In 1998, the U.S. Commerce Department approved the creation of a new corporation called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. One of the key tasks assigned to ICANN was to increase the number of available domain names by creating new top-level domains taking pressure off of current domains like .com.

The .museum domain suffix would "give museums the possibility of registering Internet addresses with a distinct museum identity and would allow the users of the Internet to recognize this as a sign of authenticity," according to the International Council of Museums.(ICOM) ICOM, headquartered in Paris and the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles are the two founding members of the Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma) which submitted an application to ICANN in October 2000 for the establishment of a .museum top level domain. (TLD)

"One of the most exciting aspects of having a dedicated top-level domain for the museum community, and very likely to have been a pivotal consideration in its approval, is its prototypal nature," states Cary Karp, Director of Internet Strategy and Technology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Karp with Ken Hamma, Assistant Director, J. Paul Getty Museum and Project Director www.getty.edu, spearheaded the .museum TLD. "Dot-museum will be the first of what is envisioned as a significant number of additional TLDs dedicated to as many distinct aspects of cultural activity as can successfully be argued by agencies wishing to operate such domains. Including a .art among them would be as reasonable as possibly could be," he added.

"I think it is in the potential for greater visibility of museums online, thus facilitating the communications and educational missions of museums worldwide, Hamma, who expects that the new TLD will greatly increase the precision and recall of searches for museums online, noted. "Visibility will be enhanced greatly by a common naming scheme in a single domain, rather than as is the case now, being scattered across several of the top-level domains. Because the museum domain is restricted, this visibility will translate also to recognizability and the general realm of authenticity."

However, some artists and arts administrators are concerned that registration in .museum will be restricted to museums and museum organizations according to the definition established by the ICOM.

"While the .museum domain was undoubtedly undertaken with best intentions, the notion of a legitimizing body deciding what qualifies as a museum and what does not seems to create more problems than the new domain will solve," Arnold Kramer commented in a discussion of the proposed .museum TLD on the MUSWEB listserv. "No matter how carefully these decisions are made, the idea that there is a sanctioning body deciding who is legitimate and who is not is anathema." Kramer is Director of Outreach Technology at the Holocaust Museum where he runs a group that is responsible for making museum intellectual and interpretive resources accessible via electronic systems, especially the web. However, he emphasized that he was speaking as an individual not as a representative of his institution.

The primary criterion for registration is being a museum by the ICOM definition, as well as the many professionals and professional membership associations that serve the museum community. However, membership in ICOM or any other professional or regional organization is not a criterion for registration.

The ICOM Statutes define a museum as "a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, and open to the public which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their environment."

According to Cary Karp, the ICOM Definition is subject to modification at the organization's triennial General Assemblies. "The next such occasion is in July of this year, at which time we also plan on launching the operation of .museum," he said.

Initial concern about the eligibility of virtual entities is being addressed, Karp told Arts Wire, and he added that a resolution to expand the definition to include organizations dealing with intangible cultural property is on the agenda. "Assuming, as is all but a foredrawn conclusion, that the resolution is adopted, virtual museums will able to register in .museum. Should there be any delay in the adoption of the resolution, MuseDoma will invoke its mandated ability to extend the scope of the ICOM Definition for its own purposes and be recognizing virtual museums from the outset," he noted.

In addition to the visibility factors noted earlier, Ken Hamma also told Arts Wire that they expected that the .museum process would begin to increase the sense of community in the online environment for museums. "Response so far strongly suggests that this is the case, and that by creating a locus for that community we may be able to target a set of concerns about being online that neither money nor software are able to," he noted. "We are anxious to see how this will develop and are hopeful that it will contribute in this intangible way to help bridge the so-called digital divide that exists for thousands of museums and exponentially larger numbers of online visitors."

He imagines a model in which this domain can think locally with museums and their associations around the world, and then act globally in ways that benefit the entire community. Ideas under consideration which would further these goals are to waive registration fees for museums with operating budgets under a certain amount; to provide basic, limited Web hosting; to provide simple Web site management tools; to provide reference services for museum needs; and to provide regional or global services such as self-serve calendar facilities.

"....The .museum exercise is solving problems and gathering experience that will significantly ease the path towards the establishment of further cultural sector TLDs. MuseDoma looks forward to being able to place its experience at the disposal of other agencies within this sector," Cary Karp emphasized.

However, in an open letter to Cary Karp, curator/web artist Jon Ippolito -- a co-author with Joline Blais and Keith Frank of the "hyperfable" FAIR E-TALES currently featured on The Alternative Museum Web site -- wonders how the proposed .museum TLD might affect online creativity that takes place *outside* a museum setting, an issue which he believes should be critical to anyone who cares about museums or the future of online culture.

