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From: kanter@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: What's new on Arts Wire . . . .
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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 07:33:10 GMT
ARTS WIRE
ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE ARTS
A Program of The New York
Foundation for the Arts
ARTS WIRE Launches Breakthrough Web-Based Conferencing Interface
Arts Wire announces an exciting new graphic interface, bringing the
interactive conferencing of its 3-year-old subscriber network
together with the look and feel of the World Wide Web.
Arts Wire began with Caucus, a text-based conferencing system
developed by Camber-Roth, Inc. This initial commitment to a
text-based conferencing system assured the inclusion of as many
potential users as possible, and allowed a fully interactive system
to flourish.
The recent success of the World Wide Web on the Internet, however,
led Arts Wire's staff and users to explore bringing this medium onto
the interactive environment of Arts Wire. Working with Charles Roth,
the developer of Caucus software, and the Web design team of
Interconnect, with the financial support of the New York State
Council on the Arts, staff has now created an interface that brings
together the graphic ease and linking power of the Web with the
conversational give-and-take of Arts Wire's conferencing software.
Arts Wire's new Web-based conferencing system employs a specially
designed server and a flexible series of CGI-compliant scripts
(Common Gateway Interface) to launch the underlying Caucus
conferencing database onto the Web. Users logging in to the Arts Wire
Network will soon find the interface to provide all of the
conferencing power of the traditional Caucus environment, combined
with and enhanced by the multimedia hypertext capabilities of the
Web.
The new WebCaucus interface will not affect those users unable to
access the Web; They will be able to use Arts Wire as they always
have, in a text-based environment. Users accessing the network
through the text-based or new graphic interfaces alike, will continue
to communicate and share information side by side on Arts Wire.
For more information, contact blasky@xxxxxxxxxxxx or come visit:
o The Arts Wire Public Web page:
http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/awfront.html
o The New York Foundation for the Arts Home page:
http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/nyfa.html
For Arts Wire subscription information, contact artswire@xxxxxxxxxxxx
* * *
BACKGROUND
Arts Wire opened in 1992 to enable artists, individuals and arts
organizations to better communicate, share ideas and information and
coordinate their activities. Providing immediate access to news,
information and dialogue on the arts, Arts Wire's goal is to build a
forum for the free expression of ideas among its diverse subscribers.
Today, Arts Wire comprises some 700 subscribers, from individual
artists through artist-run groups to national organizations. Over
eighty conference areas enable particular interest groups (e.g.
LatinoArts, New Music, Dance, Chicago, Freedom of Expression, and
many more) to share information and discuss common issues. Other
features include more wide-ranging conferences for general news and
discussion: ArtsWire CURRENT, the weekly news bulletin; Money, a
weekly updated
listing of grant deadlines; and a popular job opportunities item.
Arts Wire is one of eight programs for artists and their
organizations operated by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Other
current digital initiatives include the acceptance of work in digital
form by the Artists' Fellowships program and a survey of 3,000 New
York State artists working in digital forms.
* * *
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
o ARTS WIRE'S WEEKLY ARTS NEWS SERVICE RENAMED CURRENT
Arts Wire's three-year-old weekly arts news bulletin, HOTWIRE, is
re-named ARTS WIRE CURRENT. Arts Wire has sold its rights to the
name, allowing WIRED magazine to continue to use the
name HOTWIRED for its Web site. Arts Wire CURRENT will expand our
coverage of arts news from around the country, job announcements,
conferences and what's new around the Net.
http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/current.html
o ARTS WIRE'S NEW DATABASE FOR ARTS SITES ON THE WEB
Arts Wire WebBase was created as a public service for the online
arts community to keep abreast of new arts sites and for arts site
administrators to promote their new or renovated sites to a
targeted audience, vitally interested in the arts.
http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/awfront.html
o ARTS WIRE ANNOUNCES ITS OWN DOMAIN NAME (artswire.org)
Arts Wire, currently leasing space and services from The Meta
Network, has now registered its own domain name. All former
addresses ending with tmn.com may now be supplanted with
artswire.org.
For information about Arts Wire subscriptions contact:
Judy Malloy
Arts Wire Front Desk Coordinator
2140 Shattuck, Suite 2340
Berkeley, CA 94704
tel: 510-526-3993
email: artswire@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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