What is this?

Tumblong is a production site for new art on the World Wide Web. The art is about the connection between Australia and Britain in the past, present and future.

The essence of the Tumblong site is interaction amoung artists and the public. The starting points for the new art are a series of cultural artefacts linking the two countries. They have been selected by participating cultural institutions from either their collections or the public domain. We want a dynamic network of artists, institutions and the public, collaborating in the production of new art on the Web.

Four artists are working on the site for three months commencing February, 1998 - Brook Andrew and Elizabeth Gertsakis in Australia, and Susan Collins and Graham Gussin in Britain. Their art can be produced in any medium. We are making digital records of their work in progress every week or so, and putting it up on the Web for everyone to see and react to.

Anyone can participate, from anywhere in the world. If you have got something to say about this project, why don't you join the artists and production team in the discussion forum at the Crossroads. At Crossroads we will link to any site anywhere in the world where people are making their own creative response to the artefacts and art at Tumblong.At Signposts the production team will be suggesting their own set of links (updated weekly) to what they think is hot at Tumblong.

Tumblong is a joint project of the Institute for Interactive Multimedia at UTS and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University, in collaboration with cultural institutions in Australia and Britain. The Arts Council of England and the Australia Council for the Arts have provided the funding for the artists' fees.