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Subject: DIGITAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART LAUNCHES IN CYBERSPACE
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Date: Fri, August 29, 2003 10:55 am
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 29, 2003

Contact: W. Logan Fry
Press Office
[email protected] / [email protected]
DMOMA - http://www.dmoma.org

DIGITAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART LAUNCHES IN CYBERSPACE

The Digital Museum of Modern Art opened its portals to the public July 31,
2003. It can be accessed from anywhere in the world - from a catfish farm
in the outfields of Cleveland a high rise apartment in Kuala Lampur.
Anytime, day or night: "Art Never Sleeps".

Go to: http://www.dmoma.org

DMOMA is dedicated to new forms of visual expression, as well as
adaptation of old techniques and processes to new purposes. The immediate
focus is digital art, including art in digital format, physical art made
by digital process, and art in every media and format that speaks to the
advancing technologies of our era.

DMOMA tests the underlying premise: << All art can be reduced to a
sequence of binary bits. . . zeros and ones in endless succession. >>

Not only art, but architecture, can manifest itself solely as binary bits,
and exist solely in cyberspace. To paraphrase Nicholas Negroponte in
"Being Digital":

<< As we go online and deliver more and more bits and fewer and fewer
atoms, the leverage of maintaining a physical museum will disappear. Even
having a dedicated staff of officers, curators and preparators will lose
some its significance as as the museum becomes an electronic venue brought
directly into your office, home and classroom. >>

And into space DMOMA will go also, with DMOMA Deimos scheduled to open in
June, 2004.

The paradigm shift is upon us.

Artists are invited to submit their art, under the precepts of the
Viridian Green Manifesto, for possible inclusion in the museum collection;
or to send proposals for special exhibitions. Go to: www.dmoma.org.