Research

Visual Cultures



Art and Life in Africa

Website: www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html

Re-contextualization of African art and contemporary culture
Listing ID: 329


Arts Research Digest

Website: www.arts-research-digest.com

Arts Research Digest provides a unique overview of recent and current research in the arts, media and cultural sectors around the world. It offers a vital information resource for arts managers, arts practitioners, arts organisations, policy makers, academics, consultants, researchers and funders. Each issue summarises a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research produced and published by academics, arts funding and development agencies, government departments, higher education institutions, local authorities and others. It is published three times a year - in spring, summer and autumn - and is available by subscription only. Subscribers also receive free access to the Digest online.
Listing ID: 331


Autograph ABP

4th floor, Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7729 9200
Fax: 020 7739 8748
Email:
Website: www.autograph-abp.co.uk

Autograph ABP is an international photographic arts agency that addresses issues of cultural identity and human rights. Their primary role is to develop, exhibit and publish the work of photographers and artists from culturally diverse backgrounds and to act as an advocate for their inclusion in all mainstream areas of exhibition, publishing, training, education and commerce.
Listing ID: 332


Black Cultural Studies

Website: www.blackculturalstudies.org

Black popular culture, critical race theory and film theory featured with biographical and bibliographical information. Also includes images, interviews and links to other sites.
Listing ID: 333


Black History Month

Website: www.london.gov.uk/mayor/bhm/
Website: www.black-history-month.co.uk
Website: www.blackhistorymonthuk.co.uk

Annual month-long event celebrating African and Caribbean histories through a contemporary cultural programme.
Listing ID: 334


Arts of China Consortium

Website: www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/index.html
Listing ID: 336


Corporation of London Archives

Website: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

Information about the City's archives which form an almost complete picture of virtually every aspect of London life.
Listing ID: 337


CPANDA (Cultural Policy and the Arts, National Data Archive)

Website: www.cpanda.org

Interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S., available for research and statistical analysis, with data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture.
Listing ID: 338


Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind

Website: artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict

This dictionary is intended as a free resource for all those interested in the philosophy of mind. The dictionary has a policy of blind peer review for all submissions to the dictionary. Advisory, editorial and review boards have been established.
Listing ID: 339


Disability History Museum

Website: www.disabilitymuseum.org

Online searchable historical and social document describing and promoting the historical experience of people with disabilities. The Museum aims to do this by recovering, chronicling and interpreting their stories. The site includes a massive archive of images of people with disabilities and their treatment. The Disability History Museum's Library is a digital archive that only exists online. It contains digital versions of images, texts, and other artefacts related to disability history that have been gathered from libraries and private collections across the country, and covers the period from c18th century to the present day.
Listing ID: 340


Eserver

Website: eserver.org

The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish works as open archives, available free of charge to readers. It attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities. Now based at Iowa State University, their site offers 45 collections on such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. In addition to short and longer written works, they publish hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings.
Listing ID: 341


FeMiNa

Website: www.femina.cybergrrl.com

FeMiNa was created in September 1995 to provide women with a comprehensive, searchable directory of links to female friendly sites and information on the World Wide Web.
Listing ID: 342


Gender, Ethnicity & Race in Media

Website: www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia

US academic site.
Listing ID: 343


Institute of Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (ICIA)

ICIA, University of Bath, 1 East 2.1, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY - Google Maps
Tel: 01225 386 777
Email:
Website: www.bath.ac.uk/icia/home/index.php

Based in the University of Bath, ICIA presents a mix of performances, exhibitions, talks, workshops and classes open to the general public alongside their student community. ICIA is an academic research centre commissioning new arts projects regionally and nationally, and training for artists, arts professionals, academics and educators with an emphasis on interdisciplinary practice.
Listing ID: 344


Limited Language

Website: www.limitedlanguage.org

Limited Language is a brand which uses the web as a platform for generating writing about visual communication. The idea of the brand in this context is a deliberate conceit - to explore how words, like images, are commodities.
Listing ID: 345


Nodeworks Encyclopaedia

Website: pedia.nodeworks.com

Thousands of Wiki definitions and texts, available under the GNU license agreement.
Listing ID: 346


Questia

Website: www.questia.com

Online library of books, journals, magazines, newspapers and an encyclopaedia. Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. To complement the library, Questia offers a range of search, note-taking, and writing tools for a small monthly fee. These tools help students locate the most relevant information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically.
Listing ID: 347


Resource Centre for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS)

