Artists
Keywords: physical phenomena, telepresence, telerobotics
Keywords: mobile devices, networks, networking, internet, physical forms of virtual processes
Keywords: memory, LED, pixelation, image processing, electronic scuplture
Keywords: interactive video, narrative, panoramic projection
Keywords: VR, immersive environments, motion tracking, nature
Keywords: robotics, interactivity, lighting
Keywords: video projection, internet, IR-tracking
Keywords: interactive narrative, interactive film, installation, bodily interaction
Keywords: artificial intelligence, animatronics, language, speech
Keywords: IR tracking, sound mapping, particle images
Keywords: GPS, virtuality, avatars
Keywords: Telepresence, telerobotics.
Keywords: interactive videodisk, narrative, hypermedia, voyeurism
Keywords: barcodes, virtuality, interactivity, games, control over technology
Keywords: sound and light environments, motion capture
Keywords: music, score-writing, image-sound relations
Keywords: physical phenomena, nature, simulation, LED
Keywords: mobile phones, pain and suffering, adapted electronic devices
Keywords: telepresence, cyborgism, human-machine interfacing, networks
Keywords: database, archiving, self organising algorithms, narrative
Keywords: speech visualization, mobile phones, music, performance, gesture
Keywords: architecture, telepresence, internet, large scale projection
Keywords: electronic sculpture, time, control
Keywords: artificial life, web browsing. Collaborator: Sommerer, Christa (1964, Austria)
Keywords: VR, architectural installations, interactive light and sound environments
Keywords: sound & video, sound analysis, binaural audio, GPS
Keywords: place representation, interactivity, immersive environments, stereoscopic projection
Keywords: women & technology, cyberfeminism, interactive video
Keywords: robotics, emergence, CAVE, communication, immersive systems.
Keywords: data sonification, data mapping, atmospheric science, interactivity, eye and video tracking, performance technology
Keywords: artificial life, nature and technology, robotics
Keywords: performance, installation, games, interactive narrative, robotics, body, mechatronics, telematic control
Keywords: surveillance, artificial intelligence, image and speech analysis
Keywords: Surveillance, data bodies, time, temporality, movement and space.
Keywords: text, image and/or sound relationships, virtual reality
Keywords: telematics, telepresence, video projection
Keywords: (future) cinema, computer graphics, virtuality
Keywords: physical interaction with / projections of / animated text
Keywords: disembodiment, bodily interaction, recording and playback, projection
Keywords: artificial life, web browsing. Collaborator: Mignonneau, Laurent (1967, France)
Keywords: body and technology, prosthetics, robotics, VR, internet
Keywords: art in the public space, stroboscopic projection
Keywords: networks, public vs private space, performance, social codes, surveillance, telepresence.
Keywords: speech recognition, gesture and voice interpretation, emotional mapping
Keywords: sound, light, interactivity
Keywords: virtuality, databases, (online) communities, networks
Keywords: robotics, light, sound, interactivity
Keywords: architecture, semantics, databases, visual representation. Collaborator: Wattenberg, Martin (1970, USA)
Keywords: digital imaging, animation, interactive animation, internet art
Keywords: architecture, semantics, databases, visual representation. Collaborator: Walczak, Marek (1957, USA)
Keywords: telecommunications, artificial intelligence, environmental and biological sensing, GPS, mapping of conceptual and emotional space to physical space
Keywords: interactive sculpture, technology and nature,.
Keywords: interactive sculpture, technology and nature
Books
Editor: Timothy Druckery. Description: A collection of the more interesting essays presented at Ars Electronica over the past 20 years. Essays have been categorised into history, theory, and practice and authors include artists, cultural philosophers, theorists, and educators in computer science and artificial intelligence and researchers in virtual reality, telecommunications, and media.
Author: Frank Popper. Description: A historical overview of the electronic arts covering laser/holographic art, video art, computer art, and communication art.
Editors: Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau. Description: This book consists of a collection of essays about the convergence of the natural sciences and the arts in the age of digitalization. The two dozen texts cover the fields of visualization, telecommunication, artificial life, complex systems and the chaos theory as well as metatheoretical considerations.
Authors: Arjen Mulder & Maaike Post. Description: In five essays, the classical concept of art is reevaluated with respect to electronic art. Major artists feature in the book, and interviews with pioneers and theorists of electronic art are included as well.
