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Below you can find many links to sites from around the world related to arts, culture and education.



             
Last updated - August 2005

 

 

International Contemporary Art Orgs/Artists/Artists' groups
AAVAA (now Diversity Art Forum)
Diversity Art Forum, (formerly the African and Asian Visual Artists' Archive) based at the University of East London.
Adbusters
The Adbusters Media Foundation is a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs, who practice creative cultural resistance.
ANAT: Australian Network for Art and Technology
A network and advocacy organisation for Australian artists working with technology.
anart.no - m e d i a l a b / a r t s e r v e r
An independent artist-run organisation in Norway providing media services and web space for artists working with new technologies.
Ars Electronica NEW
A museum (based in Linz, Austria), webspace and organiser of the international Festival for Art and Technology
Artangel
Based in London, Artangel commissions and produces site-specific art for non-traditional art spaces by international contemporary artists. This Website lists past projects, future commissions and publications.
Art Beatus Gallery
An organisation which collects and promotes international contemporary visual art, particularly artists of Chinese origin (English and Chinese)
The Arts Catalyst
An organisation set up to facilitate science-art interactions and collaborations.
Autograph - Association of Black Photographers
Autograph is a national association for photographers in Britain, of African, Caribbean and South Asian origin.
Boomalli
Web site for Boomalli, the Australian Aboriginal Artists' Co-operative.
C3 - Center for Culture & Communication
Art, culture and media centre in Budapest. (English & Hungarian)
Centre for Contemporary Images NEW
Swiss-based production, exhibition, research and archive for art and media.
 
Creative Time
Arts organisation in New York working with international artists to reach a broad and diverse public audience.
CURARE
Mexican contemporary artists' organisation. (English & Spanish)
DA2 - Digital Arts Development Agency NEW
An organisation which explores digital arts through conferences and newly commissioned projects in the SW England region. The organisation no longer exists but the projects are achived here.
DAM - Digital Art Museum NEW
An online resource for the history and practice digital and computer arts. Currently featuring artists from 1956-1986 the aim is to bring it right up to date, featuring artworks and essays by key practitioners.
Darat Al Funun
A centre for the arts and artists of the arab world, Jordan.
e-2.org NEW
A British artist-rum organisation which commissions and presents digital artworks by established and emerging contemporary artists.
FACT
Foundation for Art & Creative Technologies (formerly Moviola) in Liverpool.
Fluxus Online
Portal for Fluxus artists' group, event, publications exhibitions etc.
Forced Entertainment
Artists' ensemble from Sheffield, producing theatre, installation, digital media and film.
Gate Foundation, Intercultural Contemporary Art Multicultural Society
A foundation, based in Amsterdam, for the promotion of international contemporary arts and development of intercultural arts exchanges
House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt)
An online forum for cultural exchange between Europe, Africa, Asia/Pacific and Latin America. (German, English).
inIVA Online
inIVA Online is the creative online space for digital projects, discussions and news of this contemporary arts organisation, promoting artists from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Irational.org
Web server for new art and media projects. Home of 'CyberSituationist' and digital artist Heath Bunting.
The Junction
Art and media centre based in Cambridge with production and exhibition facilities for artists and young people.
Kiasma Nykytaiteen museo
Website for Kiasma, the museum of contemporary visual and performing art in Helsinki. (in Finnish, English, Swedish and text only)
The Kitchen
Online archive of artists and performances at the landmark electronic arts space in New York.
Ljubljana digital media lab
Digital media centre in Slovenia. (English & Slovenian)
Lux NEW
LUX has regrouped as an archive and facilitation organisation for film and digital video art, but without the cinema or exhibion space.
El Museo del Barrio
Museum of Latin American Arts & Cultural History, New York. (English & Spanish)
Museu de Arte Moderna - Rio de Janeiro
Website for the Museum of Modern Art in Brazil. (English & Portuguese)
Museum of Contemporary Iranian Artists
MoCIA-online Museum of Contemporary Iranian Artists (visual, graphic, performing and applied arts) curated by artist Yari Ostovany. (English)
Nation2Nation
Nation2nation is a collective of first nation (Native American) artists. This site has been set up to discuss and co-ordinate issures of art and culture as a catalyst for creative and collaborative activities.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
Web site for the NYC-based new Museum of Contemporary Art.
198 Gallery
Online exhibition and education archive for this contemporary Black visual arts gallery in London.
Para/Site Art Space
Non-profit artist run space in Hong Kong. (English & Chinese)
The Physics Room
An online space for contemporary art projects, based in New Zealand.
Plexus Artlab
Online environment for digital, audio, video and web-specific media, based in New York. Requires plug-ins!
POOL-INDEX
Exhibition site for young Swedish artists (English)
The Redundant Technology Initiative
Sheffield-based artists group who use low-tech recycled hardware and open-source software to create digital installations,online projects and community access spaces.
Resonance fm NEW
London's unique art radio station on the radio at 104.4fm and online here.
SaffronArt
Commercial online gallery promoting contemporary Indian art and artists.
The Soros Centre for Contemporary Art in Estonia
One of 19 contemporary art centres throughout central and eastern Europe, sponsored by George Soros.
Space Media Arts NEW
The Media Arts wing of SpaceStudios, London's premier organisation for artists' studios, support and training.
 
