed
>instructions are below...
>Your help would be very much appreciated!!
>Best,
>Christiane
>
>==============================================================
>Martin Wattenberg is currently working on an "Idealine" for the Whitney's
>artport website. The "Idealine" is meant to be a map of net artworks
>created over the past six years -- visualizing a "history" of net art in
>terms of the ideas and concepts the works are based upon. A crucial aspect
>of the project is the idea of context and visualization of
>relations/thematic connections between net artworks. The map is a
>visualization of a database that has been created for this project.
>
>Because no one understands a work's context better than the artist, we're
>appealing to the net art community to help us create our database. We've
>set up an open page on Quickbase, an online data center, which you can use
>to add information about yourself, your art, and its relation to other
>works of net art. We're hoping that you can add your data and please feel
>free to send us your comments on how it might be improved ("wattenberg"
><elzzup@rcn.com>).
>
>Here are step-by-step instructions:
>[Instructions always make it look complicated but this is a pretty easy
>process, which you probably would figure out without any help.
>Nevertheless, PLEASE READ THROUGH THIS WHOLE MESSAGE in order to avoid
>possible confusion]
>
>
>1. Log on to Quickbase.
>
>	a. Go to http://www.quickbase.com
>	b. Click the large button that says "sign in and register".
>	c. Sign in with "idealine" as both username and password.
>
>2. Add yourself to the Artist database.
>
>	a. Click on "Artist" in center gray listing table.
>	b. Click "Artist list, with ID numbers" from menu at left.
>		(Are you on the list already? If so, skip to Step 3.)
>	c. If not, click "Add record" in the top gray menu.
>	d. Enter your information and click the "save" button.
>
>3. Add your artwork to the Artwork database.
>
>	a. To return to the main page, click on "My Quickbase" at top
>	   right menu.
>	   (You may want to do this in a new browser window, because
>
>	   it's useful to see the artist list later -- you might need the
>artists' ID#s)
>	b. Click on "Artwork" in center gray listing table.
>	c. Click "Artwork list, with ID numbers" from menu at left.
>	   (Is your work on the list? If so, skip to Step 4.)
>	d. If not, click "Add record" in the top gray menu.
>	e. For the "artist" fields, use the ID number of the artist from the
>	    artist listing.
>	f. Enter your information (fields are self-explanatory):
>	   Title, year, URL
>	   Enter one short sentence describing your piece in the
>description field.
>	   Feel free to add additional info to the description!
>	   Choose keywords and technology from the menu (and let us know if
>you
>               	   want additional keywords or technology to be added)
>	   For now, don't worry about the "context" fields. We'll get to
>	   that in Step 4.
>                g. Click the "save" button
>
>
>NOTE:
>If someone else made an entry for your work, feel free to edit it as you
>consider necessary!
>
>Some of you might have a website that functions as a portal to your works
>(such as potatoland.org or easylife.org). While you can add an entry for
>the whole site, it would be extremely helpful if you could provide
>separate entries for all of your works! We realize that this is
>time-consuming but it would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
>4. Add "contexts" for your work.
>
>The goal of the database is to help people understand the context of your
>work; specifically, which other artworks they should think about to fully
>understand your work. These other artworks could be
>*ones that influenced you
>*ones that have a similar goal
>*ones that contrast in interesting ways
>*previous artworks created by yourself that influenced (or can be
>understood as a basis for) the artwork that you're adding
>*net artworks that aren't accessible on-line anymore (because they had
>been created for an older browser version etc.) -- if possible, please
>provide a URL leading to a description of the work
>*artworks that aren't net art -- if possible add a URL that leads to info
>about the respective work
>
>
>To list another artwork as a "context":
>
>	a. Add the artist to the Artist database if not already there.
>	b. Add the artwork to the Artwork database if not there.
>	c. Go to the Artwork list.
>	d. Click the "Edit" button in the row for your artwork.
>	e. Edit your entry and click "save".
>
>NOTE:
>You can also supply URLs as contexts instead of entire artwork records;
>we'd prefer you use records if possible.
>
>Your artwork's visualization in the final map will be influenced by the
>number and type of works you've cited as contexts.
>
>
>Thanks very much! We really appreciate your effort and advice!



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