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Arts Wire
``` Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 15:12:14 GMT From: kanter@tmn.com Subject: Arts Wire's Web-Based Conferencing System
ARTS WIRE ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE ARTS A Program of The New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, October 12, 1995
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@artswire.org or come visit:
* The Arts Wire Public Web page: http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/awfront.html* The New York Foundation for the Arts Home page: http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/nyfa.html
For Arts Wire subscription information, contact artswire@artswire.org
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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.
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OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
* 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.* 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.* 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@artswire.org ```
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