Survival Research Laboratories
SLR was set up by artist Mark Pauline in 1978. It specialises in mechanized performances using the machinery of industry, science and the military for political and performative art ends. "Humans are present only as audience or operators."
 
Tumblong
Artists' project site connecting the cultural past, present and future of Britain and Australia.
The Walker Art Center
An excellent website for this centre for contemporary visual, performing and media arts which is located in Minneapolis, USA.
Walter Phillips Gallery
Gallery for the exhibition and promotion of Contemporary Art at the Banff centre for the Arts on Canada
X A r t F o u n d a t i o n - Blast
A "mobile catalyst" for developing networks between agencies to inititiate practice and critical debate around the area of cultural practice and global communications.
 
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Online Artists Projects

Airline Meals NEW
"The world's first project about nothing but airline meals."
ArtAIDS
An artists' website commemorating and celebrating the fight against AIDS from 1995-2001.(No longer online.)
Backspace
Online projects from the artists' space for virtual meeting and making.
Cyberspace - Conquered -Cyberbarrio
Guillermo Gómez Peña and Roberto Sifuentes
Michael Atavar
Artist Michael Atavar's online works, including '**** (four stars)', 'snow paper scissors rain' and 'windows'.
Haverhill 2000
a digital portrait of 2000 citizens in Haverhill, Suffolk by artist Chris Dorley-Brown.
© - Help is on da way !
(no longer online.) Stephan Schroder, Phillip Gehler and Joachim Blank's web project which allows you to construct an online 'body' for your cyberself.
The Homestead Project
(no longer online.) A virtual exhibition of art and text exploring the theme of colonisation. The work is made by a group of international artists and was curated for the web by Paul Hertz at the University of Valencia, Spain.
JODI NEW
Aka net.artists/pranksters, JoanHeemskert and Dirk Paesmans whose online works make you think your computer is broken. Visit the relatively mild link above or click www.jodi.org if you dare!...
-------->LOOP -- ----->13 people learning -->numinous ->gallery 37 -->backspace -- ‚The Place Woolwich ‚ london ‚
A collective online sketchbook made by 13 people for Gallery 37, London.
Low-Fi
An artists' collective; a system for locating art projects on the net; a diverse collection of net.art projects.
mb_game
Site of Beijing-based Multimedia artist, Feng Mengbo, who's work conflates the music and themes of traditional Chinese opera with the political narratives of the Cultural Revolution using the structure and strategies of computer games. (English)
El Mexterminator
Guillermo Gómez Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, Eugenio Casho, Rona Michele, Joanna Osburn Bigfeather, Gustavo Vasquez.
Mongrel Tate
"Uncomfortable Proximity" the Tate Web site as reworked by the Mongrel collective
Picture Stories
Projects by: Euridice Auratin & Santiago Echeveny, Daniel Meadows, Diego Goldberg and Pedro Meyer.
My boyfriend came back from the war NEW
An early (1996) net art narrative project by Russian artist Olia Lialina, using hypertext and frames.
"Sensorium"
Tokyo based artists' group including: Takemura Shinichi, Watanabe Yasushi, Higashizumi Ichino, Pamela Virgilio.
Sodaplay NEW
Build and animate wireframe models in the ingenious online game, 'Sodaconstructor'.
Somewhere
Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie's collaborative and individual net.art projects.
SWARM by Jane Prophet
An installation and accompanying online project exploring the spirit of the beehive.
Trigger Happy. Thomson & Craighead.
An art-game by Thompson and Craighead based on the old arcade game Space Invaders but with a Roland Barthes twist. Requires Netscape and IE version 4 or later plus a Shockwave plug-in
TRUISM 8
American artist, Jenny Holzer's "Truisms" - online version
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Education sites by and for children and young people

