Connect Summer 1996:  THE DIGITAL ARTS

Internet Tools for the Artist:
Programs to Get Your Work Onto the Network and Out to Your Audience

Jeffrey Bary

[Ed: Links to web pages which have become inactive since the publication of this article have been enclosed in curly brackets { }. Replacement links have been provided where possible.]

Program Media and Resolution (in pixels) Initiated by Realtime? Participation Audience Web? Bandwidth URL
E-mail text; binary data encoded only sender no open small built-in any none
Mailing Lists text; binary data encoded only sender no can be moderated medium built-in any none
News text; binary data encoded only receiver no open large built-in any {http://www.sils.umich.edu/~fprefect/inet/using/news.html}
Talk text only sender send, receive open small no any {http://www.sils.umich.edu/~fprefect/inet/desc/talk.html}
Internet Relay Chat text only sender send, receive can be moderated medium no any {http://urth.acsu.buffalo.edu/irc/WWW/ircdocs.html}
Gopher and FTP text and binary data receiver no open large built-in any {gopher://mudhoney.micro.umn.edu:70/00/Gopher.FAQ}
CU-SeeMe text, stills, audio, video; b&w 160x120 & 320x240 both send, receive can be moderated small helper 28Kmodem or network {http://www.indstate.edu/msattler/sci-tech/comp/CU-SeeMe/index.html}
Apple Media Conference video, audio, whiteboard; color: 160x120, 320x240 both send, receive can be moderated small no 28Kmodem or network {http://qtc.quicktime.apple.com/}
MBone video, audio, whiteboard; color: 640x480 both send, receive open small no direct network only {http://www.best.com/~prince/techinfo/mbone.html}
WWW & Netscape text, stills, animation, audio; color receiver no open large browser 28Kmodem or network {http://home.mcom.com/}
RealAudio audio; single channel FM quality receiver receive on demand open medium helper 28Kmodem or network {http://www.prognet.com/}
Replacement URL: http://www.real.com/]
VDOLive video, audio; color: 160x120, 320x240 receiver receive on demand open medium helper 28Kmodem or network {http://www.vdolive.com/}
The Palace text, text-to-speech, audio, whiteboard; color: 640x480 receiver send, receive can be moderated medium helper 14Kmodem or network http://www.thepalace.com/
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Jeffrey Bary is a Senior Arts Technologist with the ACF Arts Technology Group.
[Ed: Now known as the ITS Arts Technology Group.]
jeffrey.bary@nyu.edu

Posted 20 May 1996. Reviewed 26 January 2004.