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The photographer, Ryan Mcguinley, made a splash last year with his show at the whitney

he is famous for his pictures of the east village gay-grafiti scene.

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Rhizome.org is worthwhile. Requires a membership fee but has free access on Fridays.
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Critical Arts Ensemble doesn't fit the traditional requirements of net.art but I believe it's equally valid.
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• Artport-The Whitney Museum's collection of Internet art.
• Hotwired's RGB Gallery- Been a while since I've been there; it seems a couple of the links are down but it's a good place to start.
• Potatoland- Really neat stuff!! Be sure to check out the p-soup Java applet.

interaccess in Toronto is an amazing gallery.
The Seemen and SRL in San Francisco will blow your ass up.
xraylab in Seattle/Chicago/New York does some great interactive work.
Norm White has been kicking art/tech ass for since before you were born.
David Rokeby's work is totally amazing too.

Beige Programming Ensemble in Chicago/St. Louis/New York can make your Atari/C64 do backflips.

and for some amazing reading... Stephen Wilsons information arts book has no comparison.
rhizome.org is a pretty good site for all things art/tech (esp. web art)

And for validation by the mainstream art world check out the whitney's artport.

interaccess in Toronto is an amazing gallery.

The Seemen and SRL in San Francisco will blow your ass up.

xraylab in Seattle/Chicago/New York does some great interactive work.

Norm White has been kicking art/tech ass for since before you were born.

David Rokeby's work is totally amazing too.

Beige Programming Ensemble in Chicago/St. Louis/New York can make your Atari/C64 do backflips.

And for some amazing reading... Stephen Wilsons information arts book has no comparison.

rhizome.org is a pretty good site for all things art/tech (esp. web art)

And for validation by the mainstream art world check out the whitney's artport.

So one of the major points of this exhibit is to "peek under the hood" of computer art and have people look at the code, in the same way that you might look at an artists brushes, paints, etc. Given that, you would think that they could format the source code properly. Look at this C source for the Linescape piece. It looks like someone hastily ran code2html without any concern for getting the tabs/whitespace correct, and called it a day.

Come on, if the point is to view source code the way it is "in the wild" then at least get the formatting correct. I don't know of any programmer that would purposefully write code that looks like that. The comments and other multiline structures don't line up, and there seem to be many spurious line breaks. (And the tab stops should be 2 columns, The Way God Intended, but that's just my opinion.)

If I were an artist who had created a commissioned piece of code and they posted it like that, I would feel a bit insulted. It's as if the gallery had let some photographic prints get waterlogged or a feature broke off of a sculpture during shipping, and they just continue to show the piece as if that's how it was supposed to look.

(And, if indeed that is how the author Camille Utterback truly formatted the source, then I shudder. For an exhibit about the "art of code", that's some damn butt-ugly code there. I'm only referring to the formatting, not its content.)

I knew it, Slashdot does not understand anything about art ;)) Anyway, it is this one by Alex Galloway.

The Whitney is a museum in New York City showcasing modern art. They also offer a biennial which showcases digital works by many emerging artists. It's definitely worth a visit if you're are ever in New York for the day. Fridays from 6pm until 9pm is pay what you wish admission for all your students/cheapskates.

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The Whitney is running a biennial which is showcasing some of today's most notable artists. I was really excited to see a lot of internet installations. There are several computer terminals in the exhibition space pointed towards websites, and there are some more complicated ones with projection installations and other gizmos. I think the /. crowd would really appreciate seeing them treated as high art. I always believed it was (more in terms of literary theory though, but that's another story).

The rest of the exhibit is really nice. There is a comic book influence in several installations, and there's a whole gallery for Chris Ware of Acme Novelty Library Fame. There are some performance artists and I suggest scheduling your visit to catch them. When I went, Karin Campbell was performing "When I Close My Eyes" and it was a really surreal experience.

If you have never seen contemporary art before, this is one of the best examples of what's out there and I highly urge you to go. If you're not near Manhattan, I also suggest MOCA in Los Angeles and SFMOMA in San Francisco.

The Whitney Museum of Art recently had a well-received display of digital art.

It is my opinion that the position of CG in relation to art is similar to the position of photography before Edward Stieglitz' Photo-Secession. Before then photography was seen as a purely technical pursuit devoid of artistic merit.

Whether there will be a CG-Secession is debatable. The postmodernist emphasis on mediated realities means that art is generally trying to catch up with CG rather than the other way round - look at Disneyland. Contrast and compare with the largely lacklustre Bitstreams exhibition at the Whitney. Mind you, the Whitney did have dozens of cool plasma displays.

Curating a multimedia show is difficult. It tends to "day" rather quickly. Even if the project is burned to a CD which can last for 30 years, the platform it is built on is unlikely to be around in five years. Because of this, all of NYU Interactive Telecommunication Program thesis' are recorded to VHS. Sure, you lose a hell of a lot putting a digital project on video, but its better than losing everything.

A lot of multimedia work falls through the cracks. It disinterests both engineers and traditional artists. It also tends to be installation work. This means that the museum piece is not wrapped up in a form useful in your PC.

As for suggestions...
The Whitney Museum of American Art is featuring a show called BitStreams and Data Dynamics. This is one of the largest showings of multimedia art.
Blue Man Group is probably the only long running theatrical show heavily based around multimedia. Beyond the eye candy, it makes lots of commentary about the art world and the digital world. Oh yeah, they do those Intel commercials as well, but I always figure that they just confuse the average home viewer. : )
Explore NYU'S Interactive Telecommunication Program site. MIT's Media Lab and NYU's ITP are the two top programs in their field. The Media Lab does things because they can. NYU does projects on a much more human level.
Rhizome tends to be a center of net based art.

And there's no way you can pass up the old standard - Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan. While it was written well before "multimedia" its commentary on more traditional media is easily extrapolated to digital media.