Ippolito, who emphasizes that he is speaking for himself and not for the institution for which he works, addresses MuseDoma's argument that a major goal of the new domain suffix is to bridge the digital divide. "I am sure that this argument appealed to ICANN, which is charged with the difficult task of expanding the Web's name space without undermining its open architecture, (ICANN seems to take this mandate seriously enough to have rejected suffixes like .union and .health as 'insufficiently democratic.')" he states.

"....So let's assume for the sake of argument that .museum will encourage more smaller museums to take the leap to cyberspace," Ippolito continues. "What of the countless offline alternative spaces and exhibition halls that do not maintain a permanent collection of objects? Once we museums have claimed the best of the virtual real estate, what chance do these numerous alternatives have of competing for hits from the lay public? In an attention economy like the Web, small advantages can make big differences. Jane Doe looks up the artist Bill Viola in a search engine and gets links for five .orgs and one .museum. Which link is she going to follow?"

Ippolito also noted to Arts Wire that he worries that "as soon as we open the gates to alternative spaces and virtual museums, any line drawn in an attempt to distinguish curatorial endeavors is going to amount to an arbitrary exclusion of comparable paradigms. I pity the committee assigned the task of coming up with a 'clearly stated definition' that will tell me why, say, Rhizome's ArtBase is a museum but Olia Lialina's Last Real Net Art Museum is not, or why the Medialess Archive is a museum but Freenet is not."

In the conclusion to his open letter, he asks fellow museum professionals "to keep in mind that our mandate as museums is not to compete with the cultural production going on outside our walls, but to reflect and preserve it. How unfortunate it would be for established museums to unwittingly erase the heritage they are meant to preserve by gerrymandering the name space!"

In news which may effect all newly requested TLDS and petitions for new ones, last week a coalition of cyber-rights groups and scholars, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, (CPSR) issued a joint letter to the Department of Commerce calling for hearings and additional public commentary on recent Internet domain name decisions. The groups are questioning the closed process -- stating that it violates the Due Process clause of the Constitution and the Federal Administrative Procedures Act.

The Cyber-Rights groups emphasize that "The process got off to a bad start when ICANN announced that it would require a $50,000 non-refundable fee from domain name applicants, thus skewing the pool towards those organizations able to afford a $50,000 lottery ticket. Deadlines for public comment were missed, and the period for public input was small."

The letter also cites ICANN's rejection of a .union proposal as "based on unfounded speculation that the international labor organizations that proposed this new top level domain name were somehow undemocratic" and noted that the "procedures being used gave the proponents no opportunity to reply to this unfounded accusation."

According to POLITECH, Energy and Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-LA) and U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) are scheduling a Subcommittee on Telecommunications hearing in February to examine the ICANN decision process.

Sources/resources:

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS (ICOM) -- http://www.icom.org

J. PAUL GETTY TRUST -- http://www.getty.edu

MUSEUM DOMAIN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (MUSEDOMA) -- http://www.musedoma.org

INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS (ICANN) -- http://www.icann.org

MUSWEB LISTSERV ARCHIVES -- http://listserv.nrm.se/cgi-bin/wa?A0=musweb-l

Joline Blais, Keith Frank, Jon Ippolito
FAIR E-TALES -- http://www.three.org

THE ALTERNATIVE MUSEUM -- http://www.alternativemuseum.org

RHIZOME ARTBASE -- http://www.rhizome.org/artbase

OLIA LIALINA -- http://www.design.ru/olialia/

MEDIALESS ARCHIVE -- http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/av/1999/07/msg00014.html

CYBER-RIGHTS COALITION LETTER TO COMMERCE -- http://www.aclu.org/congress/l011601a.html

POLITECH -- http://www.politechbot.com/

Aviva Rahmani (New York City, NY; Maine) is an artist grounded in painting, performance & environmental art who has taught, written and exhibited extensively. Her reclamation project, GHOST NETS -- http://www.ghostnets.com -- has been presented at international venues and exists in virtual analog on her web site. She has been artist-in-resident-at-large at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve and continues to work collaboratively with scientists both individually and in groups.

