DWA WEB ACTION 1995: 
John Giorno's broadside for Visual AIDS web design by G.H. Hovagimyan. For the first DWA Web Action, John Giorno gave us permission to use his poetry to create a moment of pause in digital observance of the 7th Annual Day Without Art. Orginally the poem was part of the Visual AIDS BROADSIDES series, a project in which artworks were made available as camera-ready mechanicals for easy dissemination as handouts, graphics or even billboards.

DWA WEB ACTION 1996:
Day Without Art Web Action Project 1996 focused on triple drug therapy [AZT, 3TC, & a protease inhibitor-the most common combination of drugs] -- the first serious glimmer of hope that medical science could actually slow the progression of the HIV virus. DWA Web Action 96 offered a triple combination of our own -- art, resources and actions. Projects included:
"VisionNeverstopCrying" by CB Cooke.

"What are Three Things You Can't Live Without?" collective posting project

DWA WEB ACTION 1997
This year's action featured The Wish Machine by Chrysanne Stathacos. Virtual Wish Machine programming by TeKnowledge Industries, Inc. This on-line version of Stathacos' "The Wish Machine" project, invites you to submit a wish to activate the powerful energy of imagination and hope.

The Time Capsule presented in conjunction with Visual AIDS, MoMA and ArtAIDS. Facilitated by artist Ming Wei Lee, this project collected personal accounts, through image and text, of the impact of the AIDS pandemic at that specific moment -- December 1, 1997. Its contents are now sealed and will be opened in 2002.

Silent Orpheus an on-line performance by the Plaintext Players (directed by Antoinette LaFarge). Was presented with Thundergulch on the occasion of World AIDS Day 1997.

DWA WEB ACTION 1998
Banner Project 1998 Artists included Lance Arthur, Leslie Harpold, Auriea Harvey, Matt Owens, Derek Powazek, Picture Projects, Vivian Selbo, Yoshi Sodeoka and more.

Web Action Tours For the 10th anniversary of Day Without Art, Creative Time commissioned a series of web tours that representing a variety of perspectives on the impact of AIDS on American culture. Guides included Barabara Hunt (Visual AIDS), Patrick Moore (The Estate Project), Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Roberto Sifuentes, Kate Shindle (Miss America 1997), School's OUT: The Naming Project and more

DWA WEB ACTION 1999
Banner Project 1998 Artists included Isabel Chang, Leslie Harpold, Virgil, Jane Nisselson, Vivid Studios, and more.

The Daily Dispatch was a year long project designed to give voice to the multiple realities that have formed since the emergence of the AIDS pandemic. Each month featured two correspondents including Muna Tseng, Dale Peck, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, Penny Arcade, Street-Level Youth Media and others.

DWA Web Action The History

DWA WEB ACTION is an annual on-line observance to publicly unite individuals and organizations via the web around the grave impact of HIV/AIDS. This project launches each year on December 1st, World AIDS Day.

Day Without Art was initiated in 1989 by Visual AIDS as the national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. To make the public aware that AIDS can touch everyone, and inspire positive action, some eight hundred US art and AIDS groups participated in the first Day Without Art, shutting down museums, sending staff to volunteer at AIDS services, or sponsoring special exhibitions of work about AIDS. Since then, Day With(out) Art has grown into a collaborative project in which an estimated 8,000 museums, galleries, art centers, AIDS Service Organizations, libraries, high schools and colleges take part on both the national and international levels.

Creative Time has always been a proud DWA participant by presenting poster projects as well as media broadcasts such as "We Interrupt this Program" on PBS by Mary Ellen Strom and Bobbie Tsumagari. Then, in 1995, Creative Time decided to utilize the new found power of "linking" on the world wide web for our DWA observance.

Since this first year, the web has exploded and our web action has grown, yet HIV/AIDS is still fatally ahead of us all in its ability to infiltrate and proliferate wildly throughout our bodies and our cultures. We will continue to honor the vision and actions of artists that visualize the ways HIV/AIDS touches our lives.