Welcome to the Hurford Humanities Center’s Web Gallery, an online exhibition environment designed to enlarge the Center’s platform for visual and performance culture. Exploiting the plastic and expansive nature of netspace, the Web Gallery allows the Center to exceed temporal, spatial, and material boundaries that normally define its promotion of art at Haverford, while reaching audiences that stretch beyond its formal borders.

While Web Gallery presentations will typically showcase work by artists already familiar to the Haverford community from prior on-campus visits and exhibitions, we will also seek to develop the site as a stage for images, installations, and enactments that explore the new frontier of digital, software, and “net” art. After completing its run in the Gallery, each exhibition will be archived, taking its place in the Center’s Virtual Museum.

Our first exhibition, entitled “The Truthoscopic Collage Art of Theodore Harris,” follows from a spirited collaborative slide presentation/poetry reading presented by Mr. Harris and Amiri Baraka to an enthusiastic Haverford audience in the spring of 2002. At that time, Mr. Harris was able to display only a fraction of his work, the full panorama of which is now offered in the current exhibition’s three ‘cyber rooms.’ The images are arranged chronologically, but you may enter the exhibition at any point, viewing any image by simply clicking on its thumbnail.

1989-1997	1998-1999	2000-2003

Accompanying the images as a kind of ‘virtual catalogue’ are three essays:

A brief introduction by the curator, Kim Benston
An interpretive reading of Theodore Harris’s work by Mr. Baraka
Mr. Harris's own Artist's Manifesto