Sources/resources:

THE GREEN ARTS WEB -- http://www.greenarts.org -- is a resource for those who want to be more informed about the practices and theories of environmental art

Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
NATURAL CAPITALISM -- http://www.natcap.org/

THE SIERRA CLUB WEBSITE -- http://www.sierraclub.org

THE INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK -- http://www.ienearth.org/gale_norton.html

William Claiborne
"Indians Split on Norton at Interior"
THE WASHINGTONPOST -- http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37657-2001Jan23.html
January 23, 2001

ASSOCIATED WRITING PROGRAMS (AWP) 2001 CONFERENCE

In association with the YMCA National Writer's Voice 20th Anniversary Celebration, the University of Southern California, PhD in Literature/Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside University of Southern California's Masters of Professional Writing Program and University of Redlands Creative Writing Program,The Associated Writing Programs (AWP) will host the AWP 2001 CONFERENCE in April in Palm Springs, CA.

This year AWP and Web Del Sol are hosting Web Fair 2001 where Writers, poets, teachers, technical gurus, editors, and new media artists of all kinds will be presenting, discussing, showing films, and Webcasting events.

Among this years' many AWP Conference sessions are:

• Thursday, April 19

  A COLLAR OF A DIFFERENT COLOR: POETS OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY
  Robert McDowell, moderator, Ginger Andrews, John Barr, Clemens Starck

  RETHINKING "PO BIZ" - MFA CULTURE & THE LIFE OF AMERICAN POETRY
  Alan Soldofsky, Jonathan Holden, Judith E. Johnson

  FICTION ON THE EDGE
  Stacy Bierlein & Gina Frangello, co-moderators, Aimee Bender, Don DeGrazia, Cris Mazza

  Web Fair 2001
  STRUGGLES IN NET PUBLISHING: ELECTRONIC VS. TRADITIONAL, ONGOING COPYRIGHT ISSUES, PLAGIARISM, ETHICS, & ALL ELSE
  Robert Sward, moderator, Susan Terris, Joan Houlihan, Bruce Meyer, Ken Weisner, Richard Stevenson, William Minor. New Poets from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Ruth L. Schwartz, Anthony Vigil, Tim Seibles, Carol Potter, Alison Luterman

  Web Fair 2001
  EVOLUTION & REVOLUTION IN HYPERTEXTUAL MEDIA: THE FUTURE OF HYPERTEXT ON THE INTERNET
  Diane Greco, moderator, M.D. Coverley, Ed Falco

  GRAYWOLF PRESS READING
  Fiona McCrae, moderator, Dana Gioia, Fred Marchant, Clint McCown, Jason Shinder, Catie Rosemurgy, Alyson Hagy, Natasha Tretheway

• Friday, April 20

  WRITTEN IN STONE: PERMANENT PUBLIC ART FOR WRITERS
  Karla Elling & Alberto Rios

  FIRST BOOK POETRY MANUSCRIPTS: HOW DO THOSE CONTESTS WORK?
  Adela Najarro, moderator, Joy Manesiotis, Herbert Scott, David Dodd Lee, Lydia Melvin, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

  EXPERIMENTAL TEACHING/TEACHING THE EXPERIMENTAL
  Dick Hebdige, moderator, Mady Schutzman, Matias Viegener, Peter Gadol, Diana Wagman

  NEW HAVENS FOR WRITERS OF COLOR: VOICES WRITING WORKSHOPS, HURSTON/WRIGHT FOUNDATION, & CAVE CANEM
  Diem Jones, moderator, Quincy Troupe, Elmaz Abinader, Toi Derricotte, Marita Golden, Junot Diaz, Cornelius Eady

  CLMP/LPC: Nuts and Bolts
  STARTING AND OPERATING A SMALL LITERARY PRESS
  A discussion of interest to anyone interested in how a small press operates or considering starting a literary press. Panelists will discuss applying for nonprofit status, securing funding, contests, surviving transitions, design, printing, distribution, and other topics Tony Vallone, MAMMOTH books, chair; Joseph Bednarik, Copper Canyon Press; Steven Huff, BOA Editions, Ltd.; Martha Rhodes, Four Way Books

• Saturday, April 21

  YMCA National Writer's Voice Presents:
  THE MOVIE THAT IS GREAT WITHIN US
  Sundance Institute & the Literary Arts: A Reading & Discussion
  Jason Shinder, moderator, Sundance Writing Fellowship Program Fellows

  Web Fair 2001
  THE NET FRONTIER FOR INDEPENDENT PRESSES ON THE WEB; NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR MARKETING, ORDER FULFILLMENT, & READERSHIP
  Janna Rademacher, Graywolf; Joseph Bednarik, Copper Canyon; Steven Huff, BOA; Ed Williams, Scrivenery Press; Reb Livingston, SmallPress.Net

  FICTION: DOES TEACHING IT KILL CREATIVITY?
  Stephen Minot, Maxine Chernoff, William Luvaas, Robley Wilson

  READINGS FROM WORD OF MOUTH: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY AMERICAN POETRY
  Timothy Liu, moderator, D.A. Powell, Aaron Shurin, David Trinidad

Carolee Schneemann: MORE WRONG THINGS

In performance/body art pioneer Carolee Schneemann's site specific multi-channel video installation MORE WRONG THINGS, video loops juxtaposing personal and public disasters are seen on 14 monitors -- suspended from the ceiling in the disordered guts of wires and cables.

