To exit I recommend the following links rich for aesthetics. Shout-Out and thanks to Webmaster of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Herbert Hrachovec. He knows to sing the Hobel-Lied in many ways. My recommendation is http://hhobel.phl.univie.ac.at/~herbert/spiegel/spiegel.html .

Richard Heinrich developed and helped to develop an interesting ongoing project from his course in Winter term for "KoerperKunst Natursprache: Gilles Deleuze ueber Francis Bacon (Logique de la sensation)". The adress is http://heihobel.phl.univie.ac.at/meine/h0pxt.htm. (offline mvä 98/2) http://heihobel.phl.univie.ac.at/pro/dbac/h0pxt.htm .

Top of state of the art - in terms of a prestigious organisation's self representation - is the homepage of New York's Dia Center of the Arts: http://www.diacenter.org/.

In place of many others, a special Guide in aesthetics to be mentioned and not yet reviewed is http://www.indiana.edu/~asanl/, now http://www.aesthetics-online.org

The sound of the word Schneeflocke has an odd sound, but the depiction as a Kleinian set is not less so. You can find it in the remarkable "gallery" of Harvard mathematician Curtis T. McMullen, hinted at from Die Zeit on the occasion of a portrayal of the 4 Fields prize winners in ist issue of August 20, 1998, p.28. The website http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/gallery.html offers 10 more such sets, 8 Riemannian surfaces, 12 examples of complex dynamics, 3 depictions of renormalisation and two for randomness. One picture is called by McMullen "exponential Art Deco" - besides this you could speak of postmodern ornaments here more than one time.

Access to this years newly founded Le parole della filosofia is given with http://www.apl.it//sf/leparole.htm (thanks for the information to editorial board member Laura Berchielli).

The library of the University Konstanz provides with "Philosophie im Internet" via http://www.uni-konstanz.de/ZE/Bib/zs/zsph.html - homepages also pertinent to aesthetics.

This time I give the link of the homepage of the German Society of Aesthetics: http://www.uni-giessen.de/~gm29/dgae/homepage.htm , look for information about program, guidelines und projects as well as further links for example to "AE. Canadian Aesthetics Journal / Revue canadienne d'esthétique", vol. 2, Winter <beginning of> 1998 http://esi25.ESI.UMontreal.CA:80/~guedon/AE/vol_2/table.html (offline mvä 00/1). It is the Special Issue / Numéro spécial "Symbol, Fiction, Communication" / "Symbole, Fiction, Communication" edited by Peter McCormick (Ottawa) / textes réunis par Peter McCormick (Ottawa) containing in full: That Meets the Eye of Ales Erjavec (Ljubliana); Falsity, Ambiguity, and Metaphors of Christel Fricke (Heidelberg); Literature - Invention of the Self of Arto Haapala (Helsinki); La place et les fonctions de l'art dans la culture of Moisej S. Kagan (St-Petersbourg); Korean Aesthetic Consciousness and the Problem of Aesthetic Rationality of Kwang-Myung Kim (Seoul); A Portrait of Interpretation of Ruth Lorand (Haifa); What to Learn from Eastern Aesthetics of Grazia Marchiano (Siena); La mediacion estetica of Rosa Maria Ravera (Buenos Aires); Le sublime de Burke et son influence dans l'architecture et l'art des jardins of Baldine Saint Girons (Paris); L'esthétique comme partie d'une éthique différenciée. Douze brefs commentaires of Martin Seel (Gießen); Gadamer, l'esthétique et les ressources de la santé of Claude Thérien (Montréal); and under the heading Aesthetic Experiments / Expériences esthétiques Music excerpt and text about Transition infime IV, collective musical improvisation created by Wreck's Progress / Extrait musical et texte à propos de Transition infime IV créée par le trio d'improvisation musicale Wreck's Progress Michel Ratté (Montréal).

It seeems in order to point at a Kolloquium to be held in mid-March at Vienna, "Zeichen Musik Gesellschaft". Abstracts available at http://www.uni-ak.ac.at/culture/withalm/SMS/ . The contributions will be printed in two volumes in 2000 as Sonderbände of the Journal "S - Europ. Journal f. Semiotic Studies".

An ambitious website in Poland has to be mentioned. It offers a little, focused part on aesthetics and opens the way for a sort of encyclopaedic reading in the internet: http://free.ngo.pl/towitt/katalog/veste.htm

A useful collection of materials on an aesthetics of the media, the philosophy of media and medie art is available with http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Frank.Hartmann/ , with Seminar für Ästhetik at Humboldt-Universität at http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/inside/aesthetics/ (offline mvä 00/2, instead) http://141.20.150.7/aesthetic/ (Historisch / Technische Medienwissenschaften. Oberseminar und Doktorandenkolloquium Prof. Friedrich Kittler) and with Hartmut Winkler's http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~winkler/index.html#aboutme , including the first chapter ''Die Metapher des Netzes'' of "Docuverse - Zur Medientheorie der Computer", München: Boer 1997, online until Februar 26, 2002.

