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The “Rethinking the Visual: New Technologies in the Context of Society and Culture” conference, to be held September 13-15, 2002, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will open with an Internet art forum and online exhibition at the Department of Fine Arts. The exhibition, entitled “Mapping Transitions”, will be co-curated by CU-Boulder digital art professor Mark Amerika and Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The exhibition consists of 3 newly commissioned pieces from Internet artists whose work was selected for the Whitney Biennial 2002. The artists participating in this event are Mary Flanagan, Lisa Jevbratt, and John Klima. The exhibition will open on September 4, 2002, and Ms. Paul and all of the artists will demonstrate their work to the public on the opening night of the conference in Boulder.

Speakers include Joanna Drucker, W.J.T. Mitchell, Rod Coover, Faye Ginsberg, and Steve Jones.

Slope, the online journal devoted to poetry being written around the world, announces its first issue of hyperfiction. Submissions are currently being accepted.
[Link updated April 2005]

trAce was shortlisted as a New Statesman New Media Award winner in the category of Online Communities. From the cateogory description: “This award is for those organisations that utilise new forms of media to create a space where people can connect with others, providing support, information and advice for each other across the world.”

Contains new media art and hyperfiction by Jason Nelson, Scott Rettberg, Alan Sondheim, Roberto Simanowski, Chris Ballange, Mez, George Quasha, Peter Howard, and Lawrence Upton.
[Link updated April 2005]