The installation's elements, which include a wall of recent Iris prints, integrate with the architectural aspects of the White Box gallery space, so the entire gallery space discloses a continuous onslaught of More Wrong Things.

For more information, contact White Box at tel: 212-714-2347

WEB SITE: http://www.whiteboxny.org

THE WRONG SHOW

"What conventions remain to be challenged? How can an artist continue to break the rules, when the art world may no longer have rules to break?....if contemporary art is a mirror held up to reflect upon the current culture and society, what happens when that art moves too close to the mirror and becomes the reflection itself? When this art pushes the envelope too far and becomes that which it sought to critique?"

THE WRONG SHOW highlights over 100 works of technically, socially, and politically incorrect art from the last few years.

"By breaking the rules, says Director of The Museum of New Art (MoNA) Jef Bourgeau, "the museum will run the usual gamut from violence to sex taboos: from Larry Clark's image of a kid with gun to some strong sexual work by Nobuyashi Araki."

"But hopefully more," Bourgeau continues, "breaking more conventional conventions -- Inez van Lamsweerde's fashion images, even though fashion seems to be the trend in museums now; Simen Johan's charged narratives of small children in frightening or surreal situations; Joel Witkin's cadavre images; socio-political art that is frowned on. Is it art, or propaganda? Kara Walker, Lyle Ashton Harris, Mark Beard, Hans Haake....."

Plus work by Hiroshi Kawakura, Anders Petersen, Ross Bleckner, Tom Thewes, Nina Glaser, Tom Baril, Robert Stivers, Richard Kern, Marta Maria Perez Bravo, Tracey Moffat and many others.

Sources/resources:

Founded last fall, THE MUSEUM OF NEW ART (MONA) is planning NEWTOPIA, middle America's first International biennial, for this September, to be followed in November, by the DETROIT VIDEO FESTIVAL. To accommodate the new activity, MoNA is moving to larger quarters in April. For more information write MoNA at its new address: 1249 Washington Blvd., No. 226, Detroit, MI 48226 or, call: 248-210-7560 Email: nextmuseum@aol.com

"Pontiac MI Dismisses Obscenity Ticket for FEAR NO ART"
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur070400.html
July 4, 2000 Volume 9, No. 27

Deadline: April 1, 2001 - THE MEDIA ARTS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FUND is designed to help non-profit media arts programs in New York State stabilize, strengthen, or restructure their media arts organizational capacity, services, and activities. The Fund provides up to $2,000 per project. The Technical Assistance Fund can assist with the hiring of professionals to help with organizational, managerial, and programming issues that influence media arts activities. There are four deadlines throughout the year. Organizations must be receiving support from the NYSCA's Electronic Media and Film Program. For information, contact: Experimental Television Center, 109 Lower Fairfield Rd., Newark Valley, NY 13811, phone/fax (607) 687-4341; email etc@experimentaltvcenter.org or visit http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org

Deadline: April 1, 2001- THE FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART awards grants between $2,000 and $5,000 to performance artists, allowing them to produce major works anywhere in the State of New York. Artists from all areas of the world are invited to apply. Franklin Furnace also accepts applications for THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT 2002. Franklin Furnace offers an honorarium (this year $3,000) and a month-long residency for producing live art on the Internet. Franklin Furnace arranges the residency at the Parsons School of Design (each artist is paired with MFA Design and Technology students and professionals), technical equipment, technical assistance, and an appropriate public venue for the project. For information, contact: Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., 45 John St., #611, New York, NY 10038; phone (212) 766-2606; email info@franklinfurnace.org or visit http://www.franklinfurnace.org

Deadline: April 1, 2001 - THE AZARIAN-MCCULLOUGH ART GALLERY is Rockland County's newest public exhibition space located on the campus of St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, New York, 30 minutes north of Manhattan. Artists interested in exhibiting for the Fall 2001-Spring 2002 year should send an SASE for information and an application by April 1, 2001 to: G. Murray, Director, Azarian-McCullough Art Gallery, 125 Route 340, Sparkill, NY 10976; or email gmurray@stac.edu

SALT LAKE CITY, UT --The 2002 Cultural Olympiad of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, in collaboration with the Utah Arts Council, has announced the recipients of the 2002 Cultural Olympiad Heritage Invitational Grants. Sixty-six applications were received, with thirty grants awarded. Grant amounts ranged from $1,550 to $3,000.