Author: Christian Möller. Description: This monograph describes a fascinating balancing act between the analogue and digital worlds, performed by Christian Möller, a trained architect and one of the pioneers of interactive art. This lavishly illustrated report covers the extensive body of work output by Möller between 1991 and 2003.
Author: Christiane Paul. Description: Compact, beautifully illustrated investigation of the various forms of digital art.
Author: Margot Lovejoy. Description: Digital Currents surveys the major impact of video and digital technologies on visual culture and artistic practice and examines the revolutionary changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. It recounts the involvement of those artists who pioneered early use of electronic mediums in the arts, describing the developments of entirely new forms of representation and practice such as those associated with video and digital installations, net art, viewer participation, and virtual, augmented reality. An accompanying website can be found here.
Author: Stephen Wilson. Description: Comprehensive overview of art intersecting with various fields of science and technology. Features a large collection of artists. A website by the author containing additional information can be found here.
Editors: Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels. Description: This text reader presents a panorama of international media art and its contexts. The book features the most important essays, accompanied online by multimedia and audiovisual representations of media art. The book is bi-lingual (German and English) and an accompanying website can be found here.
Editors: Randall Packer, Ken Jordan, William Gibson. Description: The history of multimedia, from its pre-digital roots to the computer-based work of today captured in a collection of articles. There is an accompanying website at www.artmuseum.net
Editors: Martin Rieser & Andrea Zapp. Description: Investigation into new forms of visual representation and narrative brought about by new media. The work of leading cultural theorists and philosophers is juxtaposed against that of new media artists. The book includes a DVD-ROM.
Author: Lev Manovich. Description: New media is placed in within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries, providing a systematic theory of new media. A website offering illustrations to accompany the book can be found here.
Editor: Ken Goldberg. Description: A collection of essays initiating a critical theory of telerobotics and introduces telepistemology, the study of knowledge acquired at a distance. The seventeen essays, by leading figures in philosophy, art, history, and engineering, are organized into three sections: Philosophy; Art, History, and Critical Theory; and Engineering, Interface, and System Design. The book contains many references to telerobotic art and artworks, even in the non-art sections and Ken Goldberg, Lev Manovich, and Eduardo Kac are among the contributors.
Editors: Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort. Description: This reader collects texts, videos, and computer programs that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the new media field. The texts are from computer scientists, artists, architects, literary writers, interface designers, cultural critics, and individuals working across disciplines. They were originally published between WWII and the emergence of the WWW. The CD accompanying the book contains examples of early games, digital art, independent literary efforts, software created at universities, and home-computer commercial software, as well as digitized video, documenting new media programs and artwork for which no operational version exists. An accompanying website can be found here.
Author: Gabriella Giannachi. Description: Virtual Theatres investigates the interface between theatre, performance and digital arts. It porvides an analysis of the aesthetic concerns of current computer-arts practices through discussion of a variety of artists and performers including Blast Theory, Eduardo Kac, Lynn Hershman, Jodi, Orlan Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Marcel-la Ant.nez Roca, Jeffrey Shaw and Stelarc.
Collectives
Members: Roman Kirschner, Tilman Reiff, Volker Morawe. Keywords: games, game extensions, pain.
Members: Bill Ballou, Bruce Odland, Cecile Bouchier, Christopher Kondek, Danny Schefler, Donald Holder, George Tsypin, Gerald Schalek, Marc Antony Fernandez, Michael Blanco, Rachel de Boer, Sam Auinger, Sally Odland, Chris Salter, Jacqui Millar. Keywords: sound, soundscapes, instruments
Members: Sylvie Bourguet, Grégoire Cliquet, Yann Le Guennec, Laurent Neyssensas. Keywords: Devices, installations, remote control, interactivity,
networks.
