netPOWER contains "mirrors" of various museum Web sites. By mirroring, we mean that we've stored locally on this CD-ROM the Web pages you would see if you were cruising the Internet and accessed the particular museum's net address. We've chosen Web sites that are particularly rich in graphics, and also heavily trafficked. This way, you'll be able to easily access these sites, without having to wait as long for downloads and displays as you would if you were travelling over the net.

One thing to remember is that some of the functions of the Web pages we've mirrored on this disc may not work. For instance, image-maps (pictures that, when clicked on, link you to another page) are turned off on the CD-ROM. Also, pages that have forms on them won't work, because the Web site's server needs to process the information you send it. In addition, it is beyond the scope of this CD to mirror links that would take you to sites external to the ones we've mirrored <g>. If a page on the CD-ROM has a link to a page that needs a site's server (like a form), or if the link is to a site that is not on the CD-ROM, the link will have this ( ) arrow by it. You can access that link if you have an active connection to the Internet.

The mirror versions of museum sites this month are:

The Russian Chronicles produced by FocalPoint f/8, an experimental design and production group for new digital and democratic journalism on the World Wide Web. The Russian Chronicles is FocalPoint f/8's first experiment in realtime, online, interactive photojournalism. The project began September 11th, 1995 in Vladivostok, Russia, when Contact Press Images' photographer Gary Matoso and writer Lisa Dickey embarked upon a 5,000 mile, two month journey across the Russian heartland. They are traveling with a high resolution Kodak 420 DCS digital camera and two laptop computers, recording their digital stories as they go and relaying them back to FocalPoint f/8 in San Francisco via SprintMail's international email network every two to three days, where they are being posted here at FocalPoint f/8 in The Russian Chronicles. You can follow along with them on their journey there, and even communicate with them directly via the MailBox section. Special thanks to Tripp Mikich for making this mirror on netPOWER happen.
SOURCE URL: http://www.worldmedia.fr:9000/russia/

The University Art Museum/Pacific Film ArchiveThe University Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (UAM/PFA) is the principal visual arts center of the University of California at Berkeley, and one of the largest university art museums in the world. As a center for visual culture, the UAM/PFA is more than the sum of its two parts. It makes available to its audience the scholarly resources of an eminent university, while bringing to students and the public the best and most challenging art and film produced. The UAM offers six galleries of art from its collections (Asian, pre-Twentieth Century European, and Modern, including a gallery devoted to the work of Hans Hofmann); five galleries of changing exhibitions, including the MATRIX Program of contemporary art; and a sculpture garden. The PFA has one of the nation's most comprehensive film exhibition programs, featuring works of independent film and video, rare prints of classic cinema, and retrospectives of world cinema. PFA maintains a film and video collection of over 7,000 titles. The PFA Library and Film Study Center is open to the public. Special thanks to the site's Webmaster, Richard Rhinehardt, for all of his help and hard work.
SOURCE URL: http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/

Audio and video clips are available in the path indicated by this () disc icon.


These sites were current when originally mirrored. Given the ephemeral nature of the Web, the actual sites probably have more content now! All sites were mirrored with the permission of the owners and copyright is retained by these owners.

If you maintain a Web site for a non-profit museum or gallery, and would like to be mirrored on a future edition of netPOWER!, please contact us at netpower@thenet-usa.com.


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