"TVALUE": "BROWSER\r\n\r\nBrowser is an exhibition constructed as an archive or an archive constructed as an exhibition. Artists have submitted work to the project with the sole limitation that it should be storable within a standard Hollinger archival box. In this way every artist, whether established or less well known, has equivalent representation within the project. The boxes do not only contain artworks, but other material which might indicate how artists work.\r\n\r\nBrowser is not a fixed exhibition, rather it is an assembled archive-like resource which can be explored, analyzed and reconfigured by its audience. The audience is invited to make journeys through the wealth of material, to discover artists and to search for common threads between one form of artistic practice and another.\r\n\r\nBrowser has emerged from the important local, yet short history of large, inclusive exhibitions and smaller, selected exhibitions. It is an attempt to provide a structure which is able to be as inclusive and representative as is possible. Every working artist in British Columbia was welcome to participate. However, no extended experience of any exhibition can function interestingly without a selective, critical faculty. With Browser, we hope that the audience will be the ones actively engaged in this way. \r\n\r\nThere are many ways to approach Browser. The audience may search the database on the Browser CD, talk with the Browser staff, or simply wander through the exhibition space.\r\n\r\nIf you choose to search the database you may do so in two fundamental ways: by an index of words which includes artists' names or subject terms; or by searching the descriptions of the artists' works and collections. Each standard description contains: a consignment number which is also the container number; the name or names of the creator/s; the title; physical description (how much and of what kind it is); a brief biographical statement; a note on scope and content of the material describing in a little more detail the content of each box; notes about statements by artists or unusual aspects of the material; as well as a photograph of the content of each box. \r\n\r\nThe Browser CD presents a record of artists who have chosen to participate in Browser, to the date of this CD production. Although what is presented gives a very large indication of material received prior to the moment of going to press with this CD, it is not necessarily representative of all that is accepted into the exhibition. \r\n\r\nKitty Scott, Andrew Renton, Curators.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe BROWSER Catalogue\r\n\r\nThe Browser Collection catalogue represents an extraordinary confluence of material consigned by British Columbia artists and related practitioners for the exhibition \"Browser\" presented by the A. T. Eight Artropolis Society at the Roundhouse, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 25 to November 23, 1997. Amassing the considerable visual and textual representation of the two hundred and forty-five consignments at the time of going to press with the catalogue, with more received additionally until the close of the exhibition, has been made possible only with the equally extraordinary efforts of the curators, curatorial assistants, consulting staff, and those who generously volunteered to assist the registration and reception of material, and all those who assisted the preparation and production of the this CD-ROM catalogue. To the participating artists and related practitioners is owed a special mark of thanks for supplying keywords together with their consignments, with which to begin the index to this mass of descriptive texts, and so initiating the 'browsing' function for this catalogue.\r\n\r\nTimothy Savage, Archivist.\r\n\r\n\r\nCredits - Artropolis 97 Browser\r\n\r\nCurators: Andrew Renton and Kitty Scott\r\nProject Manager: Gayle Webster\r\nAssistant Project Manager : Annie Chenn\r\nCuratorial Assistants: Kira Wu, Tamara Ewashen, Katherine Stout\r\nVolunteer Coordinator: Susan Buie\r\nComputer Systems Analyst: Stan Liu\r\nOffice Assistant: Chantal Rousseau\r\nArchivist: Timothy Savage\r\nExhibition Design: Graham Bolton and Andrew Butler\r\nGraphic Design: Derek Barnett and Shelle Guhle\r\nPhotography (Browser Catalogue): Herman Kao\r\nRoundhouse Community Centre Arts Programmer: Elizabeth Kidd\r\nBoard of Directors: Michael Choy, Eric Fiss, Lorne Greenberg, Hanif Jan Mohamed, Judith Mastai, Lorrie Miller, Celine Rich\r\n\r\nCopyright © 1997 A. T. Eight Artropolis Society \r\n"