Members: Jan Torpus (Switzerland), Michel Durieux (Netherlands)
Members: Christian Smretschnig, Michael Bieglmayer, Roland Graf, Werner Schmid,Christian Troger, Elmar Trojer. Keywords: force-feedback, tactility, networks
Members: Matt Adams, Jamie Iddon, Ju Row Farr, Nicholas Tandavanitj. Keywords: games, GPS, internet
Members: Rene Gabri, Erin McGonigle and Heimo Lattner. Keywords: sound, narrative, bus tours
Members: Rolf Gehlhaar, Andrew Shoben and Sabine Tress. Keywords: public space, sound, architecture
Members: Christian Hübler (Austria), Alexander Tuchacek (Austria) and Yvonne Wilhelm (Germany). Keywords: information, archiving, networks, interfacing
Members: Eric Singer, David Bianciardi, Kevin Larke, Jeff Feddersen, Milena Iossifova, Michelle Cherian, Brendan J. FitzGerald, Chad Redmon, and Bil Bowen. Keywords: musical instruments, robotics
Founded by: Michael Mastrototaro and Sabine Maier. Keywords: Interactive installation, net-art, public space, sound, video.
Founded by:: Masamichi and Nobumichi Tosa. Keywords: Nonsense toys, musical instruments, performance.
Founded by: Matthias Gommel, Martina Haitz, Jan Zappe. Keywords: robotics
Director: Mark Pauline. Keywords: (tele)robotics, military equipment, explosives, performance, pyrotechnics
Large collective centered by Michael Saup - Collaboration ended in 2002
Founded by: Tim Boykett (Australia) and Just Merit (Austria). Keywords: control, perception, biomechanics, VR
Communities
Form: Mailing list. Description: A mailing list for the media arts in Scotland. Features discussions and announcements relating to the development of new art forms employing electronic or media technologies and issues relating to media art, both in Scotland and internationally.
Form: Mailing list. Description: Forum aiming to connect new media artists, critics and curators within New Zealand and Kiwis working internationally.
Form: Local mailinglists and (physical) meetings. Frequency: Differs per location Description: People doing strange things with electricity; A meeting of artists (sound / image / movement / whatever), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties from the local area who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term). There are dorkbots in NYC (USA), London(UK), Gent (Belgium), SF (USA), Linz(Austria), Melbourne (Australia), Mumbai (India), Seattle (USA), Rotterdam and Eindhoven (Netherlands), and Lisbon (Portugal).
Form: Mailing list. Description: Empyre is an arena for the discussion of media arts practice that regularly invites practicioners, curators and theorists in the media arts field to discuss specific projects, publications, and issues.
Form: Mailing list. Description: Fibreculture is about critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information technology, the policy that concerns it, the new media for(u)ms it supports and its sustainable deployment towards a more equitable Australia. Fibreculture is a forum for the exchange of articles, ideas and arguments on Australian IT policy in a broad, cultural context. It concerns the philosophy and politics of new media arts, formation and creative industries, national strategies for innovation, research and development, education, and media and culture.
Form: Mailing list. Frequency: Monthly. Description: The latest news, events, opportunities, and info in the cross-borders of art, science and technology.
Form: Email news service. Organisation: Rhizome. Frequency: Daily. Description: Daily news service covering the new media art world, delivered in HTML, with graphics, images and links. Membership: Need to be a member of Rhizome($5/year)
Form: Mailing list. Frequency: Few times per week. Description: Mailing lists for networked cultures, politics, and tactics. Includes coverage of activities in the electronic arts with listings of announcements, opportunities, etc. Unmoderated and different language versions also available.
Form: Online platform. Description: Netzspannung.org is a dynamic knowledge portal for digital culture.
The platform serves as a multi-disciplinary link between media art and media design, science and technology and communicates the many different activities in the media culture scene in an up-to-the-minute information pool. Artists, media designers and IT specialists can publish and present their work online on the platform. Similar material is linked up and contextualised. At the same time curators, journalists and scientists are actively supported in their research and gain intuitive access to processed information.
Form: Mailing list. Organisation: Rhizome. Frequency: Weekly. Description: filtered selection of messages from Rhizome Raw that are compiled into a single weekly message. Rhizome Digest includes listings, reviews, commentary, announcements and edited threads. Raw, rare, and tech mailing lists also available. Membership: Need to be a member of Rhizome ($5/year)
Form: Mailing list. Description: SPECTRE is an open, unmoderated mailing list for media art and culture in Europe. SPECTRE is a channel for people involved in old and new media in art and culture. Importantly, many people on this list know each other personally. SPECTRE aims to facilitate real-life meetings and favours real face-to-face (screen - to - screen) cooperation, test-bed experiences and environments to provoke querying of issues of cultural identity / identification and difference.
