Research

New Media



CRUMB

School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland, Ashburne House Ryhope Road Sunderland, SR2 7EF - Google Maps
prof. Beryl Graham - Content Editor
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Website: www.crumbweb.org

New media curators resource, listing seminars and events around the country, and interviews with professionals. Also downloadable resources such as: Technical Guide for Exhibiting New Media Art.
Listing ID: 298


[DAM] - Digital Art Museum

Website: www.dam.org

Digital Art Museum aims to become the world's leading online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art. It exhibits the work of leading artists in this field since 1956. [DAM] is an on-line museum with a comprehensive exhibition of Digital Art supported by a wide range of background information including biographies, articles, a bibliography and interviews. [DAM] also includes an Essays section with articles by artists and theorists specially selected to place the works in context (many of them by special arrangement with Leonardo journal). A History section lists key events and technologies in date order.
Listing ID: 316


ARiADA (Advanced Research in Aesthetics in the Digital Arts)

Electroacoustic Music Studios, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ - Google Maps
Website: www.ariada.uea.ac.uk

Funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), ARiADA is designed to co-ordinate the studio's research into the relationship between compositional strategies and aesthetics in electroacoustic music and other media. The project calls on the research expertise of visiting and contributing composers and artists in addition to that of the UEA studio research community. ARiADAtexts, the project's peer-reviewed online journal, collates the Studio's work and presents it in the context of other UK and international research material.
Listing ID: 317


BBCi

Website: www.bbc.co.uk/search/tryout/help.shtml

BBC co-ordinated search facility, available on the main page of the BBC website. Certain sites are individually recommended by teams of BBC researchers, and they claim the site has a more practical search record than most other engines.
Listing ID: 318


British Library National Sound Archive

96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7412 7440
Fax: 020 7412 7441
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Website: sounds.bl.uk

Holds over one million discs and 175,000 tape items, as well as a growing number of specialist videos. Anyone can search or browse the information on this site but for copyright reasons, only people in licensed UK higher and further education institutions, or in our reading rooms can play the recordings. Downloading is available in licensed institutions.
Listing ID: 319


Database of Virtual Art

Website: www.virtualart.at

The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research-oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions and allows individuals to post material themselves. Compiling video documentation, technical data, interfaces, displays, and literature offers a unique answer to the needs of the field. All works can be linked with exhibiting institutions, events and bibliographical references.
Listing ID: 320


Dog Pile

Website: www.dogpile.com

Meta search engine - which means this one site searches most (if not all) of the internet's search engines.
Listing ID: 322


Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) Online Catalogue

Website: www.eai.org/eai/

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is a leading resource for artists' video and interactive media. EAI's core program is the international distribution of a major collection of new and historical media works by artists. The Online Catalogue is a comprehensive resource on the 175 artists and 3,000 works in the EAI collection. The searchable database includes artists' biographies, tape descriptions, QuickTime excerpts, resource materials, and online ordering.
Listing ID: 323


MOCA: Museum of Computer Art

Website: moca.virtual.museum

Self-styled as one of the most heavily trafficked, comprehensive, frequently updated and respected computer art museums on the Web, this makes up for in content what it lacks in modesty. Established in 1994 to promote computer art in its myriad forms, this fascinating site contains current exhibitions and archives of the work of leading artists in the field.
Listing ID: 324


Sonic Arts Research Archive

University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ UK - Google Maps
Matt Rogalsky, Research Associate, Electroacoustic Music Studios
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Website: www.sara.uea.ac.uk

The Sonic Arts Research Archive is an online reference to composers and artists working with new technology and sound. It offers access to a wide cross-section of the UK Sonic Arts Network's collection of compositions and published texts and access to muc
Listing ID: 325


SONUS

Website: www.sonus.ca

SONUS will be the world's largest online listening library of electroacoustics. For the list of electroacoustic genres currently supported by SONUS, please see the website. Anyone producing electroacoustics can send their work in to be included on the database, from anywhere in the world.
Listing ID: 326


Soundtoys

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Website: www.soundtoys.net

The soundtoys.net website content has been tagged with associated words in a database which means you can now browse the entire soundtoys collection thematically. Soundtoys.net is an artwork by Stanza. The aim of the project is to allow open access of the artworks that exist within the site, while at the same time treating these artworks as 'assets', as data, for re-experiencing the internet. Soundtoys.net now exists so others can take live feeds and link directly to the works.
Listing ID: 327


The Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA)

Woburn Square, London - Google Maps
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Website: www.scemfa.org

Opened in 1995 and has provided the opportunity to focus on research into Electronic Media and Fine Art, contributing to debate on a national and international level. SCEMFA has been at the foreground of artists' streaming media in the UK, has close links with other areas in UCL including Computer Science and archives a range of past and present student, staff and research projects online. Electronic Media can be studied at the Slade (BA, MA, MFA, MPhil, and Phd) as part of the Slade's Fine Art Media Department.
Listing ID: 328


inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts)

Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7729 9616
Tel: 020 7749 1255
Fax: 020 7729 9509
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Website: www.iniva.org
Website: www.iniva.org/library/index

A visual arts organisation with a special interest in digital technologies, commissioning site specific artworks and developing international collaborations that promote the work of artists from different cultural backgrounds. inIVA commissions artists, produces exhibitions and publications, carries out education projects, and presents a broad range of public debates and events in a variety of contexts. inIVA's reference library is a unique and valuable resource for academics, artists and writers and is one of the leading UK libraries in its field. The library is open to the public by appointment only. DARE is an online education resource for contemporary international visual arts being developed through the Digital Arts Education Research initiative, over three years from 1998 - 2001. Much of the research was undertaken using inIVA resources.
Listing ID: 2104


Folly

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Website: www.folly.co.uk

Folly is a leading digital arts organisation. Working in Lancashire, Cumbria and online, folly is committed to enabling new audiences to explore art through technology. They also provide a consultancy service specialising in free and open-source software.
Listing ID: 2400


Open Magazine

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Website: www.openmagazine.co.uk

An online magazine bridging the high arts with the best of popular culture, looking at the classics and established with fresh eyes and championing new talent; reporting on the arts democratically and showing them as stylish, relevant and exciting.
Listing ID: 3516