 
Bullring Project
 
(no longer online.) Digital imaging project made by young people who use the Bullring Centre in Birmingham, exploring issues of identity and space, with support from Jubilee Arts and UCE, England.
Children's Express
A news and current affairs web site by the young journalists of Children's Express.
Colouring our Culture NEW
An international online art project to link students from local Australian and global multicultural communities "through the common medium of art."
GridClub NEW
Channel 4's interactive online space for children.
Infinity Story
Multimedia hypertext story by Godwin Jnr School, London, with artists Camille Dorney and Chelle Hughes. An Art of Change Project.
Planet Volco
Collaborative Internet exchange project between Godwin Jnr School, Newham and Davenport School, Nth Carolina. An Art of Change Project.
Room13 NEW
A pioneering project at Caol Primary School, Fort William Scotland, where pupils run their own their own art studio.
Rosendale Odyssey
(no longer online) A pioneering Photographers' Gallery education project (1997), exploring multimedia memories & journeys, with children of Rosendale Infants school, London.
A Tale of Four cities
(no longer online) International email exchange project, initiated by The Photographers' Gallery (1998). Children in London, Nairobi, Cape Town and Dhaka, exchanged email and images, shared stories and raised issues.
Visible Knowledge Programme
(no longer online) Collaborative education projects between artists and young people, co-ordinated by the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
Childnet International
World link site for children and young people, based in London. (English, Spanish, French and German)
The Whole World Was Watching
An oral history project based on recollections of the civil rights and anti-war activities of 1968 by people talking to a group of Rhode Island (USA) high school students. Includes transcripts and original audio files.
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Education sites for arts, culture and ICT resources

Access Art
Interactive art education web site with a selection of online workshops.
ArtsConnectEd
Web-based educations resource for accessing the collections of the the Walker Arts Centre and the Minneapolis Inst. of Art, containing lesson plans, links an activities.
ArtsEdNet
Getty Institute for Arts Education, extensive online DBAE resources, USA.
BBC Blast Art NEW
BBC site for young people to create digital art online.
Carnival
Arts Council of England site for and about Carnival.
Creative Learning Agency
Web-based arts education information service for South West England.
d@yt - Digital Art in Year 10
A Photographers' Gallery education project and Web resource for secondary school, based on 4 digital artists' residencies at schools in South and East London.
Diacenter Education Program
Arts education programme of this multidisciplinary arts organisation in New York.
Drawing Power
The Campaign for Drawing is a three year initiative advocating the value of drawing for everyone, which involves annual 'Bid Draw' events and a schools research project, 'Power Drawing'.
Engage
Web site for Engage, promoting gallery and museum and artist-run education in Britain and internationally.
Halflife
The first of the Whitechapel Gallery's 'Download' education projects, which include downloadable web-based project materials. This project involved yr 5 children working with Palm Pilots and two artists on a collaborative drawing exchange.
HomeBeats - Interactive Anti- Racism
An anti-racism educational CD-ROM from the Institute for Race Relations (Web resource no longer online.)
Informal education homepage
The Informal Education homepage with history,listing, links, theory and articles.
London Association of Art and Design Education
LAADE selection of online arts education projects.
LEAP
The London Education Arts Partnership is a company established by London Arts comprising 24 of the 32 London Boroughs and Middlesex University. It manages funding programmes, arts partnerships and profiles arts projects across the region.
Moving Here NEW
Online archive of photos and recordings documenting 200 years of immigration to Britain
Netdays Europe 1998
A European (and now world)-wide collection of online education projects, many of them collaborative, in all curriculum disciplines.
NSEAD
National Society for Education in Art and Design Web site, including the Allison Research Index.
On The Line
A Millenium communication project, linking and exploring the people and places along the zero meridian Đ Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Algeria, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom, with primary and secondary resources.
PapaInk NEW
The American Children's Art Archive with an extensive selection of children's artwork images online.
The Soundry
(Temporarily unavailable)Interactive educational web site about sound.
ULTRALAB
Learning technology research centre at Anglia Polytechnic University.

