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-\ <font 12pt/​Arial><​color rgb(51, 102, 153)/​white>​Startup</​color></​font>​\ ​ The **Manitoba Visual Arts Network** was started up in the summer of 1995, in response to the emerging technologies of the World Wide Web.  A number of people played a part:  Myron Turner, a mutli-media artist, who became its co-ordinator;​ Dale Amundson, then Director of The School of Art of the University of Manitoba and, later, Jon Tupper, then Curatorial Manager at The Winnipeg Art Gallery. We were all interested in technology and art.  Dale had long used computers in his work, and Myron Turner had started using them in 1990.  When the Mosaic browser was released, we all realized that this was a startling new development and that it could have a wide-ranging impact on the visual arts. \ \ <font 12pt/​Arial><​color rgb(51, 102, 153)/​white>​Early Days</​color></​font>​\ ​ 1995 was, of course, early in the history of the WWW.  Dial-up was the rule and t4 connections were almost exclusively the territory of universities and governments.  Dale Amundson arranged to get **mbvan** space on The School of Art's server, where it had been housed until just this year. In 1995 none of Manitoba'​s visual arts groups had a web presence, and one of our first major undertakings was to provide web space for as many of these groups as we could.  We were given an Outreach Grant by The University of Manitoba and hired Karen Thornton to desgin ​our site and to create sites for serveral of the arts groups. Karen was a student in graphic design and later went on to take an MFA in digital arts.+\ <font 12pt/​Arial><​color rgb(51, 102, 153)/​white>​Startup</​color></​font>​\ ​ The **Manitoba Visual Arts Network** was started up in the summer of 1995, in response to the emerging technologies of the World Wide Web.  A number of people played a part:  Myron Turner, a mutli-media artist, who became its co-ordinator;​ Dale Amundson, then Director of The School of Art of the University of Manitoba and, later, Jon Tupper, then Curatorial Manager at The Winnipeg Art Gallery. We were all interested in technology and art.  Dale had long used computers in his work, and Myron Turner had started using them in 1990.  When the Mosaic browser was released, we all realized that this was a startling new development and that it could have a wide-ranging impact on the visual arts. \ \ <font 12pt/​Arial><​color rgb(51, 102, 153)/​white>​Early Days</​color></​font>​\ ​ 1995 was, of course, early in the history of the WWW.  Dial-up was the rule and t4 connections were almost exclusively the territory of universities and governments.  Dale Amundson arranged to get **mbvan** space on The School of Art's server, where it had been housed until just this year. In 1995 none of Manitoba'​s visual arts groups had a web presence, and one of our first major undertakings was to provide web space for as many of these groups as we could.  We were given an Outreach Grant by The University of Manitoba and hired Karen Thornton to design ​our site and to create sites for serveral of the arts groups. Karen was a student in graphic design and later went on to take an MFA in digital arts.  The original design is still viewable, but not fully functional: [[http://​mbvan.org/​mbvan/​original.html|Original mbvan]].
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 During these early days, a number of the groups paid a small annual membership fee for their space on the server, and we referred to them as “member groups”; but we never denied membership to any group, whether it paid or not.  Few, if any, of our members had email and so we provided web forms on our web site which people could use for sending messages to our members.  I would collect these in text files, but truthfully I can no longer remember how I got these over to our members. These very practical services became increasingly obsolete, and we began to look at other ways to serve the Manitoba visual arts community. During these early days, a number of the groups paid a small annual membership fee for their space on the server, and we referred to them as “member groups”; but we never denied membership to any group, whether it paid or not.  Few, if any, of our members had email and so we provided web forms on our web site which people could use for sending messages to our members.  I would collect these in text files, but truthfully I can no longer remember how I got these over to our members. These very practical services became increasingly obsolete, and we began to look at other ways to serve the Manitoba visual arts community.
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