Question ‘Urbanity’. IO_dencies locates urbanity in a field generated by city inhabitants and by the city itself as an emancipated partner. Non-hierachical electronic networks provide experimental fields for other ways of collaborative/ connective ways of dealing with urban forces. This tool reads the forces present in particular urban situations, and offers experimental collaborative interfaces for dealing with these force fields. The aim, however, is not to develop advanced tools for architectural and urban design, but to create events through which it becomes possible to rethink urban planning and construction. By using special tools (”attractors”), Internet users may intervene in these force fields. Every modification in these zones changes the flows, and these interventions are displayed immediately. However, users see not only the changes and consequences of their own interventions, but also the interventions and desired changes effected by other users “working” in the same hypothetical urban area.

Francis Bacon’s art has to do with the human body, sex, violence and strong emotions. Usually strong colour staining an unprimed side of canvas, the raw surface provided the right �tooth� for his paint. Usually a figure was established in black and white and the face was handled with an urgent scrumbling effect. Quick brush edits and summary suggest an aggressive often violent handling.’The Mews Studio’ in South Kensington, London was Bacon’s home and working space for the last thirty years of his life and it was here that Bacon produced some of his best work. Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery removed the whole of Francis Bacon’s chaotic studio in August 1998. A team of archeologists mapped the entire studio space for accurate removal and reconstruction in Dublin. Over 7,000 items were cataloged into a newly designed database which visitors can scan through. Connect contents with creations at The Francis Bacon Image Gallery. Cunty-Web is a study for a web site on Francis Bacon otherwise known as:”an irreverent and levity-laden on-line look at the life and work of that great British artist and outrageous old homosexual, Francis Bacon. Yes, our task here at Cunty is to demythologize the old fag and explore his paintings and his milieu in a spirit of fun!” Don’t miss out.

The Virtual Collection is the Museum of Modern Art’s online database of work by artists with HIV/AIDS. 3,000 or so high-resolution images of works by 150 artists who have died of AIDS or are living with HIV/AIDS. The purpose is to make available a large body of art that might otherwise be lost or widely dispersed. Artists with work in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art who are also represented in the The Virtual Collection include Joe Brainard, Scott Burton, Keith Haring, Frank Moore, David Wojnarowicz and Martin Wong.

Words of Art compiled by Robert J. Belton of The Fine Arts Department at Okanagan University College in British Columbia, Canada, is a highly practical on-line glossary of theory and criticism for the visual arts. Hypertext links abound within the lexicon.