DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART -- new affiliation

DEAR COLLEAGUES AND DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART USERS,

We are happy to announce the new affiliation with improved and long term su=
pport provided by the department for Cultural Studies of the Danube Univers=
ity Krems, Austria, which will assure preservation and growth of the Databa=
se of Virtual Art.

D V A
As pioneer in the field, the Database of Virtual Art has been documenting t=
he rapidly evolving field of digital installation art since 1999. It is sup=
ported by the German Research Foundation and various other institutions. Ou=
r research-oriented, complex overview of immersive, interactive, telematic =
and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with renowned media artis=
ts, researchers and institutions. The database is based on open-source-tech=
nologies and allows individuals to post material themselves. Currently it c=
ontains hundreds of work descriptions including several thousand digital do=
cuments, videos, technical data, institutions and bio-bibliographical infor=
mation. As one of the richest resources online, with a freshly implemented =
scientific Thesaurus the database responds to the demands of the field.

www.virtualart.at

We encourage your remarks and suggestions!


DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS (DUK)
The cultural studies department in Krems contains, in addition to the progr=
am in image science, contains also film, contemporary music and intercultur=
al studies programs - so that the approach is already multimedial, like the=
subject of Media Art History. With our international faculty members we wi=
ll continue offering new global programs in the field of media art, collect=
ion, curation, preservation and image management.

Center for Image Sciences: www.donau-uni.ac.at/cis

DUK NEWSLETTER: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/zbw/engnewsletter

PERFECT COMBINATION
Beside the Database of Virtual Art - the Goettweig Print Collection (colle=
ction database online soon), which contains 30.000 original prints from Ren=
aissance to Barock until now, allows in-depth research into its large resou=
rces. We are glad to report that Danube University is able to provide our f=
ield soon with an open archive contextualizing media art in art and image h=
istory.

NEW ADVISORY BOARD
At the same time, we are also excited to inform the field of researchers, a=
rtists, scholars, students who have found the database a value to their stu=
dies, that we have a newly formed advisory board who will help guide the Da=
tabase of Virtual Art in the future. Their contributions to the field and =
their importance to the ongoing developments of media art as the art of our=
times needs no introduction, but further biographical can be found under:

http://www.virtualart.at/common/advisoryBoard.do

We welcome Roy Ascott, Beryl Graham, Erkki Huhtamo, Jorge La Ferla, Gunalan=
Nadarajan, Christiane Paul, Martin Roth, and Steve Wilson as advisors to t=
he Database of Virtual Art.