While surfing the web about two years ago (a long time in the Web
Universe, I know) I came across a news article about an art award
given to a woman who created "pictures" of the Internet.  She did this
by writing a program that monitored creation of URLs and then assigned
a color and pixel coordinates to each one.  I believe there were rules
set up on how colors and coordinates were assigned (ex., all URLs
coming from the US would be pink or maybe in the upper left corner). 
Within the news article there was a link to a Website the woman
maintained that displayed this work and some other graphic design work
she had done.  I can no longer remember what news agency posted the
article or what the name of the award was.  I believe (am pretty darn
sure) that the award was not given by any US organization and that the
hookline of the article was something like "Award given to
Internet-art for first time."  I have looked for this several times, as has my
techno-geek fiance and we have both been unsuccessful. (Admittedly, I
do not know how hard he tried since he wasn't very enthused about it.)

What I want is a/are link(s) to where this work is currently on display, and
(optional) the news article.
 
If anyone would like a crack at this but feels I am not offering
enough pay, I would be willing to 'renegotiate'.  Please post a
clarification in that case.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 12 Jan 2004 19:17 PST

I wonder if the woman you're thinking of may be Lisa Jevbratt.

Here you can read about one of Jevbratt's creations, The Infome Imager:

http://spike.sjsu.edu/~jevbratt/lifelike/system/index.html

Other Jevbratt projects:

http://jevbratt.com/projects.html

If any of this rings a bell, and if Lisa Jevbratt is the woman you
read about, I'll be glad to gather more information about her and her
work.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 13 Jan 2004 16:22 PST

Jevbratt's "1:1" was nominated for a Webby Award in 2001:

http://128.111.69.4/~jevbratt/1_to_1/index_ng.html

More on Lisa Jevbratt's work:

http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/issue/3/Jevbratt.htm

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Clarification of Question by denisegk-ga on 14 Jan 2004 06:59 PST

See comment below.

I'm glad to have been able to help you identify the artist you were
looking for! I am an avid computer graphics artist, and I had, in the
past, bookmarked several pages related to Lisa Jevbratt, so this was
one of the few questions I've answered that did not require the
extensive use of a search engine.

Below I've reposted the material mentioned earlier, plus a bit more on
Jevbratt's "1:1" project.

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Here you can read about one of Jevbratt's creations, The Infome Imager:

CADRE Laboratory for New Media: Mapping the Web Infome
http://spike.sjsu.edu/~jevbratt/lifelike/system/index.html

Other Jevbratt projects:

Jevbratt.com
http://jevbratt.com/projects.html

Jevbratt's "1:1" was nominated for a Webby Award in 2001:

Lisa Jevbratt Projects Etc: 1:1
http://128.111.69.4/~jevbratt/1_to_1/index_ng.html

More on Lisa Jevbratt's work:

Dictung-Digital: Coding the Infome
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/issue/3/Jevbratt.htm
 
Still more on Jevbratt:

Silicon Valley Institute of Art and Technology: Virtual Exhibitions
http://www.art-tech.org/html/virtual/jevbratt.html

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Here's are excerpts from a couple of pages about Jevbratt that
describe the "Every" interface and the project "1:1".

"1:1, a temporal image of the Internet, created by Lisa Jevbratt. In
this piece softbots, or agents, continuously scan servers doing a
so-called interlaced search of all possible IP addresses, expressed as
four octets, from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255, and then expressing the
results in terms of five different visualization algorithms. The
search zooms in repeatedly on different samplings, each of which
constitutes not a slice, but a snapshot, of the Web, which increases
in resolution as the scans move toward sampling all the octets, after
which they recommence... Readers of 1:1 can select locations via the
Hierarchical, Random, Petri, Excursion, or Every interface. The latter
is a densely striated coat of many colors, a clickable image map
linking to every top level website associated with an IP address. The
specific color of each square is generated by using the second, third,
and fourth octets to specify RGB numbers."

Dali Clocks: Time Dimensions of Hypermedia
http://califia.hispeed.com/Dac/dali3.htm

"1:1 is a portrait of the World Wide Web that focuses on database
aesthetics and the formal qualities of the network. The project
consists of five different visualizations of the web as a "numerical"
space. Every website has a numerical Internet Protocol, or IP,
address--a string of numbers such as 12.126.155.22--that usually
remains hidden behind a .com, .org, .net address. 1:1 is a
visualization of a database of IP addresses compiled by C5--a research
group of which Lisa Jevbratt is a member...  Visitors to 1:1 can
navigate the web--i.e., access an IP address--by clicking on any given
pixel in the different visualizations of the database or by compiling
or randomly choosing IP addresses."

Whitney Artport: Lisa Jevbratt/C5
http://www.whitney.org/artport/exhibitions/biennial2002/jevbratt.shtml

Here you'll find biographical information on Jevbratt, and a detailed
history of her exhibitions and awards:

Rhizome: Lisa Jevbratt
http://www.rhizome.org/member.rhiz?user_id=3540

Rhizome: Troika
http://www.rhizome.com/print.rhiz?12839

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Google Web Search: "lisa jevbratt"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22lisa+jevbratt

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Thanks for providing a fascinating project. Becoming re-acquainted
with Lisa Jevbratt's work has invigorated my creativity, and at my
age, that's quite a wonderful thing. ;-)

Best regards,
pinkfreud

Thanks a heap!  Now that I've learned a little more about the artist,
I'm even more fascinated by the interfaces.  One of my best friends is
a painter who dabbles in c.g.a.  I've been wanting to show him what I
saw so long ago and now I can.
Also, I've been poking around this answers area to see what it's like.
 You lot are very funny and very good at this.  I will be posting two
more questions soon.  Sorry I missed the 1000 posts question. *Sigh*
:)

Still more on Jevbratt:

http://www.art-tech.org/html/virtual/jevbratt.html

Yes! The "every" interface is what I was looking for.  Thanks so much.
 Please re-post your stuff as an answer so I can pay you.  I can't
believe you found all this so quickly.  Though, maybe I should have
guessed, I have seen your name on lots of other questions. :)

Thank you very much for the five-star rating and the tip! I hope we'll
see more of you here on GA. If you'd like to post in the "1000
Comments" question, please feel free to do so. Having already achieved
its goal, it appears to be headed for 2000 posts, and you can help!
Your vote counts! :-)

http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=161982

~pinkfreud