Organisations, magazines & resources
Organisations, institutions, blogs, webzines, e-zines, portals etc...
SAW Video Media Art Centre
Launched in 2004 as an initiative of SAW Video, the Mediatheque is an ever-expanding public video archive that currently houses more than 300 Canadian independent films and videos online. It features 30 years' of video works from SAW Video members as well as videos and films from artists in Ottawa-Gatineau and across Canada. In all, the works of more than 100 Canadian artists are included. Mediatheque artists are emerging, mid-career or established film and video makers. The archive contains complete short and feature-length productions in all genres, including drama, documentary, animation and video art. SAW Video is proud to provide this important repository of Canadian films and videos to its members, to curators and the general public.
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TOPLAP - Temporary Organisation for the Pragmatics of Live Algorithm Programming
For a long time computer scientists have been erasing time from programming, and we're now putting it back in.
For a long time computer musicians have been trying to hide the computation in their music, and we're celebrating it.
Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video: live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. TOPLAP exists to promote it.
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Minor Compostions
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life.
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Videoart.net
based in New York City, Videoart.net serves as an international network for video art and experimental films. As a video-sharing website and online community Videoart.net has helped to democratize the relationship between artists, curators, institutions, and the public worldwide. Videoart.net attracts both art and film industry professionals by merging the avant-garde with art and film establishments. An international network with a dynamic online community, Videoart.net has positioned itself as one of the most popular video art and experimental film websites in the world
Mission:
To establish an international hub of video artists, filmmakers and audiences.
To expand video arts into public spaces accessible to a wider audience.
To create an online community of filmmakers and artists.
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Toplab - Temporary Organisation for the Pragmatics of Live Algorithm Programming
Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video: live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. TOPLAP exists to promote it.
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CTHEORY: THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE VOL 33, NO 1-2
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CODE DRIFT
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Preface
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Code Drift
~Arthur & Marilouise Kroker~
What is the fate of the regime of computation? A global techno-culture inscribed by the terrorism of the code or an emergent age of networked individualism driven onwards by the ecstatic visions of augmented reality, mobility, and connectivity?
When the regime of computation suddenly slams into the real world of globalization, when code is forced to tangle with the always messy world of blown away referential values -- the real world of gender trouble, stormy challenges to the big signifiers of race, class and ethnicity -- we finally know that we are living in the beginning days of something radically new, namely a culture of code drift. Read more »
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Overview of network art projects
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Sonus
SONUS is an online listening library (jukebox) of electroacoustic works, created and managed by the CEC for the benefit of the greater Electroacoustic / Computer Music / Sound Art community.
The CEC created SONUS to make electroacoustic pieces easily accessible to audiences everywhere. SONUS is a valuable tool for composers to promote their work, and a fascinating resource for listeners, with over 1800 works in a wide variety of aesthetics already in the catalogue.
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Arse Elektronica
Sexuality, Genetics, Biotech, Wetware, Body mods.
Scottish SF author Iain Banks created a fictitious group-civilisation called "Culture" in his eponymous narrative. The vast majority of humanoid people in the "Culture" are born with greatly altered glands housed within their central nervous systems, who secrete - on command - mood- and sensory-appreciation-altering compounds into the person's bloodstream. Additionally many inhabitants have subtly altered reproductive organs - and control over the associated nerves - to enhance sexual pleasure. Ovulation is at will in the female, and a fetus up to a certain stage may be re-absorbed, aborted, or held at a static point in its development; again, as willed. Also, a viral change from one sex into the other, is possible. And there is a convention that each person should give birth to one child in their lives. It may sound strange, but Banks states that a society in which it is so easy to change sex will rapidly find out if it is treating one gender better than the other. Pressure for change within society would presumably build up until some form of sexual equality and hence numerical parity will be established.
Does this set-up sound too futuristic? Too utopian? Too bizarre?
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Everyday Listening: sonic inspiration
Everyday Listening: sonic inspiration collects inspiring and remarkable sound art and creative sound design projects, installations, reviews of urban soundscapes, places, contemporary or experimental, mostly electronic music. You might also read about new ways of using and distributing music and sound.
The term Everyday Listening is used to describe the way we use sound to find our way in our everyday life. There's an article by Buxton, Gaver & Bly giving a very clear description of this phenomenon:
"Everyday listening is a matter of listening to the attributes of events in the world - the speed of a passing automobile, the force of a slammed door, whether a person is walking up or downstairs."
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Soundart Radio
A space to listen, play and experiment
Soundart Radio 102.5 FM is a community radio station for the Dartington and Totnes area of South Devon. We are an arts radio station providing space on the airwaves to listen, play and experiment with sound. Our programmes are made by volunteers who thrive in an atmosphere of trust and creative freedom. All kinds of people visit, talk, play music and present radio shows. We leave the studio door open and the sounds of passing birds, conversations and steam trains filter into our broadcasts.
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