An optically appealing online Journal is De Musica, edited by Giovanni Piana at the Seminario Permanente di Filosofia della Musica of the Department of Philosophy Institut at the University Milan Mailand since 1997. First Italian Aestheticians with phenomenological influence contribute with texts on Husserl, Klee, Kandinsky, Coltrane, Rameau, Schaeffer, Hegel, Berio, Mozart, and Leibniz: http://users.unimi.it/~gpiana/demus.htm

I would like to hand Christian Allesch's recommendation at this place concerning the "langpapers" of Swiss psychologist of culture Alexander Lang, providing access via the colourful portal of http://www.cx.unibe.ch/psy/ukp/langpapers/ . Without page, paragraph or sentence numbers, http://gutenberg.aol.de (offline mvä 02/3 instead http://www.gutenberg2000.de/, leaving now out Lessing) has set online, arranged by names in alphabetical order, primarily fiction of mostly German authors. Sometimes with, sometimes without reproduction of cover, sometimes with, sometimes without linked footnotes, sometimes with chapters to be grasped separately by clicking on the lines of tables of contents, there is some portion of aesthetics: Martin Opitz's Buch von der deutschen Poeterey (In welchem alle ihre eigenschafft und zugehör gründlich erzehlet und mit exempeln außgeführet wird. Gedruckt in der Fürstlichen Stadt Brieg bey Augustino Gründern. In Verlegung David Müllers Buchhändlers in Breßlaw. 1624), Winckelmann's Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke nach der 2. Auflage von 1756, Lessing's Laokoon (with a good picture of the sculpture), Herder's Journal meiner Reise im Jahr 1769, his Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache (1770), Lavater's Von der Physiognomik, Wilhelm Heinse's letters Über die Gemälde der Düsseldorfer Galerie (1776/77; coloured illstrations of the paintings described provided), Kant's Kritik der Urteilskraft, Novalis's Neue Fragmente (der Enzyklopädie V. Abteilung Naturlehre oder vom Lebendigen, 4. Psychologie, und VI. Abteilung Die philologischen Wissenschaften, 1. Philologie, Sprache und Musik; Noten an den Rand des Lebens; Sophie, oder über die Frauen; Traktat vom Licht; Von der geheimen Welt), Jean Paul's Vorschule der Ästhetik (expanded edition), Jacob Burckhardt's Die Kultur der Renaissance. Ein Versuch (1860), Nietzsche's Fragmente (1869-85; vollständig?) and other publications in its entirety as well as Hofmannsthal's Lord Chandos's Brief (1902).

The next international conference about aesthetics is to take place near Tokyo from August 27 to August 31, 2001. Information to be obtained at The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters (Prof. Ken-ichi Sasaki), 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033 Tokyo, Japan, or via http://wwwsoc.nacsis.ac.jp/bigaku/2001/index.html (offline mvä 02/3).

Gerhard Haupt's paper "Kritik im Netz - Internet als Medium und Werkzeug der Kunstkritik" at the Berlin conference 1999 of German AICA (Association internationale des critiques d'arts) - http://www.aica.de/symp99/haupt.html - provides a link to Tilman Baumgärtel's "Immaterialien. Aus der Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Netzkunst", from 26. 6. 1997, presented by "telepolis", http://www.heise.de/tp/. Again, Baumgärtel's text, usefully illustrated, leads to a series of relevant art projects documented in the internet. In general "telepolis" (whose contributions pop up with delay because of advertisment) offers little for aesthetic theory, for instance with keyword "Medientheorie" - via "Spezial" - some critical remarks on the avantgarde in Deleuze/Guattari.

As teaser for the next issue of this journal, with respect to ist forthcoming Rhizography, you may click on http://www.uni-wuppertal.de/FB5-Hofaue/Brock/ .

Try the remarkable http://www.britannica.com using "aesthetics" (Roger Scruton) and following the numerous links. ("art, philosophy of" not yet complete.)

"tà katoptrizómena. Magazin für Theologie und Ästhetik" is a journal explicitly near to Evangelische Kirche Deutschlands and fostered by the Fernuniversitätsstadt Hagen. With http://www.theomag.de/ the illustrated, ambitious magazine appears every two to three months, with various length. The 10th number has just been published. The journal can also be ordered as 1-Year-CD. As yet published issues have been put online in html, a search engine for the complete text is at disposal.

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