«Media Art Net» is best viewed using a current graphic browser supporting all common webstandards. The site can be navigated with older browsers but the content might not be displayed all, and some functions might not work properly. Cookies have to be activated for specific functions (back to text, automatic selection of video stream software and bit-rate). With Internet Explorer 6 the menu «high security» has to be de-activated for these functions.

Index
The main navigation offers an index with alphabetically sorted lists for names, works, categories and key words.
Each text is also linked to a text-specific index of names, works and source texts which lead to the respective passage in the text of the author.

Features

scroll version of all authors' texts

page version of texts

print version

quote generator – this feature generates automatic quotes including the correct URL for any marked text passage

credits, information about the concept of the project related publications

Navigation with two windows: all contextual information is displayed in the first window, all information related to the work selected in a second window. External links will open in a separate window again. Needs Javascript activated.

An alternative navigation using various keyboard functions is possible:
For PC: Alt + key [+ Enter] - for Mac: ctrl + key [+ Enter]

Search: One can either search combinations of terms by using Boolean operators or by accessing the modus «advanced search.»

Streaming formats: for video most recent Quicktime [Real Player and Windows Media Player is currently not yet available]; audio with mp3.

Softlinks: following the manual of the corresponding book, this code (‹softlink›) is used for the search field to directly access all listed links in a given section of the text. 01/105 refers to the first text and chapter 5 in English.