Message-Id: <mailto:199412060218.UAA24337@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 19:22:22 -0800 From: "Edward W. Earle" <mailto:edearle@UCRAC1.UCR.EDU> Subject: WWW server at UC Photography Museum To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
University of California, Riverside 12/5/94 California Museum of PhotographyNETWORK EXHIBITIONS on World Wide Web The California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside is happy to announce the expansion of its NETWORK EXHIBITION project. Digital image files as exhibitions on Internet were first presented in the summer 1993, on the UC/Riverside Gopher server. The Museum has now installed a World Wide Web server in the CMP Collections with the help of a grant from Apple Computer through the Apple Library of Tomorrow program and through telecommunications support from the University's Department of Computing and Communications, with additional hard disk support from MicroNet Technology.
ADDRESS: http://cmp1.ucr.edu
Contact: Edward Earle, Senior Curator mailto:edearle@ucrac1.ucr.edu 909 787-4787
-CMP NETWORK PROJECTS-
HISTORY and HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY The Museum offers historical photographs from the CMP collections as browseable .gif files with larger image files (many in stereoscopic format) available for downloading. In addition to broad topics, several specialized exhibitions are planned combining interpretive text and images.
CONTEMPORARY ART A forum for contemporary art projects will be in the NET WORK SHOP. The inaugural exhibition offers work by Jim Pomeroy who was the CMP's first "digital artist" before that term even existed. Work from Pomeroy's 1984 residency will be featured in December, 1994. The CMP plans to host other contemporary art projects designed specifically for presentation on Internet. The staff is open to proposals from contemporary artists.
K-12 EXHIBITIONS A section on the Museum's media projects with children will continue to expand with examples and discussions with teachers about curricular activities for the use of photography, video and computer-based media. Robert Price, a teacher at the Hoffer Elementary School, Banning, CA will help organize this section with Lori Fiacco, CMP Curator of Education.
SNAP: School Networking Action Project. The Museum is working with a consortium of 8 Los Angeles county schools on a CalREN frame relay project. In addition to connectivity through the Internet to our WWW server, the teachers and students will work collaboratively in a Wide Area Network (WAN) environment. Projects using the Museum's on-line historical resources will be written back to the Museum and shared with the general public.
In addition to offering Network Exhibitions, the CMP provides a public access Internet terminal in the galleries. Hot links are designed to bring visitors to other exemplary art and photography sites including "The Place," and "mailto:@Art" at the Art Department, University of Illinois,Urbana/Champaign and David Blair's WaxWeb project. We would like to learn about other Internet-based exhibition projects in photography, video and new media.
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