Artists Michelle Deignan and Simon Goodwin created Variablemedia* in 2001 as a space in which to explore place, process and temporality.

Deignan and Goodwin co-ordinated a series of artists' web projects made specifically for the www.variablemedia.org site. Artists occupied the site's space for a period of between one month and a year. This empty space was available for them to change, update and add to during their project's run. The site presented the artists' work in an unmediated form; all explanatory material and archives were held here at www.variablemedia.info.

Variablemedia also aims to organise occassional physical exhibitons / events featuring work by artists who have had residencies at www.variablemedia.org. These are intended to both present and elaborate on the on-line projects. The first of these was at the Hoxton Distillery gallery in London [images]. For more information please see the VM.01 press release.
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* The variablemedia name was prompted by Deignan and Goodwin's ambivalent response to hearing of the 'variable media initiative' organised by the Guggenheim Museum. This initiative seeks to establish "medium independent behaviours in art works".