Best New Municipal Website: Indianapolis

Congratulations to Indianapolis Public Art program and the director, Mindy Taylor Ross. They were the first to start an online system of video podcast interviews with artists and tours. Now they are the first to master the new Google map programs. Very easy navigation of the city to find public art by geography, type and artist. Will they become the first to succeed on "iphone" integration with cell phone tours, visuals, directions and videos? Where is Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and San Jose?????? Click Here for Aesthetic Grounds Research on Cell Phone Tours

Indianapolis copied many of the attributes of the outstanding State of Colorado website including the best resource page with every civic document and instruction to install a work of public art. The new and future works have a viewable image size and short intelligent text - something usually missing on image websites.

Indianapolis site design was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. I could not find the site designer.
Colorado site was designed by Spire Media

In the UK, Channel 4 has created the Big Art Mob site. The idea is that cell phone users would take photos "on the run" and send them to the Mob site. So far, it is having a hard time attracting users, but you can see the begining of the Google map based photo source of public art for the UK. (You need to register to use the site) The site has the potential for the general public to define "public art" - an excellent idea.