One Irish artist making the most of the possibilities of the Web is Conor McGarrigle. His Stunned ArtZine at www.stunned.org combines a showcase for artists in traditional media with some striking Web-based work and a host of links and gallery listings.
"Rather than create a personal site," he states, "I decided to create a community site which would show the work of many artists, a permanent online exhibition space which would be run by the artists." Although Irish in origin, the site has an international flavour - featuring work from several international artists - and Mc Garrigle adds that another aim was to create a forum "where Irish artists could interact with their colleagues from around the globe".
Conor McGarrigle's own Web-art project Play-lets, one of the highlights of the site, is among 13 art sites selected for the Siggraph 99 (www.siggraph.org/s99/) computer graphics conference in Los Angeles next month. He is also to speak at the conference.
The Stunned site has been redesigned and its development plan has been grant-aided by the Arts Council, a first for a Webonly arts organisation, says McGarrigle. For the next year, he says the site will focus on Web-art, "particularly collaborative projects between Irish and overseas artists".