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Art & Culture Resources, Databases etc.

 
art in context
Online guide to artists, museums, galleries, collections, including a selection of images and exhibition reviews. International but with a strong US bias.
artnet NEW
A commercial art site with archives, news and an extensive international artists directory. Useful for research but with a commercial bias.
Axis - UK Visual Artists database
Website of the national database of contemporary visual artists and crafspeople in Britain. Funded by the Arts Councils of England, Scotland and Wales.
Black Cultural Studies Site Index
Online collection of Black cultural studies resources, organised by author (mainly African American and British)
Idea online
The International Directory of Electronic Arts, covering organisations, artists, journals etc. (English/French)
kunstnett norge :
Web directory for art and artists in Norway. (Norwegian)
Media Center, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Directory of Web sites in contemporary art : Artists / Movements / Médiatheque du Musée d'art contemporain : Répertoire de sites Web en art contemporain (English and French)
The Media Lounge
An online database of art-political-cultural-media activities in Europe, including hundreds of orginsations and an archive of project work.
Schomburg Center
Archive, exhibition and education centre for research in Black culture (part of New York Public Library.)
Universes in Universe: Worlds of Art
Web project, based in Berlin but working with international partners, to promote understanding of contemporary art practice and theory from Africa, Asia/Pacific and Latin America. Includes database, links, events listings and forum. (German & English)
Voice of the Shuttle: Cultural Studies Page
An extremely useful cultural/critical theory resource collection, including a section on cyberculture.
World Wide Art Resources
Huge searchable international art directory,including art news, artists' portfolios and discussion forums.

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Online Journals/Forums - Media, Arts & Culture

artthrob NEW
Online journal for contemporary art in South Africa
ArteFacto Revista de Arte y Kooltura
Online Art & Culture journal of contemporary Nicaraguan artists (Spanish only
Art in Latin America - LANIC
Filter site for Latin American Art, by country
Arts Wire: Online Communications for the Arts
News, networking and arts resource database run by the New York Foundation for the Arts
Crash Media
Independent media compiled from around the world (no longer active)
Doors of Perception
Annual forum for new media, science, design and education issues at The Netherlands Design Institute
Frame NEW
Journal of Culture and Technology published by TrAce the Online Writing Centre at Nottingham Trent University
Leonardo On-Line
The www-site for Leonardo, the International Society of Arts, Sciences and Technology.
Journal of Contemporary Art
Online interviews, discussions and exhibitions.
M e t a m u t e
Currently undergoing a radical transformation. Online journal and discussion space for Mute, exploring digital arts and theory.
nmp (network museum & mag project)
Online exhibition and magazine site, based in Tokyo.
ZoneZero
International journal (based in U.S.) of analogue & digital photography.

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Hypermedia - theory

altx.com
Artists site for contemporary digital arts and theory
Camerawork-W. Benjamin
Online version of and discussions around Walter Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' essay.
City of Bits
A digital companion to the 'analogue' book "City of Bits - Space, Place and the infobahn" by William J. Mitchell.
Eyebeam Atelier
A non-profit org. for the advancement of digital arts, through education programmes, lectures and online discussions.
HyperMedia Research Centre
Home page of the HRC at University of Westinster, London.
Illuminations
The Critical Theory Web site
X ArtFoundation
An online discussion forum and archive for critical discourse in art practice within the global communications network
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