Form: Mailing list. Description: Syndicate mailing list is a communication project of Syndicate network, established as a platform for the exchange of information between East and West European cultural activists. As an open virtual community Syndicate network is transcending national frontiers and provides, with Syndicate mailing list, an unmoderated channel for announcements as well as for discussions on projects, events and the political situation experienced.
Form: Mailing list. Description: YASMIN is a network of artists, scientists, engineers, theoreticians and institutions promoting communication and collaboration in art, science and technology around the Mediterranean Rim. YASMIN welcomes information on events, artists' works, organisations' programmes, projects, initiatives as well as discussions and critical analysis in the field of art, science and technology around the Mediterranean Rim. YASMIN aims to identify the players and to facilitate cooperations within the Mediterranean Rim.
Ezines
Description: The site began in 1999 as a place where creative people bridging traditional boundaries in art, design, technology, and science could be linked. Now something interesting inbetween an ezine and a blog.
Description: ArtNodes is an academic space on art, science and technology intersections. ArtNodes reflects, from a critical distance, provoking debate and providing key materials. ArtNodes observes, scanning the entire world for new, emerging forms among existing disciplines. ArtNodes interacts, trying to create dialogue and debate around the controversies we raise.
Description: Ezine about elctronic culture and digital art. Remarks: Italian version only.
Description: fineArt forum is the longest running arts magazine on the Internet. It explores the relationship between the arts, sciences and technology and serves the community of creative people working in the 'two cultures' with news and information to assist and enable their work. fineArt forum also issues a monthly newsletter listing events and opportunities in the field of art and technology.
Description: HorizonZero is a collaboration between The Banff New Media Institute and the Culture.ca gateway, with the objective of disseminating to the public the rich array of digital arts and culture in Canada with an emphasis on commissioning and promoting Canadian new media content and innovators in the convergent fields of science, technology, media arts, and research.
Description: the Leonardo Electronic Almanac is the electronic arm of Leonardo - Journal of Art, Science & Technology. LEA is jointly produced by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and published under the auspices of MIT Press.
Description: MAzine is an online project run by the post graduate community at Ravensbourne College. Contributors are involved in research areas as diverse as ecology, intellectual property, digital satire, mobile media, net art, hacktivism, the visualisation of data, emergence and epistemology, node nurturing and responsive environments. MAzine's aim is to develop a dynamic space for those engaged in post graduate or other research across the UK, Europe, Asia and the Americas to serve as (1) a showcase for innovation in art, design, science and technology, (2) a platform that challenges ideas about intellectual property, (3) an experimental model for online collaboration and publication and (4) a new home for research using the potential of the digital domain.
Description: A daily updated site on new media art, electronic music and hacktivism, quarterly printed as magazine. Both an Italian and a (smaller) English version are available.
Description: A website devoted to culture-new technologies interrelations and influences. "Culture" also means "habits", "lifestyles", "communications", "art", "society", "economy", "media", "philosophy"..., while "new technologies" should be intended in a broader meaning than the digital realm.
Description: Online journal consisting of a quarterly refereed journal of media arts and culture, a monthly magazine of informal pieces concerning media arts, a multimedia gallery, and a weekly updated listing of news and events in media and media arts.
Description: A new media art journal interested in fostering a critical viewpoint on issues and developments in the multiple crossovers between art and technology. It aims to critically evaluate developments in art and technology in order to contribute to the formation of alternative viewpoints with the intention of expanding the arena in which new art and technology emerge.
Festivals
Location: Los Angeles, U.S.A. Organised by: School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Time-based media
Location: Linz, Austria. Organised by: Ars Electronica Center. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Art, Technology, and Society. Next issue: September 2004
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands. Organised by: Studium Generale, Eindhoven University of Technology. Frequency: Biennial. Subject: Art & Technology
Location: Spain. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Digital Technologies and New Media.
Location: Paris, France. Subject: Art, Technology and Biology
Location: Nomadic. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Robotic art and art-making robots. Next issue: July 2005 (Ireland).
Location: Helsinki, Finland. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Non-conformist music and moving image.
Location: Ancona, Italy. Frequency: Annual. Subject: New media art.
Location: Perth, Australia. Frequency: Biennial. Subject: Electronic Art. Next issue: September - November 2004.
Location: Beijing, China. Organised by: Tsinghua University, ZKM, V2_. Frequency: Annual. Subject: New media art.
