Links
These links are a wealth of information. They are not in alphabetical order (or any other particular order), and are categorized in a general way. If you have suggestions for this page, please email me links and I will post them.
Hyperphysics (…pretty much the coolest educational web site dedicated to the physics of everything)
Exploratorium Museum (sf based museum of science, art and human perception — amazing!)
Internet Archive (home to the prelinger archive of copyright-free, downloadable, full-format, digitized psa films from the 50’s and 60’s; the audacious internet “wayback machine”, plus lots more video and audio source material)
American Memory Project (ambitiously seeking to document the entire history of the american experience… amazing site with lots and lots of royalty free image + sound source material)
Berkeley Center for New Media (investigating what is new about new media from cross-disciplinary and global perspectives, emphasizing humanities and the public interest)
Media Art Net (great international multimedia art nexus)
ZKM (pioneer european media art think tank)
New American Radio (conceptual new drama, associational documentary, language explorations, sonic meditations, environmental compositions, musical explorations, and new dimensions in acoustic space)
Experimenta (australian home to technology/art collision)
UbuWeb (independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts — very educational!)
Ircam (institute for music/acoustic research and coordination, emphasizing relationships between art/science)
Harvestworks (encourages the creation and dissemination of digital media artwork)
Experimental Intermedia (phil niblocks org providing support for artists working in intermedia forms)
New Media Scotland (instigating and supporting experimentation in art & technology)
V2: Institute for the Unstable Media (dutch org committed to development of electronic art)
Vermont Folk Life Center (great resources for field recordists)
Thomas Edison (edison national park and historic site — totally immerisve and amazing web site!)
Lampo (presenter of experimental music and intermedia events)
Harry Bertoia Research Project (site dedicated to furthering work and ideas of h.b.)
Circuitbending (site for how-to’s and related info)
Think Geek (lots of audio [and other] gadgets for computers)
Digikey (mega online electronics outlet)
All Electronics (same as above — shop and compare)
Anti-Theory (circuit bending site)
Otherworldcomputing (portable hard-disk solutions)
Soldering Demo (like it says)
EYEBEAM (art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation)
Fractured Atlas (non-profit organization that provides services and support to artists and arts organizations)
Multimedia Hosting (links to various multimedia hosting sites and services, many of which are free
Vox (free banner heavy b/vlog hosting venue)
NYFA (new york foundation for the arts — info, funding, opps, news and more)
Rhizome (supports creation, presentation, and preservation of contemporary art using new technologies in significant ways)
Alliance of Artists Communities (supporting a.i.r. programs and advocating for creative environments)
The Kitchen (ny host supporting art in various media)
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NAMAC (support and advocacy of independent film, video, audio and digital arts)
Franklin Furnace (guardian of and grants for experimental art)
Kultureflash (london-based online and in-print conemporary art magazine and more)
Make Magazine (devoted entirely to diy technology projects)
Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (a hybrid publishing project joining artmuseum.net with w.w. norton to present an untold history of multimedia)
New Media Dictionary (the venerable folks at leonardo magazine bring us this exhaustive project)
Leonardo Online (web presence for journal of the international society for the arts, sciences and technology)
Learning To Love You More (Miranda July, et al. project)
• SOFTWARE (mostly free or reasonably-priced)
OPSOUND (free love, free music. opsound is a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music)
soundhack (spectral audio processing for the macintosh)
Audacity (freeware multi-track audio recording and editing software for mac and pc)
WMV (freeware plug-in for quicktime/mac-based viewing of windows media files)
QuickTime Pro (strongly recommended paid software provides extensive flexibility with media files)
MPEG Streamclip (freeware video converter, player, editor for mac and windows — can convert mpeg files between muxed and demuxed formats for authoring)
VLC (free cross-platform media player supporting a large number of multimedia formats)
Avidemux (multi-format free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks)
t@b ZS4 Video Editor (free, easy, limited)
CamStudio (free host that will record all screen and audio activity on your computer)
Cycling ‘74 (revolutionary programmable interactive video and audio software)
Audio Hijack (shareware that allows you to record on-the-fly .wav audio files from any application on your computer)
MacTheRipper (de-encodes [de-crypts] commercial dvd’s to your desktop for backup or sampling)
Handbrake (converts dvd files to mpeg; similar to mpeg streamclip above)
• FILM SPECIFIC LINKS
tank.tv (online showcase for innovative work in film and video dedicated to promoting emerging and established international artists)
LUX (promotes moving image work, and those who make it, through distribution, exhibition, education, publishing and research)
Flicker (films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception, etc)
Moving Image Coalition (film-centric australians dedicated to preserving experimental moving images)
Senses of Cinema (an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema)
BAM/PFA (pacific film archive at the berkeley museum, increasing the understanding, appreciation, and preservation of cinema)
California Film Institute (presents work of emerging and established filmmakers who address diverse issues relevant to contemporary society)
Facets Multimedia (uber collection of cinema on video with articles and lots of info about the film world)
Cineaste (magazine on the art and politics of cinema)
Kinoeye (new perspectives on european film)
TCM Movie Database (massive historic archive of american cinema)
ScreenSite (facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students)
San Francisco Cinematech (showcases of experimental film, digital media, and performative cinema)
