Fun Fiction and Improbable Truth

For Doctor Who fans, the BBC has a very detailed website, including The Scream of the Shalka, a six-episode online "animated adventure". The episodes are in Flash using vector art so that they can be viewed full-screen without lose of image quality. [Dec. 13/06 - Site is updated and there are now games, scenes from the earliest episodes, video, and much more.]

Margot Lovejoy's new book - Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age has just been published and has an [almost] excellent web page. The artists' page has links to work by 180 artists, which you find by revealing one of the names, clicking on it, and then on the URL. The search feature works only if you know which artists are included - there are lists of artists under 'contexts'.

On a much more serious note, I've been following the reports of the arrest of Steve Kurtz, a member of Critical Art Ensemble. When I first read about it, I discussed the story with a colleague who thought it must be an urban myth, since it sounded so improbable. Not so, unfortunately. Read more at CAE Defense Fund and in the Washington Post (registration needed).

I found this information in the June 4, 2004 Digest from Rhizome.org. Although access to (some/all?) Rhizome features is free on Fridays, a yearly donation provides access to all their web pages, daily and/or weekly emailed news if you request it, and many other features. You will find detailed information about donating if you try to access Art + Text messages.