"Thanks to the Salt Lake Organizing Committee's Cultural Olympiad, thirty Utah cities and organizations will be celebrating the Olympics in their own hometowns," said Bonnie Stephens, Director of the Utah Arts Council.

Recipients include: the Utah State Poetry Society for simultaneous poetry readings by Utah poets in Logan, Ogden, Bountiful, Salt Lake City, Provo, Cedar City, and St. George; Nizhoni Bridges for a Midwinter Artist Series featuring multiple performances in the Utah Navajo Reservation and the community of Blanding; the Utah Regional Ballet for a performance of THE LEGEND OF TIMPANOGOS choreographed by Jacqueline Colledge; and the Utah Valley Symphony for two multimedia concerts at the Provo Tabernacle featuring compositions by Utah composers and arrangers; and many others including Fairview Museum of History and Art and Park City Summit County Arts Council.

To be held during the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics, the 2002 Cultural Olympiad is an Olympic Arts Festival which willlion to the 2002 Cultural Olympiad of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee along with additional contributions to three participating organizations: the Utah Symphony, Utah Opera and Ballet West.

"My grandparents, Jess and Joe Quinney, introduced us to skiing at Alta when we were very young. A year or so later I recall going to my first concert given by the Utah Symphony. So, in a very natural way, I have always had a love of both skiing and the arts," Rick Lawson said. The Lawsons are strong supporters of art and community programs in Utah.

Sources/resources:

THE UTAH ARTS COUNCIL -- http://www.dced.state.ut.us/arts/

SALT LAKE 2020.COM -- http://www.saltlake2002.com

"2002 Cultural Olympiad And The Pioneer Theatre Company Announce Play Commissions"
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur090400.html
September 4, 2000

"One of the best ways to Fool April is to attend the first International Edible Books High/Low Tea. . Yep, you read right. Edible books. As in, gnaw on a novel, chomp on a chapbook, scarf science fiction, pack away poetry, munch on a memoir, and as for autobiographies, well, you are what you eat....." Peter Frank, LA WEEKLY

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL EDIBLE BOOK HIGH-LOW TEA will be held on Sunday April 1, 2001 throughout the world. Edible books -- works of art which are edible and have something to do with books -- will be exhibited from 2- 4 PM in most places. (depending on the time zone involved) At 4 PM tea and/or coffee will be served and the "books" will be consumed.

The event can be used as a fundraiser for art and/or book centers throughout the world, according to Judith Hoffberg, founder and editor of Umbrella/Umbrella Editions.

Last year the event was hosted all around the world -- from New York City to Australia -- at venues including The Center for Book Arts; (NYC) Matiere Contact; (Lyon, France) the Argyle-Zebra Gallery; (St. Paul, MN) the School of Art at Arizona State University in Tempe; the San Francisco Center for the Book; Mesa College; (San Diego, CA) and Papermakers of Victoria. (Australia)

Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts event featured an airplane cookie SWATCH BOOK by Robert Hammer, a WHITE CHOCOLATE POETRY KIT by Doug Thome and FISHY stories by Lisa Mendez, among many others. Edible books at The Printer in Findlay OH included A SHORT HISTORY OF FAST FOOD and EAT MY WORDS.

"Start organizing the event now and try to get book artists and artists in general to participate in this unforgettable event! Let me know if you are participating well enough ahead of time for press releases," Hoffberg suggests.

As was last year's Edible Book Hihg Tea, the event will be documented online. For documentation of last year's event and details about how to participate in this year's event, visit http://www.geocities.com/books2eat

UMBRELLA/UMBRELLA EDITIONS website -- http://colophon.com/journal
Judith Hoffberg can be contacted at Email: umbrella@ix.netcom.com

Opportunities for Artists

The Digital Divide Network (DDN) is a national coalition of non-profit institutions and IT companies working together to help bridge the digital divide. The network's website -- DigitalDivideNetwork.org -- is a resource to raise awareness about the gulf that exists between those citizens who have access to information technology and the skills to use it effectively, and those who do not.

They are encouraging individuals to submit articles (of preferably 700-1500 words) which address the digital divide from a variety of social, cultural, political and/or economic perspectives.

"Our hope is to provide a forum for educators, policy professionals, community leaders and practitioners to share their experiences so that others might learn from their experiences," the DDN states.