Location: Boston, USA. Organised by: Boston Cyberarts. Frequency: Biennial. Subject: Art and Technology in all media
Location: Bilbao, Spain. Subject: New Technologies, Art, and Communication.
Location: Halle, Germany. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Interactive Media.
Location: Tokyo, Japan. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Japanese digital art.
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands. Organised by: V2_ ,Institute for the Unstable Media. Frequency: Biennial. Subject: Electronic Art
Location: Newcastle, Australia. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Digital, Electronic and New Media Arts.
Location: Montreal, Canada. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Electronic music, digital imagery, and robotics.
Location: Osnabrücke, Germany. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Media Art.
Location: Prague, Czech Republic. Frequency: Annual. Subject: A rt and New Technolgies.
Location: Creteil, France. Organised by: Maison des Arts, Creteil. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Culture and New Technologies
Location: Maubeuge, France / Mons, Belgium. Organised by: Le Manege. Frequency: Annual. Subject: New Media Art
Location: Stralsund, Germany. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Art and new media.
Location: Lima, Peru. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Video and electronic art.
Location: São Paulo, Brazil. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Digital Culture and New Media.
Location: Manchester, UK. Subject: Electronic music and media arts.
Location: Yucatan, Mexico. Frequency: Biennial. Subject: New Media
Location: Rosario City, Argentina. Organised by: Astas Romas. Frequency: Subject: Electronic Art. Next issue: December 2004.
Location: Varies, nomadic. Frequency: Biennial. Subject: New Media Art,Technology, and Science. Next issue: August 2006, in San Jose, USA.
Location: Tokyo, Japan. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Digital art, entertaiment, manga, animation. Next issue: February/March 2005.
Location: Los Angeles, USA. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Innovative and culturally relevant independent new media from around the world.
Location: Various in Asia Pacific area. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Asian-Pacific multimedia art
Location: Various, nomadic. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Arts and technology, artificial intelligence in the arts, new human-machine interactions.
Location: Bangkok, Thailand. Organised by: Initiative for Cultural Exchange and Computer Arts, Thailand. Frequency: Annual. Subject: New media arts.
Location: Greece. Organised by: Fournos, center for the Art and the new Technologies. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Art and Technology
Location: Birmingham, UK. Subject: Innovation and new practice in digital arts media.
Location:Hong Kong, China. Organised by: Microwave Co. Ltd. and Videotage. Frequency: Annual. Subject: New media art.
Location: Montreal, Canada. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Cinema and New Media.
Location: Montreal, Cananda. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Music, sound, and new technologies.
Location: Vancouver, Canada. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Contemporary media arts and culture. Next issue: October 2004.
Location: Helsinki, Finland. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Electronic art, design and technology.
Location: Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Computer art
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Organised by:Carlo Sansolo and Érika Fraenkel. Frequency: Annual. Subject:Art and Technology. Next issue: July 2005.
Location: Nottingham, UK. Organised by: Trampoline. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Electronic arts. Next issue: October 2005.
Location:Planned to be nomadic. Organised by:Radioqualia and ((ethermap. Frequency: Unknown. Subject: Remoteness and technology.
Location: USA. Organsised by: Siggraph. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Computer related arts
Location: Barcelona, Spain. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Advanced Music and Multimedia Art
Location: Stuttgart, Germany. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Relationships and differences between film, video, and new media.
Location: Toronto, Canada. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Art and Science
Location: Bangkok, Thailand. Organised by: ICECA, Cultural Exchange and Computer Arts. Frequency: Annual. Subject: New media art. Next issue: March 2004
Location: Beijing, China. Organised by: Tsinghua University, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, and V2_. Subject: New media arts. Next issue: June 2005.
Location: Berlin, Germany. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Media Art. Next issue: February 2005
Location: Chicago, USA. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Technology, society, arts, activism, and culture.
Location: Auckland, New Zealand. Organised by:Version. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Art, design, music, science and technology.
Location: Madrid, Spain. Organised by: Telefonica Foundation. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Art and Artificial Life. Remarks: Not a festival but an annual competition.
Location:São Paulo, Brazil. Organised by: Associação Cultural Videobrasil and SESC São Paulo. Frequency: Biennial. Subject: Art and technology.
Location: Paris, France. Frequency: Biennial. Subject: New Media Art
Location: Basel, Switzerland. Frequency: Annual. Subject: Film, video and new media.
