The National Museum of American Art's new CD-ROM, which features more than 750 works from the collection, 600 artists' biographies, texts from six museum collection catalogues plus two hours of multimedia features (including a tour by museum director Elizabeth Broun), has been chosen as a finalist for 1997 Milia d'Or awards in Cannes in the art and culture category. The CD-ROM costs $39.95 ($31.95) and can be ordered from the NMAA Website.
VIRTUAL ART FROM TORONTO
Year Zero One, a visual art site based in Toronto, plans to launch its virtual gallery this spring with a group show of international artists on the theme of "artists and the new millennium." Submissions are sought, up to two JPEGS no larger than 400 pixels height and width, along with a short bio and contact info. Email to curator@year01.com (or to: 29 McCaul St. #502, Toronto, Ont. M5T 1V7). Deadline: Mar. 1, 1997. Year Zero One features a directory of international and local on-line galleries and artist sites, a forum and an artists slide registry.
PORT AT MIT
"PORT: Navigating Digital Culture" opens Jan. 25, 1997, at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass. (reception tonight, Jan. 24, 5:30-7:30). PORT is an exhibition of networked digital worlds on the Internet organized by artnetweb for the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Jan. 25-Mar. 29, 1997. To connect with the projects in the show go to the PORT Website.
DIRECTOR SEARCH AT SWISS INSTITUTE
Carin Kuoni, director of the Swiss Institute in New York (in the New Era Building, 495 Broadway, 3rd floor) for the past five years, is leaving her post in July 1997. The search process for a new director is under way. Presently on view in the Swiss Institute galleries is "The Lost World of Ernst Brunner, Photographs 1937-1962," Jan. 7-Feb. 8, 1997.
GREENBLAT SITE
East Village veteran cartoonist and multimedia artist Rodney Alan Greenblat is celebrating the launch of his new Website, The Center for Advanced Whimsy. Check it out.
FAULKNER STATUE CONTROVERSY
A statue of William Faulkner planned for his home town of Oxford, Miss., has drawn objections from the Nobel-prize winning writer's relatives because the town cut down a healthy tree to make room for it. "I'm against it particularly since they cut down that magnolia tree," said Faulkner's daughter, Jill Faulkner Summers. Dedication of the statue is scheduled for Sept. 25, 1997, which would have been Faulkner's 100th birthday.
COLLECTORS BY MAIL
An enterprising artist has compiled two lists of over 1,000 art buyers each and is selling them as part of his artwork (called Untitled (mailing list/data doc), 1997) in a signed and numbered unlimited edition. Guy Overfelt, a young conceptual artist whose exhibition, "Project Evidence," is on view at White Columns in New York, Jan. 17-Feb. 23, 1997, came up with the scheme, and used the lists himself to solicit donations for his show (he got contributions from five people). The diskettes, one with collectors from the West Coast and the other with East Coast art buyers, are $20 each, come in either IBM and Mac formats and can be ordered through White Columns.
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