Topics of interest include: The importance of crafting content that is culturally relevant; The challenges of creating a community technology center; and The spectrum of literacy skills needed to overcome the digital divide.

Contact Kade Twist, Policy Associate, Benton Foundation at Email: kade@benton.org for more information

Deadline: March 8, 2001, lesbian writers: poetry and fiction, THE LESBIAN WRITERS FUND, ASTRAEA

Deadline: April 15, 2001, film and video artists, WORKING WATERFRONT ASSOCIATION, TUGBOAT FILM FESTIVAL, NYC

Details about these and other opportunities are available on Arts Wire's Web Site at http://www.artswire.org/current/calls.html

To submit "calls" for either artists or organizations, send email to artswire@artswire.org

BOSTON, MA-- The second annual Music Career Expo and Job Fair 2001, for music students, music college alumni, and anyone interested in a music career takes place on Sunday, February 25, 2001 from 11:30 AM until 10:00 PM at the Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street, Boston.

Author and music attorney Donald S. Passman, author of ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MUSIC BUSINESS, (Simon & Schuster) will be the keynote speaker.

Diverse panels of music professionals will discuss strategies for success in all realms and genres of the music industry, and provide answers based on their expertise in a variety of music-related fields. Panel topics will include Technology Impact-Napster: Good or Evil?; Paths for Classical Musicians; Multimedia Opportunities, and many others.

Workshop sessions will provide for more focused, small-group interactions with individual panelists. Specialized workshops will be led by industry representatives and will cover a variety of music career options and topics including Record Production on a Budget; Stagecraft; How to Place Your Songs on Radio; Film Scoring/Composition; and Inside the Record Deal.

Among the panel moderators will be Mike Dreese; (Berklee trustee, and CEO, Newbury Comics) Don Rose; (Berklee trustee, and Chairman, Rykodisc) Paul Foley; (General Manager, Rounder Records) Maurice Methot; (Professor of Media and Visual Arts, Emerson College) and Mark Kates (President, Grand Royal Records).

Exhibitors will feature information on services and resources designed to help participants grow in their music careers. Among the exhibitors are the Boston Musicians Association; Daddys Junky Music; Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts; M. Steinert & Sons; USAF Band of Liberty; Northeast Performer; The Recording Academy of New York; Mark of the Unicorn; and Radio Boston.com.

In the evening, several companies will also offer employment opportunity presentations and provide first-stage employment interviews where there is a mutual interest. Companies recruiting at the event include Tweeter; Boston Public Schools; Sweetwater Sound; Carney, Sandoe & Associates; and Cakewalk Music Software. Companies seeking performers include Walt Disney Entertainment; The Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles; and ProShip Entertainment.

This years expo will also feature a Berklee College of Music student and alumni music showcase where a variety of singer/songwriters and bands will perform. A listening station will also be available so that audiences can hear CDs of all the student and alumni music that was submitted for this opportunity.

For more information, or to register for the event, call 617-747-8970, or go to the Berklee website at http://www.berklee.edu

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, The Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County, (Fayetteville, NC)

DIRECTOR, School of Art, Design and Art History, San Diego State University, (San Diego, CA)

EXECUTIVE MANAGING DIRECTOR, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (Troy, NY)

VISITING FACULTY, Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, (Pittsburgh, PA)

LECTURER IN ART TEXTILES/FIBERS, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, (Green Bay, WI)

BALLET TEACHER, Dance Department, Tisch School of the Arts
New York University, (New York City, NY)

FILMMAKER OR VIDEO ARTIST, CalArts, (Valencia, CA)

GRAPHIC ARTS INSTRUCTOR, Delta College, (Stockton, CA)

PERFORMING ARTISTS, PAA Artist Roster Auditions, (Chicago; Ann Arbor)

PROGRAM DIRECTOR, Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative, (Philadelphia, PA)

REGISTRAR, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, (New York City, NY)

REGISTRARS, (museum clients)(Nationwide)

GUEST CURATOR, The Educational Alliance Art School and Gallery (New York City, NY)

WEB MASTER, (arts/media/broadcast org) (Brooklyn, NY)

ADMINISTRATION & TECHNOLOGY MANAGER, Creative Time, (New York City, NY)

CURATOR OF EDUCATION, The Zimmerli Art Museum, (New Brunswick, NJ)

CURATOR OF EDUCATION, Polk Museum of Art, (Lakeland, FL)

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER, (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago) (Chicago, CA)

SOUND PERSON/HOUSE MANAGER; BOX OFFICE INTERN; PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERN, Birch Creek Music Performance Center, (Egg Harbor, WI)