Location: Wroclaw, Poland. Organised by: WRO Center for Media Art. Frequency: Biennial. Subject: New Media Art
Institutions
Location: Melbourne, Australia. Description: Centre for the public exhibition, display, and preservation of Australian and international screen content in all its forms. Activities: Exhibitions, screenings, education, production, events.
Location: Zürich, Switzerland. Description: The intention of the AIL program is to share common goals, to broaden the dialogue, generate ideas and raise awareness of the contributions both artists and scientists can make to the larger challenges of our time. Providing a research environment where these experiments can take place makes all the difference. The AIL co-operation with Swiss Science laboratories is a conscious attempt to encourage the development of the primary creative forces shared by both disciplines. Activities: Realization of art and science residencies, sponsorship.
Location: Adelaide, Australia. Description: Australia's peak network and advocacy body for artists working with science and technology. Activities: Events and exhibitions, workshops, mailinglist and newsletter.
Location: Linz, Austria. Description: Organization concerned with international media art and cutting edge technologies and the discussion of their influences on life, work and society. Activities: Festival, museum of the future, presentations, research in its own futurelab, online archive, publishing.
Location: Seoul, Korea. Description: A non-profit center for new media art aiming to nurture creativity through intercommunication among various fields of research and experiments, such as humanities, social sciences, pure and applied sciences, technology and art. Human-centered and sensitive to cultural differences, Nabi seeks a higher level of communication thatthe existing market mechanisms cannot offer. Activities: Research, exhibitions, education, artist support.
Location: São Paulo, Brazil. Description: A non-profit institution that works for the development and diffusion of electronic art of Brazil, of Portuguese-speaking countries and the regions of the southern circuit: Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Eastern Europe, Middle East, South-east Asia and Oceania. Activities: Festival, screenings, seminars, collecting and documenting, online newsletter.
Location:Johannesburg, South Africa. Description: Organisation promoting, exploring, discussing, and exhibiting art and (artists working with) technology in South Africa and the world. Activities: Presentations, performances, exhibtions.
Location: Bergen, Norway. Description: A non-profit organization, providing resources and knowledge for artists and others working in the field of arts and new technology.
Activities: Media lab, workshops, presentations.
Location: Banff, Canada. Description: A research and content innovation centre with an international and cross-cultural perspective and with a fundamental belief that the creative sector in collaboration with scientists, social scientists, and humanists have a critical role to play in developing technologies and content that work for human betterment. Activities: Research, summits, professional development workshops, co-productions, partnerships, project commissions, academic exchanges, and publishing and business incubation.
Location: Budapest, Hungary. Description: Organization concerned with the cultural application and creative employment of new scientific and technological discoveries, the research, development and support of innovative artistic potentials, and the initiation and realisation of art, science, communications, educational and cultural programmes. Activities: Presentations, gallery, publishing, artistic production.
Location: University of Wales College, Newport (CAiiA), and University of Plymouth, Plymouth (Star), UK. Description: A world-wide transdisciplinary research community. It combines, as an integrated research platform, CAiiA, the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, and STAR, the Science Technology and Art Research centre. CAiiA-STAR has the aim of creating new knowledge through research in the theory and practice of interactive art , and is recognised as a leading centre in this field. Activities: Research and conferences.
Location: Tokyo, Japan. Description: Experimental laboratory of experimental media art created through collaboration of artists and computer engineers. Activities: R&D and production, exhibition.
Location: Mexico City, Mexico. Description: A space dedicated to experimentation, investigation, development, and diffusion of artistic practice in digital media. Activities: Education, residencies, forums, seminars, conferences, exhibitions. Remarks: Site in Spanish only.
Location: Stockholm, Sweden. Description: A digital media workshop that operates as an interdisciplinary platform, and as an embassy for rethinking how new media can and should be used. The aim is to establish a living dialogue between art and technology, where the overarching strategic goal is to give art as a whole a role in the ever-expanding electronic public space.
Activities: Events, medialab, education.
Location: Bristol, UK. Description:Organisation that supports creative work that can explore how the digital processes are shaping our understanding of the world and giving new breadth to the imagination. DA2 has been established to facilitate and produce an integrated three year programme focussed on the South West of England. Activities: Exhibitions, events, and skills development.
