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visual arts by Annie Hillis people live together. Other people paint together. But very few people live together and paint together. Turkish painters Asuman and Atanur Dogan do just that, while also sharing parenting duties of their young child Atas. These two artists moved to Vancouver from Izmir, Turkey, three years ago and have been showing their distinct water colours ever since. Asuman and Atanur met in art school in Izmir over a decade ago. Even then they found their interests ran parallel, as they took the same classes and shared an interest in painting scenes of everyday life which surrounded them. Although technically their styles are similar, their choice of subject 0) > Partners, Painters and Parents matter suggests somewhat different temperaments. Atanur is intrigued by human interaction; he paints people at play, in conversation, bartering and bantering. Asuman, on the other hand, strives to capture the essence of places and moods rather than people. She is clearly intrigued by architec ture, and her work features many more buildings than it does people, especially ageing homes and shops which have developed a unique char acter over the years. While Vancouver is home for the Dogans, they still return to Turkey fairly often and this year their work will be shown in Istanbul and Paris. The Dogan's work will next be presented by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council in an exhi bition at the District of North Vancouer Hall January 4 to February 1, as part would broaden the site's appeal. The VSO would do well to consult James Reid on downloadable sound files.Vanitv Fare Time.s is the personal site of James Reid, a senior recording engineer with the CBC (http://mind link.netljames_reid/gateway.html). Reid's site is about as good as they get. Strong visuals, easily navi gable and teaming with classical music sound files. Vanity Fare Times has unofficial sound archives for the VSO, the Vancouver Chamber Choir and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra. One complaint: occasionally', the sound files are a little too large and take too much time to download. How about using Real Audio, James? The site also ranks very high as a jumping off point and redlines the get-here meter. Congratulations James, Vanity Fare Times wins Arts Alive's highest Website honour--the five Bill Gates' salute. The close-but-no-cigar award goes to the Vancouver Arts Index (http:l/ giant.mindlink.net:8Ofslothlarts.html) for the mammoth undertaking of including every arts organization in the city in its site. The problem is most arts groups aren't up on the Web Some of the Art in Pith/ic Places program. At the opening Rasin Duran will play Turkish music on guitar and Turkish culinary delights will be available. The Dogans will offer a slide show of Turkey and of the scenes from which they draw the bulk of their subjects. For more information call: 988-6844. Annie Hillis is the public programs coordinator at the North Vancouver Community Arts Council. Card Playing Men, byAtanur Dogan. Watercolour, 25 x 35cm. cyberspace 16 Web Review by Blair Dewan round of applause for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) for leaping into cyberspace with a very good effort. The site does reflect a hmmm-we-should-be-in-on this-thing stance, but on the whole it's a solid beginning (http:www.ucal gaiy.calvso/vso.html). The site has strong visual appeal and a good clean design. More importantly, the sym phony is a good Web-citizen and keeps its site fresh with new information. On a recent visit, there were four "new" links to timely information, including a message from new VSO president Ron Dumouchelle, sub scription information and a recent ieview (with a link to Vancouver WWW Goliath, Euphony net-magazine). The link to Euphony scores the VSO hip-points, but most of the site's information wouldn't be interesting to non-symphony goers. Something like downloadable sound clips or a "Symphony for Dummies" approach A yet, so links to their names give you nothing more than information you could gather from a mailing list. Not cool! 1 had to scan through dozens of go-nowhere pages before I found an organization with anything worth looking at (e.g., Bard on the Beach). However, this could be the site of the future for information. Plus, the navigation map on the Home Page is a very cool feature. The site is worth a revisit to monitor its evolution. In the Web-in-its-strongestelement file rests Jas Cyberspace, the personal Home Page of James Felter, a North Shore visual artist (www.fax imuni.comljas/). James' site is about getting the word out about his work and talking about stuff he likes. It's a lot like any good personal Web site, in this case the subject of interest is visual art. Jas Cvheispace features a main gallery, a site newsletter and some thing called The Gallery Mraur that will either enthrall you or have you in tears of laughter. Personally, I experi enced both. James' site is striking and his artwork intriguing. Both make his Home Page well worth a tour, espe cially as an insight into an artist's creative vision.