OPERATIONS/BOOKING MANAGER, (concert hall), (New York City)

DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT, Shakespeare Festival/LA , (Los Angeles, CA)

MANAGING DIRECTOR, Bluemont Concert Series, (Leesburg, VA)

COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, ArtsConnection, (New York City)

DEVELOPMENT/COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE, Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center, (New York City, NY)

MARKETING AND PUBLICITY ASSOCIATE, Dance Theater Workshop, (New York City, NY)

MARKETING & PROGRAMMING ADMINISTRATOR, Dance Forum-New York, (New York City, NY)

MANAGER OF DONOR SERVICES, The Washington Ballet, (Washington, DC)

MANAGER OF CORPORATE & FOUNDATION GIFTS, The Washington Ballet, (Washington, DC)

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, The Independent Feature Project, (New York City, NY)

ASSOCIATE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, Lines Ballet, (San Francisco, CA)

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES, Studio in a School, (New York City, NY)

DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT, The MERIT Music Program, (Chicago, IL)

DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION, (museum client) (New York, NY)

OFFICE MANAGER AND ADMINISTRATION, Elsie Management, (Brooklyn NY)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Antique Frame Gallery, (New York City, NY)

FELLOWSHIP POSITIONS, Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, (Pittsburgh, PA)

INTERNSHIPS, Chicago Opera Theater, (Chicago, IL)

Details about these and other jobs are available on Arts Wire's Web Site at http://www.artswire.org/current/jobs.html

To submit jobs to ARTS WIRE CURRENT JOBS, send email to joblist@artswire.org

A growing list of links to job resources for artists and arts administrators is available on Arts Wire's Web Site at http://www.artswire.org/current/jobres.html

Arts Wire's ARTQUARRY (formerly WEBBASE) is a searchable database of arts related websites available on Arts Wire's public home page at http://www.artswire.org/artquarry

Created as a public service to help the online arts community to keep abreast of arts sites and for arts websters to promote their new or renovated sites to an arts audience, ArtQuarry, (and WebBase before it) has served the web since 1996.

Artists and art organizations are invited to visit ArtQuarry both to search art sources and to add their sites. Among the recent entries are:

Based in Albany, NY, 2 BROADS WITH ALOTTA SOUND -- http://www.angelfire.com/band/2broads -- is "a musical duo of unequaled spirit, variety and dimension," performing light jazz and many styles including a one hour musicale called A MUSICAL JOURNEY THROUGH LOVE.

Located in Wausau, Wisconsin, the LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM -- http://www.lywam.org -- features "special exhibitions, dynamic education programs, collections rooted in bird imagery, and sculpture-filled gardens to delight visitors of all ages."

THE WOMEN'S THEATRE COMPANY -- http://community.nj.com/cc/wtc -- offers a creative, educational environment for emerging and established theatre artists to develop, practice and produce their crafts while providing a venue for the public "to participate in the magic that only live theatre can bring to the community." In addition to workshop productions staged readings of new plays written by women playwrights, WTC offers touring productions, residency programs, and drama classes to the Northern New Jersey Community.

Arts Wire's website at http://www.artswire.org is a central place to visit the cyberhomes of the diverse artists and art organizations who are Arts Wire members. This week CURRENT invites readers to visit the home page of THE GREEN ARTS WEB.

The GREEN ARTS WEB -- http://www.greenarts.org -- is a source for those who want to be more informed about the practices and theories of environmental art.

The site contains an Artists and Projects section which provides links to artists' sites and projects, including EcoArt exhibitions; a Reference section which serves as a point of reference for those who want to research contemporary art and theory regarding our natural environment; and a Community section which provides links to organizations, agencies, services, and educational institutions that, in part or in whole, have set a precedent or provide support for linking the arts and creativity to the environment.

Collaboratively compiled by Maureen Dawley, Educator and Art Librarian, Hunt Library, Carnegie Mellon University; (research) Ann Rosenthal, environmental artist and educator (site design) and Laura Audrey, environmental and public artist, and educator, (site programming) The Green Arts Web envisions "an expansive role for artists as catalysts in valuing the interrelationships between human and non-human nature in our daily lives."

Visit the site to find out more.

ST PAUL, MN -- As of January 2001, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution -- which distributes an International group of independent publishers, such as Cinco Puntos Press, Coffee House, Copper Canyon, The Feminist Press at CUNY, Red Crane, and White Pine -- has announced the addition of several new publishers, including City Lights Publishers and Image Continuum Press, to their list.

