Dear Friends at Crumb,

I would like to let the list members know about two new net art projects by
Heath Bunting and Susan Collins, which have just launched on Tate's website:
<http://www.tate.org.uk/>.

* Heath's project, 'BorderXings Guide'
<http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/borderxingguide.htm>, primarily consists of
documentation of walks that traverse national boundaries, without
interruption from customs, immigration, or border police. The work comments
on the way in which movement between borders is restricted by governments
and associated bureaucracies.
The website is not available to everyone who has an internet connection.
People wishing to view the website must physically travel to one of the
listed designated locations, or apply to become an authorised client
themselves. The project intends a reversal of the way that borders restrict
movement and challenge the supposed liberties that accompany the concept of
the Internet as a borderless space.

* Susan Collin's work, 'Tate in Space'
<http://www.tate.org.uk/space/default.htm> tracks the developments of Tate's
new museum in orbit, documenting the architectural processes involved in the
construction of the museum, and the launch of the Tate Satellite. The site
explores ways in which Tate in Space will extend visitor experience and
engage new audiences. Tate in Space will act as an arena for debate and
reflection on the nature of art in space, raising questions about cultural
and institutional ambition and the very human desires to observe and
communicate.

Texts written by Josephine Berry, Florian Schneider and Paul Bonaventura
contextualise the pieces.

Please take a look. We'd love to hear your comments and feedback.

The Press Release is below.  Please accept my apologies if you have received
this announcement elsewhere.


Best wishes


Honor Harger
Webcasting Curator
Interpretation & Education, Tate Modern
Digital Programmes, Tate
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PH: (44) 020 7401 5066



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PRESS RELEASE

19 June 2002

Tate online presents latest netart
Tate Online together with BT

Following the success of its netart commissions in 2000, Tate will launch
new works by artists Heath Bunting and Susan Collins on 1 July. Tate's
website, www.tate.org.uk, now registers over 1.5 million unique users a
year. As well as providing information on the four Tate galleries and the
Tate Collection, Tate Online, sponsored by BT, continues to develop a
distinct and identifiable programme, including exhibitions of work created
specifically for this medium.

Heath Bunting will develop a new work in a series that is currently underway
at www.irational.org/borderXing/. In this series, he carries out border
crossings in Europe, locating specific national boundaries and undertaking
walks that traverse them without interruption from customs, immigration, or
border police. The walks are documented with notes and photographs.
Bunting's walks recall the work of Hamish Fulton and Richard Long and can be
seen as contributing to the tradition in conceptual art that takes as its
subject themes of landscape and space. Crucially though, these walks
question political, economical and juridical aspect of travel. The work will
continue to develop throughout the year.

Susan Collins has initiated a development programme for a Tate in Space. At
this stage of the programme, the Tate in Space website is the key route
through which members of the public can follow developments, witness the
architectural process, and follow the notional Tate Satellite orbiting earth
every 92.56 minutes. The site explores ways in which a Tate in Space might
extend visitor experience and engage new audiences. Tate in Space online
will act as an arena for debate and reflection on the nature of art in
space, raising questions about cultural and institutional ambition and the
very human desires to observe and communicate.

Alongside these new works Tate has commissioned supporting texts. Florian
Schneider will discuss the work of Heath Bunting and Paul Bonaventura will
examine Susan Collins's project. Josie Berry will provide a contextual
overview for the works. These texts will be available on the Tate site on 1
July 2002.

As a twenty-first century network, the Tate galleries and Tate Online engage
with the art of the past but also intervene in the debates and practices of
the present, through Tate's collection and displays, the public events
programmes and the exhibitions and commissions.  The website, powered by BT
Openworld, has grown to be among the most successful museum sites in the
world, with visitors from more than 140 countries in 2001. Since BT and BT
Openworld became Tate Online's partners, visitor figures have almost
doubled, with May 2002 registering 197,00 unique visitors, the highest
figure to date.

For further information please contact Sioban Ketelaar
Tate Press Office, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG, UK

Call: + 44 (0)20 7887 8730/1
Fax: + 44 (0)20 7887 8729
Email: [log in to unmask]
Visit: www.tate.org.uk

Notes:
Heath Bunting:
Biography  http://www.irational.org/cgi-bin/cv/cv.pl?member=heath

Susan Collins:
Biography  http://www.susan-collins.net/SACbio.html