This category contains an alphabetically ordered list of links to institutions concerned with the electronic arts, ranging from schools and research centers to institutes for public presentation, funding bodies, and online platforms.
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.