Santa Monica, CA--ArtCommotion is succeeding where many web art sites have failed. Its combination of wry, edgy writing, cutting-edge design, and coverage of well-known and emerging artists has earned it high marks after only two issues.

Headlining ArtCommotion's second issue (http://www.artcommotion.com/) is Yoko Ono's interactive work, "One Woman Show." The Fly Event, an Ono-ArtCommotion collaboration, may be seen at the L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) web site (http://www.moca.org/). Working with bottled, perfumed flies released from MOCA's courtyard into the L.A. sky, Ono both amuses and invites viewer participation. ArtCommotion serves as the site's official "FlyMaster."

Among the 10 artists/writers represented in Issue Two are "multi-mediaphile" and short story writer, Barry Yourgrau; Bluesy performance artist, El Rivera; and L.A. visual artist Rachel Lachowicz, known for re-contextualizing classic works of sculpture in ironic and playful ways. ArtCommotion collaborated with Lachowicz in re-interpreting one of her works for the web.

Unique design elements, a user-friendly interface, audio, video, photography, and animation have all contributed to ArtCommotion's acclaim. The bi-monthly web 'zine earned Pick of the Day by the Microsoft Network (October 11, 1996). Consumer daily, Los Angeles Times says that amidst ArtCommotion's "...visual and literary artworks, reviews, profiles, interviews, news and reader comments--a click of the mouse reveals more than meets the eye" (July 21, 1996).

The Web Magazine (from the publishers of Macworld, PC World, etc.) reviewed thousands of web sites and selected ArtCommotion as a "Hot 5 Art and Design" site, saying, ArtCommotion is "everything a useful art rag should be" (Oct/Nov 1996). The Magellan Internet Guide also praised ArtCommotion as "refreshing in the clarity of its voice and the decisiveness of its scope" (September 15, 1996).

Other art-related sites have provided hot-linked endorsements, including The J. Paul Getty Trust's L.A. Culture Net project (http://www.gii.getty.edu/lacn/) and L.A. Freewaves (http://pixels.filmtv.ucla.edu/community/LA_Freewaves/) a coalition of videomakers, artists, writers, educators and community activists committed to independent media.

ArtCommotion, the Los Angeles Contemporary Arts Magazine, is a web 'zine and resource featuring provocative, contemporary visual and literary art. The bi-monthly presents commissioned art, interviews, weekly news, reviews, and classifieds. ArtCommotion is published by Commotion New Media (http://www.commotion.com/), an award-winning production studio. Commotion's clients include LAUNCH Magazine, Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Nestlé Butterfinger, www.CatalogSite.com , Microware Systems Corporation, Thomson Consumer Electronics, and Philips Interactive Media.