miXed mediA WEBSITES
CliCk operA
The whimsical diary of Momus,
singer, performer, art critic,
provocateur… the list could go on
and on. One day he is in Berlin
discussing fashion, the next he’s
in New York (or was it Tokyo?)
hopping from one exhibition
opening to another.

ArtAbASe http://imomus.livejournal.com
A brand new ‘Social Networking
website for the arts’, Artabase
is still in beta, but it already Artworld SAlon
proclaims its ambition to ‘become An online discussion initiated by
the world’s best online database three art experts and fuelled by
of art history’. Good luck with a list of ‘approved’ art historians,
that one! In the meantime, critics, curators and journalists.
the platform dutifully informs These guys are not in it for fun.
you of what’s going on in the They comment on a range of
galleries and allows you to add contemporary art world topics,
artist profiles and exhibition sometimes with clear and
announcements to the list. engaging insight, sometimes with
the File room annoyingly conservative opinions.
www.artabase.net Created in 1994 by artist Antonio
Muntadas, the File Room collects www.artworldsalon.com
data on social and cultural
censorship. The topics most likely
to attract blackout are the ones
you’d expect: sexuality, sexual
orientation, political opinion,
religious views and anything in
between. The size of the archive
suggests that updating it must
be a fulltime job.

www.thefileroom.org
the muSeum oF
online muSeumS
The MoOM takes you from
classic cultural repositories like the
Musée d’Orsay, in Paris, to some
downright bizarre museums that,
I suspect, could only exist
on a computer screen: the Gallery
of Girls in 60’s Car Ads or the
impressive Airline Spoons of
the World.
dot

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