ANAT's new residency project Login: has begun, with the first of four residencies for emerging visual artists being undertaken by Anita Kocsis at 200 Gertrude Street in Melbourne.

Supported by the Visual Arts Craft Fund of the Australia Council, Login: aims to assist visual artists in the development of web based projects. The pilot year of the project involves four residencies/research projects for Australian artists, run in partnership with members of the Contemporary Art Organisations (CAOs) network. 200 Gertrude Street (Melbourne), 24 Hour Art (Darwin), Canberra Contemporary Art Space and Boomalli (Sydney) will be hosting the physical component of the residencies.

The Login: residencies will provide the participating artists with access computers and the internet, as well as the critical and cultural context of the host arts organisations. The artists will also have access to server space, some technical support and the support of an online community. The intention of Login: is to provide emerging artists with an opportunity to explore, experiment and participate in the connectivity of the internet. Artists will be given opportunities to develop new skills and create new works, which may encompass web-based interactive artworks, virtual environments, web-tv programs, web-based software or artificial life projects, CUSeeMe and Real Audio performances.

200 Gertrude Street: Anita Kocsis, an artist who works in installation and painting within a digital context, will undertake the Login: residency at 200 Gertrude Street in Melbourne. She investigates "immersion environments" with an emphasis on hybridising 3D computer worlds.

In 97 Anita attended the 7th ANAT National Summer school in web authoring and internet site design and began to collaborate with the artist collective, nervous-objects. nervous-objects is an eclectic, accidental experiment in internet artistic collaboration. Together they digest bandwidth, explore notions of realtime internet conferencing and the manipulation of artistic pursuit in virtual and physical space.

Presently Anita is constructing an architectural model of her mind processes called Brainworld. For Login: Anita will be undertaking an adjunct to this existing project, called Photonpsycho (a visual protoplasm).

"My main methodology has to do with an interest in a multidimensional transformative practice rather than adhering to the transcriptive language the web provides. As a functioning nervous_object these ideas also intersect within the constructs of the net-collaborations. The outcome is continual."

Project Aims and Guidelines (Note: Applications for Login have closed)