[IMC-Editorial] Announcing The Bomb Project - an online resource

[Joy Garnett]

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For Immediate Release: Fall 2002

The Bomb Project
http://www.thebombproject.org


The Bomb Project is a comprehensive on-line compendium of nuclear-related
links, imagery and documentation. It is intended specifically as a
resource for artists, and encourages those working in all media, from
net.art, film and video, eco-intervention and site-specific installation
to more traditional forms of agitprop, to use this site to search for raw
material. The Bomb Project has gathered together links to nuclear image
archives (still and moving), historical documents, current news, NGOs and
activist organizations as well as government labs and arms treaties. It
makes accessible the declassified files and graphic documentation produced
by the nuclear industry itself, providing a context for comparative study,
analysis and creativity.



"The Bomb Project is the 'data, debris and aesthetics of the nuclear arms
race considered in an art context.'" -- Bruce Sterling, InfiniteMatrix.net

"The availability of online material struck Garnett as she researched an
earlier project (painting pictures of nuclear explosions), and the
resulting site provides a frightening and visual testament to the nuclear
phenomenon. From stunning 'sunsets' to reading lists, exposes of radiation
leaks, links to visual arts projects and up-to-the-minute news feeds, this
is a rich resource." --Helen Varley Jameson, Rhizome.org

"Joy Garnett dazzles viewers with declassified images of atomic tests.
They range from views of gorgeous mushroom clouds to grisly pix of nuked
dogs [sic] and remind us, yet again, of the precariousness of apres-Cold
War life." --Robert Atkins, MediaChannel.org

"If one of net art's hallowed goals is to use the network to greater
aesthetic advantage, I can think of no more spectacular way to do that
than the method Joy Garnett has chosen here." --Lewis Lacook,
Furtherfield.org




http://www.thebombproject.org