Turbulence is a project from New York outfit New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. Its purpose is to facilitate artistic work that explores the specific characteristics of the World Wide Web medium and makes use of multimedia and online technologies such as RealAudio, Java and VRML?The site presents works that allow users to interact with the content, add to it and feed the results back to the site. It will showcase work ranging from hypertext stories to hypermedia works - whether music-driven, sound-driven, text-driven,  graphics-driven or any combination of the above. Turbulence may include commercial art forms and avant garde forms. A first look at the site suggests that there?s some interesting work on offer here. Genetic ResponseSystem 3.0, byDiane Ludin, which uses search strings or ?viroids? to seek online data, tries to reflect ?the shifting boundaries between the organic and the inorganic. In assembling the results, the artist hopes, the piece ?brings into question the tactical foundations in the representation of biotechnology’s emergence as a new economy.?ChannelUntitled, meanwhile, tunes into the spectres that haunt technology and provides a channel to air their messages. Who are these beings that dwell here? Spirits of the dead? The strained voices of technology-induced mass hysteria? A confusion of noise and frequency? An operating system run amok? Perhaps you’ll find yourself among the disembodied… Elsewhere, CultureMap provides an imaging system that tries to depict the evolving content of the Web. Using data collected from search engines, it produces an interactive image that reflects the prevalence of various words in the pages of the Web. Keywords: meta-cartographic information art. These are just the featured projects on a site that is obviously serious about curating net.art. Go check it out:

http://www.turbulence.org/index.html