Location: Montreal, Canada. Description: A private, non-profit organization aiming to further knowledge of the arts and sciences by combining the two with the help of technology. The Foundation also hopes to foster critical thinking about how technology affects our society, surroundings and culture. In addition, the Foundation encourages the exploration of the aesthetics specific to our technological environments. Activities: Documenting and archiving, research, funding.
Location: Dublin, Ireland. Description: Organisation formed with the intention of promoting, exploring, discussing, and exhibiting art and technology in Ireland and the world. DATA is built on the idea that collaboration between artists, musicians, technologists, and academia is the key element in creating a rich cultural environment for the dialogue and conception of technological art practices. Activities: Presentations, performances, exhibitions, mailing list.
Location: Syndey, Australia. Description: An incorporated, not-for-profit association which encourages the development and critical discussion of innovative film, video, new media and sound arts by emerging and established artists in Australia, and actively promotes and exhibits this work to diverse audiences nationally and internationally. Activities: Presentation, exhibitions, conferences.
Location: New York, USA. Description: A nonprofit media arts organization that is one of the world’s leading resources for artists' video and new media. Activities: Distribution, preservation, online resources, viewing access, screenings, exhibitions, and events.
Location: Malmö, Sweden. Description: A nonprofit organization promoting and advocating computer based art in Sweden and the other Nordic countries. Electrohypes main objective is establish the basis for growth and a supportive environment this art form here in Scandinavia. Activities: Biennial festival, exhibitions, seminars and workshops.
Location: Melbourne, Australia. Description: Experimenta is where creativity and technology meet. By encouraging a convergence across a range of disciplines including interactive technologies, multimedia, digital music, virtual reality, animation and visual effects, Experimenta fosters artistic experimentation that extends the aesthetic and conceptual potential of art. Activities: Exhibitions, forums, events, publishing of online journal MESH, e-bulletin.
Location: New York, USA. Description: A not-for-profit new media arts organization established to provide access, education, and support for students, artists, and the general public in the field of art and technology. Activities: Education, research, production, and exhibition.
Location: Liverpool, UK. Description: The UK's leading organisation for the support & exhibition of film, video and new media projects. Activities: Commissioning, production and presentation of film, video, and new media art, R&D in own medialab, education.
Location: Athens, Greece. Description: Fournos is a proposal for a flexible Model in the research and production space of the Digital Culture of the 21st century. Activities: Research, production, education and training, festival, development of a cultural network of artists, centers, researchers, philosophers, technologists, activists.
Location: Hull, UK. Description: An artist led organization which produces and exhibits new work and researches time based arts: video and sound art, live-art and performance, media installation, multi-media and digital art. Activities: Digital production facilities, consultancy and support, commissions, residencies, a rolling programme of events and training opportunities.
Location: Ogaki, Japan. Description: Two schools that endeavor to produce the media masters who will break new ground and lead society into the multimedia-orientated era. Activities: Education, research, festival, exhibitions, symposiums, and workshops.
Location: Tokyo, Japan. Description: Organization that wishes to encourage the dialogue between technology and the arts with a core theme of communication, thereby building an affluent society for the future. Through such dialogue, it also aims to become a network that links artists and scientists worldwide, as well as a center for information exchange. Activities: Exhibitions, workshops, performances, symposiums, and publishing.
Location: Bangkok, Thailand. Description: Pioneer new media arts independent foundation in Thailand Activities: Education, festival.
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Description: Organisation offering artists a platform for realising their cutting edge new media projects and conducting theoretical research into new media. Activities: Research, symposia, networking, residencies.
Location: Toronto, Canada. Description: Organization that offers a community network and resource base to enable artists and the public to explore the intersection of culture and technology through the creation, exhibition, and critique of electronic art forms and new communications media. Activities: Gallery space and exhibitions, eucational frums and citical ivestigations, poduction facilities and skills dvelopment.
Location: Stockholm, Sweden. Description: A multidisciplinary, innovation-oriented research institute working in the area of digital media. The Institute operates in the border zone between art, technology, science and enterprise. Activities: Research and development.
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Description: Non-profit international organization whose membership and collaborators consists of a wide range of individuals and institutions involved in the creative, theoretical and technological aspects of electronic arts. The aim of ISEA is to establish and facilitate inter-disciplinary communication in the field of art, technology, science, education and industry. Activities: International Advisory Committee, on-line network, bi-monthly newsletter, International Symposium on Electronic Art.
