Banner Art Collective - Spring 2003 News Update

Hey everyone,

A lot has been happening over at bannerart.org:

The BAC is currently featured in mediaHEXA's Phase 18 exhibition until
February 13, 2003.

We are finishing up an exhibition at the Edith-Russ Site for Media Art in
Oldenburg, Germany. The BAC was included in the show "Total
Uberzogen," which finishes up on February 9, 2003.

Fatima Lasay included banner art as a portion of a class on digital media
at the University of the Philippines's College of Fine Arts. The class
responded with a large number of entries, some general and some focused on
human right's violations. There is, I think, tremendous pedogical value
in the practice of banner art, which forces students of new media to hone
their Direcotr and image editing skills within strictly defined
forms. All good poets start by mastering scrict forms; why shouldn't all
digital artists?

Since its redesign, the Banner Art Collective has added 81 works. We want
to thank the following artists for their recent contributions: Garrett
Lynch, Michael Sellam, Frederique Santune, Dante Smirnoff, michael
szpakowski, Fatima Lasay, KRN, Stuffit, david hayden schwarz, Richard
Arnold, pope, Antoine Schmitt, Nick Barker, Christophe Bruno, Christina
McPhee, Ji Bet, Zebra3, CartonMan, yoke and zoom, Tess, John Enrico
I. Mortel, Camilla Tabagan, paulo r. vinluan, lala, monica laurel
delgado, Jeffrey Acdal, Maysa Arabit, Gem Alexandria Dy Tuano, leonardo
d. pabroquez jr., carlito c. amalla, Hasmyn T. Homeres, winchell
d. saludares, Tadej VOBOVNIK, Mary Grace M. Tenorio, eleanor c. alfante,
Cathy Lasam, hansel ivan cruz, Melissa Garcia, Abigael Frias, Kat
Atendido, Bernice de Leon, kathrina atendido, genesis jinggoy
l. buensuceso, Aisa C. Clemente, jimi diga, manuel abrera, Terence Jordan
Ileto, ro27 *, Debbie Singson, Julia Arenas, and jimpunk.

We also want to thank those that have hosted banner art on their
websites. Banner art succeeds best when viewed in the margins, and these
hosts have made that possible. Many bloggers have placed banner art on
their pages, most notably Free Space Comix (the blog of Brian Kim
Stefans), squish (the blog of Katherine Parrish), and demokratica: the
werglog (Gabriel Pickard). Two literary magazines have added banner art
to their pages: gotcannedgoods?com and hellorhighwater.org. We welcome any
new hosts who would like to host banner art to download our randomizer
scripts to place banners on your pages.

We are currently trying to procure funding to distribute banner art in
actual advertising space on commercial sites–as sort of banner art
happenings. We are applying for grant aid, but will also accept
individual donations through paypal.

Thanks for your continued support of the project. It truly is a
collective effort that could not happen without you.

Best,
Brandon Barr & Garrett Lynch
Banner Art Collective
http://bannerart.org