Website: www.com.washington.edu/rccs/

The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Collaborative in nature, the RCCS seeks to support and establish ongoing conversations about this emerging field and showcase works online.
Listing ID: 348


SALIDAA (the South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive)

Paola Marchionni, Project Director
Email:
Website: www.salidaa.org.uk

SALIDAA's digital archive is a free online resource featuring collections of South Asian literature, art, theatre, dance and music by British based artists and organisations.
Listing ID: 349


Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

Website: plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

Launched September 1995 as a dynamic reference work - so each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field and is responsive to new research. You can cite fixed editions which are made on a quarterly basis and stored in the Archives. The Abridged Table of Contents lists entries that are assigned and/or published (linked above). The Unabridged Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.
Listing ID: 351


The File Room

Svetlana Mintcheva
Tel: 00 1 212 807 6222 ext. 23
Email:
Website: www.thefileroom.org

The File Room, a web-based interactive archive of censorship cases, is open to submissions by organisations and individuals locally, nationally, and internationally. Now run by the US-based National Coalition Against Censorship, The File Room already cont
Listing ID: 352


The Women's Library

London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7320 2222
Fax: 020 7320 2333
Email:
Website: www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk

The Women's Library is a new cultural centre, housing the most extensive collection of women's history in the UK. As well as the Reading Room there is a lively exhibition and events programme, and the Wash Houses Café.
Listing ID: 353


theory.org.uk

Website: www.theory.org.uk

Established in 1998, Theory.org.uk was originally a set of original online resources about theories in the areas of media, gender and identity. Information-sharing has since then become more collective - superseded by, amongst others, Wikipedia. However Theory.org.uk still offers a range of unique resources and features, including information and links on exploring new creative methods for understanding audiences, media, gender and identityand even Lego sets.
Listing ID: 354


Tibetan Art, Theatre & Music

Website: web.archive.org/web/*/http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/anu/tib-art.html

The Online Guide to Tibetan Art, Theatre and Music, was active during the period 1995 - 2002. This Guide has been closed down but an archival copy of it is now permanently stored at the address above.
Listing ID: 355


UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation)

Website: portal.unesco.org

International organisation seeking to safeguard the world's cultural heritage. Includes projects to protect intangible heritage (languages, ritual, and living human treasures) as well as tangible heritage, the World Heritage Centre, as well as the arts and creativity.
Listing ID: 356


Voice of the shuttle: cultural studies page

Website: vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2709

Theorists, media theory, post-colonial studies and technology theory.
Listing ID: 357


Afterall

Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, 107 - 109 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0DU - Google Maps
California Institute of the Arts, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, California 91355-2397, USA
Tel: 020 7514 8173
Tel: 00 1 661 253 7722
Fax: 020 7514 7166
Fax: 00 1 661 253 7738
Email:
Email:
Website: www.afterall.org

Afterall Publishing is a research and publishing organisation based at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London. Their core publication, Afterall - a journal of art, context and enquiry - is co-published by Central Saint Martins & California Institute of the Arts through offices in London and Los Angeles. Each issue of Afterall brings together five international artists whose work seems particularly pertinent to the wider cultural debates of the moment. This work is considered through substantial new texts commissioned from writers of diverse backgrounds, and accompanied by high quality colour reproductions. In addition two longer essays are commissioned for each issue that seek to explore the broader themes suggested by the work, and provide a frame of reference from which to consider it.
Listing ID: 739


united net-works.org

Stockholm, Sweden - Google Maps
Tel: 00 46 73 698 3130
Email:
Website: www.unitednet-works.org

Grown out of activities previously a part of The Art Emergency Room, an artist-run exhibition & project space in Stockholm, united net-works.org is an agency for artists, curators & cultural producers that seeks to support opportunities, collaboration and exchange within contemporary art. Run by Sofie Sweger (former co-director of The Art Emergency Room) in collaboration with Lena Malm (artist) and Marianne Hultman (curator), united net-works have a commitment to researching, producing, and initiating exhibitions, meetings and projects that seek to investigate new forms of collaboration and communication in the visual arts. Their holdings include The Art Bank, a large archive of documentation of Nordic and International contemporary artists work, and they maintain links with an international network of independent arts organisations
Listing ID: 1312


Audio Arts

Website: www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/audioarts

The innovative audio cassette-magazine Audio Arts was established by Bill Furlong in 1973. Since then Audio Arts has grown to become the worldâ€Ts most comprehensive and coherently focused sound archive of artistsâ€T voices as well as sound art. Four hours of recorded clips can be accessed at Tate online.
Listing ID: 3119