Location: New York, USA. Description: Not-for-profit organisation dedicated to new media art with both physical and virtual aspects, and fostering cross-discipline collaborations between tech-oriented people and artists from traditional art disciplines. Activities: Exhibitions, events, webcasting, artist in residence program.
Location: Helsinki, Finland. Description: Organization established to support production, research and development of new media culture by an active involvement in the practices, policies and structures of the field.
Activities: R&D and production in own media centre, publishing, international events and conferences.
Location: Götheborg, Sweden. Description:Mobileart is an organization focussing on the advancement of digital and net-based art.
Through exhibitions both on- and offline, Mobileart seeks to create a forum for activities, meetings and information revolving around such art forms as visual art, music, design and architecture. Activities: Exhibitions
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Description: Organisation for the promotion of the wide development, application and distribution of, and reflection on new technologies in the visual arts. Activities: Presentation, research, collection, distribution, and conservation.
Location: Edinburgh, UK. Description: An agency enabling arts activity shaped by new technologies that supports research and development in new media, creates opportunities for artists and provide information to the media art community in Scotland. Activities: Production, exhibition.
Location: Melbourne. Description: Australia's first and only new media arts consultancy and agency.Activities: Management, production, exhibition, education.
Location: Vienna, Austria. Description: A non-profit internet provider and a platform for the participatory use of information and communication technology. Activities: Internet provider, events, presentations, exhibitions, workshops.
Location: New York, USA. Description: A nonprofit organization that was founded in 1996 to provide an online platform for the global new media art community. Activities: Commissions, email discussions and publications, web site, and events.
Location: Riga, Latvia. Description: A joint effort of a number of independent local cultural groups working in the fields of new media, art, film, music, youth culture and the social projects, RIXC aims to bridge the traditional gap between 'high' and popular culture and the divisions between various youth, sub- and minority cultures. Activities: Public events, media lab, research, education.
Location: Delhi, India. Description: An alternative, non-profit space for an imaginative reconstitution of urban public culture, new/old media practice and research and critical cultural intervention. Activities: Media Research & Theory, Media Practice and History, Free Software Development, Web Based Practices, Multimedia & Digital Art, Workshops & Seminars, Training, Lectures/Talks/Presentation, Advocacy & Education, Film/Video/Multimedia Screenings, Online Journal & Website, Publications.
Location: Montreal, Canada. Description: A transdisciplinary centre dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and conservation of digital culture. Activities: Research, production, events, exhibitions.
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Description: The only independent live electronic music centre in the world that is exclusively dedicated to the performing arts. Activities: R&D of instruments & tools for performers in the electronic performance arts, laboratory, workshop, international meeting place, artist hotel, production office, presentations, exhibitions and performances, and Nomad studio.
Location: London, UK Description: The Arts Catalyst's mission is to extend, promote and activate a fundamental shift in the dialogue between art and science and its perception by the public. We organise and promote exchange and collaborations between artists and scientists, and new research in multidisciplinary laboratory situations. The Arts Catalyst has pioneered several new territories for art practice in its nearly 10 year existence; space agencies, nuclear facilities and high-tech research laboratories have all become arenas for art. Activities: Education, exchanges, collaborations, exhibitions, events.
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands. Description: Organization that concerns itself with research and development in the field of art and media technology. Activities: Presentations, festival, research in its own media lab, publishing, development of an online archive, selling products related to fields of interest through own shop.
Location: Hong Kong, China. Description: A non-profit organisation dedicated to provide support to innovative media artists in local and international arts scene. Activities: Exhibitions, publications, seminars, workshops, courses, research.
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Description: A knowledge institute operating on the cutting edge of culture and technology in relation to society, education, government and industry. The interplay of technology and culture is the driving force of all its activities. Activities: Research, concept and software development, public events.
Location: Yamaguchi, Japan. Description: Not yet available. Activities: Exhibitions, events, education.
Location:Silicon Valley, USA. Description:A public benefit organization that provides for the collaboration of art and technology. Activities: Public programs, festival, symposium, artist support.
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany. Description: Organization that probes new media in theory and practice, tests their potential with in-house developments, presents possible uses in exemplary form and promotes debate on the form our information society is taking. Activities: Production and research, exhibitions and events, coordination and documentation.