Founded by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Publishers, (San Francisco, CA) has focused on cutting-edge fiction, poetry, memoirs, literary translations, and books on compelling social and political issues. Recent titles include WHOSE SONG? AND OTHER STORIES by Thomas Glave; THE BACK ROOM by Carmen Martin Gaite, translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane; and CODEX ESPANGLIENSIS: FROM COLUMBUS TO THE BORDER PATROL by Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Enrique Chagoya, and Felicia Rice.

Image Continuum Press (Eugene, OR) was founded as a support group for artists, concentrating on the private publication and circulation of original collaborative artists portfolios, journals, and letters. They publish ART & FEAR by David Bayles and Ted Orland, an artists survival guide, written by and for working artists.

Consortium will also be the exclusive U.S. and Canadian distributor for Grey Fox Press, Creation Books, Millivres Prowler Group, and the US distributor only for ticktock Publishing.

Additionally, as part of a new and developing partnership, Consortium and Small Press Distribution, (SPD) a non-profit literary arts organization and a wholesaler dedicated exclusively to independently published literature, plan to coordinate marketing outreach to bookstores, libraries and individuals. Current collaboration includes adjacent placement at trade shows, coadvertising, referrals and information sharing.

Consortium's web site -- http://www.cbsd.com/homebft001.cfm -- features a search engine which allows access to a broad array of titles from independent publishers. Among the new/forthcoming titles from independent publishers retrievable with this search engine are:

Bobby Arellano
FAST EDDIE, KING OF THE BEES
Brooklyn, NY, Akashic Books, Spring 2001
"An abandoned child hustles on the streets of a dystopic, near-future Boston in the aftermath of the Great Devaluation-squatters have turned the tunnel system into an underground hive known as Dig City. In an elaborate search for his unknown parents, Eddie narrates through several levels of deception: street performer, pickpocket, adoptee, casino employee, and finally commander of the subterranean revolution...a convoluted Oedipal adventure blending low-brow scenarios with high-art diction, reminiscent of Robert Coover, John Hawkes, and Edmund White."

Merlinda Bobis
THE KISSING, A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
San Francisco, CA, Aunt Lute Books, Spring 2001
"A collection of short stories by established Filipina-Australian poet and fiction-writer Merlinda Bobis. Set in both Australia and the Philippines, the stories here are bold and lyrical vignettes about postcolonial experience, poetic riffs both epic in scope and intimate in detail."

Simon Bent
ACCOMPLICES
New York City, NY, Theatre Communications Group, 2001
"Eddie's a handy man, Doreen keeps a clean house, John's got a new hat and Paul's back from college--but the Jacksons are living under siege. Sudden violence blows open their lives in the latest darkly comic play from Simon Bent."

Maurice Kenny
STORIES FOR A WINTER'S NIGHT
Buffalo, NY, White Pine Press, 2000
"Stories are for a winter night when the lodge is warm from a good wood fire. This anthology is a portable lodge of stories meant to enchant, teach, and excite our imaginations with tales by contemporary Native American writers including Silko, Harjo, Blue Cloud, Rose, Williams, and other established and emerging writers."

Molly Peacock, ed
THE PRIVATE PRIVACY IN A PUBLIC WORLD
St. Paul, MN, Graywolf Press, 2001
"Writers tackle the issue of privacy on many levels: global, communal, and the very personal. Subjects include a look at the implications of surveillance technology; an exploration of teen web sites and the lives of the girls who make them; and thoughts on the polarity of a warm, sometimes claustrophobic, Latin community vs. cold North American isolation ....an eclectic group of writers including literary luminaries including Yusef Komunyakaa, Jonathan Franzen, and Kathleen Norris, but also Cathleen Medwick, a writer for house and home magazines; Barbara Feldon best known as Agent 99 in Get Smart; and a prison inmate."

Rebecca Wee
UNCERTAIN GRACE
Port Townsend WA, Copper Canyon Press, 2001
"In her first collection of poems Wee has created a poetic mosaic in which individual pieces and fragments both inform and distort the "wholes" (lines, images, poems, the book itself) which they create....Lyrical, moody, diffuse, these poems mine tension and explore the artist's impulse to make beautiful art out of terrible human suffering, to give voice to those not in a position to speak for themselves."

Sources/resources:

CONSORTIUM BOOK SALES & DISTRIBUTION -- http://www.cbsd.com/homebft001.cfm

SMALL PRESS DISTRIBUTION (SPD) -- http://www.spdbooks.org

BOOKSENSE -- http://www.booksense.com
Many independent titles are available from this new independent booksellers web site. After you select a book, Booksense.com asks you to enter your zip code, it then pulls up the nearest ndependent bookstore which will fill your order online. (or you can visit the store!)