Film Arts Foundation (training, equipment, information, consultations, and exhibition opportunities to independent filmmakers)
Frameline (the best in lgbt media since 1977)
The Video Activist Network (activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice)
Anthology Film Archive (n.y. preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with focus on american independent and avant-garde and its precursors in european, soviet and japanese film)
Film-makers’ Cooperative (archive and distributor of independent and
avant-garde films)
International Documentary Association (supporting the efforts of nonfiction film and video makers)
Microcinema International (specializes in the acquisition, exhibition, and distribution of independently produced works of an artistic and socially-relevant nature)
Filmsound (learning space dedicated to the art and analyses of film sound design)
iota Center (site dedicated to art of abstraction in the moving image & sound)
Art Office (actively seeks, promotes and presents contemporary video and film in art contexts)
Montevideo (important netherlands media art institute)
Video Data Bank (leading resource in the u.s for videotapes by and about contemporary artists)
• SOUND + MUSIC SPECIFIC LINKS
Generator (resource for sound artists and related projects)
Glossery of audio terms (second only to the below)
[ Rane ] Pro Audio Reference (uber audio reference link — very educational)
New Adventures in Sound Art (canadian society dedicated to sound art — lots of links and resources)
Dolmetsch (unbelievable exhaustive history of music)
Aquarius Records (sf record store — educational web site with an eye toward experimental)
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (berkeley org dedicated to interaction between music and technology)
Oddmusic (unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments)
The History of Sound Recording Technology (like it says)
Film Sound History (like it says)
generator (a resource for sound artists and sound art related projects)
Acoustic Ecology Research Group (sound as component of natural & artificial environments; its effects on health, cognition & culture)
The World Soundscape Project (established as an educational and research group by vancouver folks in the 70’s)
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (folks engaged in the study of social, cultural, and ecological aspects of the sonic environment)
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music (organization of composers, performers, and teachers of electro-acoustic music)
23five Incorporated (artists resource dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound works in the public arena)
20th Century Composers (like it says)
Granular Synthesis (all things & people granular synthesis [electro-acoustic])
Harry Partch Society (dedicated to innovative composer harry partch)
Columbia Universities Computer Music Center (oldest center for electroacoustic music in the united states)
Electronic Music Foundation (dedicated to the creative potential of electronic music)
:: epsilon :: (nerdy site dedicated to ambient music ala brian eno)
Hertz-Lion (experimental music chronicled, hard to define, check it out!)
Improvised Music from Japan (links to key players involved in the movement)
Microtonal Music (all things microtonal music — learn more)
Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide (vermont folk life center)
HomeRecording.com (forum for information about…)
Music 1-2-3 (unusual & inexpensive insturments)
Experimental Musical Instruments (wonderful resource and information portal, home to peizo tape mics)
Behringer (entry-level relatively inexpensive equipment for recording, filtering, and processing audio)
Back to Basics Toys (useful site with inexpensive and functional unusual & toy instruments)
Bash the Trash (build musical instruments from recycled materials)
Speak to Me (bizarre catalogue of programmable greeting cards)
contactmic (educational site for using/building contact mics)
Granular Synthesis (info about)
Granular synthesis (granular synthesis software for the pc)
Audio Mulch (recording/processing software for the pc)
Big Briar (bob moog’s analogue synthesis products)
Hitsquad (exhaustive links to audio-related software for all platforms)
SSEYO (mobile device audio software)
SoundDogs (free sound samples)
Effects (list of outboard hardware effects and audio processing equipment)
Find Sounds (searchable free sound samples)
WavSource (free sounds)
Nature Sounds (free nature sounds)
GNUsic.net (an open studio on the net for electronic musicians)
Contact Microphone Resource (all things contact mic)
Max Objects Database (catalogue of Max/MSP related data and objects)
EnviroMeasure (helpful site cataloguing electroacoustic software and information)
Recordings of Solar Sounds (information about and samples of solar sound recordings)
Sonic Arts Network (organization working with sound and technology in creative, innovative and experimental ways)
ACOUSTIC.SPACE.RE-SEARCH.LAB (co-op of international artists’ groups and individuals from the Xchange network) Auroralchorus (music of the magnetosphere and space weather — very cool)
The Sound Sculpture Page (dartmouth university)
• CONTEMPORARY ART OPPS + CRITICAL THEORY DISCUSSION LISTS
.microsound (unmediated mailing list oriented toward discussion of the styles of digital and post-digital music)
netEX (opps list with rss feeds)
Artservis (comprehensive international opps subscription service with portals to artist resources; has rss feeds)
nettime (subscription emal list for networked cultures, politics, and tactics)
SPECTRE (subscription email list for media art and culture in europe)
UNXposed (subscription email list for international contemporary art ops)
Art Deadline List (deadlines for funding opps, etc)
• FUNDING
CEC Artslink (money for individual artsts with projects specific to e.european countries
Creative Capital (artists funding toolbox + grant money)
Foundation Center (uber funding mega-portal with tips and resources for individual grantseekers)
Artadia (encourages innovative practice and meaningful dialogue across u.s. by providing visual artists in specific communities with unrestricted awards and a national network of support)
Fulbright Scholar Program (funding for international exchange)
TransArtists (extensive links to european funding opportunities)
The Fund for Folk Culture (funding folk life and traditional arts in the u.s.
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online (pay site with extensive info for grantseekers)