Students of Multimedia: Resources
Compiled by Prof Flanagan and the Design Direction Course

Articles about Digital Art
| Articles about Cyberculture and Gaming | Art and Design Links  | Artist Groups| Writing Artist Statements | Grants and Funding Opportunities | Human Computer Interaction Links |Professional Organizations | Show Opportunities |Technical Info | Usability Info | Web Art | Links to New Media Programs / phd programs | Journals relating to new media


articles about digital art

Steve Wilson's Digital Art Resource Center
Art Journal Digital Art Articles
What is software art? How can "software" be generally defined?
Great Moments in Multimedia History
Eadweard Muybridge info
Duchamp Nude Descending a staircase
Balla's Dog image
Kaprow and Happenings
More About Happenings!
Look out for Bad Industrial Designs



articles and Resources about cyberculture/computer gaming
Resource center for cyberculture studies
Game Culture - computer game culture

art & design
Art vs Design & Code
Usability designers vs graphic designers
Web Art - Design and Techniques - overview from about.com


artist groups

HotWired Live Art 1

More Hot Wired Live Art:
http://chaos.wit.no/nelle/hwla/
http://www.notam.uio.no/motherboard/momentum/
MIT Media Lab Research sites

 


artist statements!
http://www.nitaleland.com/articles/statement.htm
http://www.artadvice.com/advice/article12.pdf
http://www.artistresource.org/forums/forum6/39_2.htm

http://www.artists.ca/FCA-7c1.html
http://www.artbusiness.com/statement.html


grants and funding opportunities
grants and funding opportunities compiled by 2001 Design Direction Class:
Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund for Independent Video Grants

Grants are made to individuals and collectives involved in video production. The fund seeks work that aims to test the limits of technology; extend the language of personal expression; question aesthetic conventions; explore complex issues of gender, sexuality, and cultural identity; and/or challenge the prevailing social system.  The fund encourages projects that make inventive use of newly evolving and/or small-format media technologies with low budgets of $6000 or less.

Requirements:  The project's final form must be videotape.  Grants must be applied to production and post production costs only, and projects must be completed within 12 months of receiving the award.

Amount of Grant:  $1000 - $3000

Date application is due:  March 14th.

Address:  Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund, PO Box 3514, Church St Station, New York, NY 10007

Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship

Asian Cultural Council Fellowship Grants

Artists Workspace Fellowship

 

Opportunity Resources and Databases:

 

Film Grants for Individuals

Art Grants for Individuals

Art Grants Listing

Foundation Grants to Individuals Database CD-ROM

Independent Film Grants

ArtBreak Grant Listings

MoneyForArt: A Grant Service for Artists

Upcoming Competitions and Calls for Art

Current and Upcoming Artist Opportunities

Art Income: Income and Opportunities for Artists

Listing of current Funding, Auditions, Competitions, and Exhibitions

Funding Resources for Seattle Artists (Some may apply to Oregonians)

WWAR: Art Grants

Grant Resources for Artists

Visual Art Opportunities

Art Deadlines List



human computer interaction
HCI Bibliography & Resources
A brief history of Human Computer Interaction
HCI REsources on the Net

 

 

Professional Organizations:

American Institute of Graphic Artists

AIGA - Portland Chapter

American Center for Design

Pacific Printing and Imaging

Graphic Artist's Guild

Asssociation of Graphic Communication

Corporate Design Foundation

Design Management Institute

New York New Media Association


Show Opportunities, Galleries, Contests
online gallery & contest links

f i l m

IFilm

Atom Films

Ignome

Exploding Cinema








3 d

Digital Art Valley Competition

f i n e  a r t s
d i g i t a l  i m a g i n g :  s t i l l s
f l a s h  /  w e b  d e s i g n
m i s c e l l a n e o u s

Links: Technical
Actionscript.org - maybe the best flash souce!
Flash Support Center at Macromedia - getting started with actionscript
Flashkit.com
Macromedia Support Pages
, Flash
Macromedia Support Pages, Director
Beginner's HTML page
Embedding sound in HTML

 

usability
Multimedia and Usability Principles
User Testing Techniques
Paper Prototyping
UIE Reports: Best Practices Series- using flash
User testing questions
excellent site for user testing questions
Usability at Microsoft - see their publications page for papers
The Usable Web - 1427 links about usability on the web
Macromedia Flash and Usability
Towards Usability Evaluation of Multimedia Applications
User Friendly Web Sites

 

WebArt
Walker Art Center - Web Art show, beyond interface
My Boyfriend Came Back from the War
http://www.yugop.com
http://www.turbulence.org/ many web art pieces on front and in archive
http://www.rhizome.org/fresh/ organization promoting net talk and net art
cute web art pieces
Whitney Museum Biennial featuring internet art
Adaweb at the walker art center
Ars Electronica
@art
Artnetweb
Artpool
Artswire
ASCI
Leonardo Electronic Almanac
Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal
Walker Art Center, Gallery 9
Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie <ZKM>
http://www.jump-tomorrow.com
http://www.ward7.co.uk
http://www.yugop.com
http://www.tomato.co.uk
http://www.cut-and-paste.com
http://www.absurd.org
http://www.lzhstudio.com
http://www.mano1.com
http://www.mumbleboy.com
http://www.presstube.com
http://www.standardmotion.com
http://www.thevoid.co.uk
http://teragroup.nitrofx.com
http://www.practicedesign.co.uk
http://www.theremediproject.com
http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com
http://www.sinnzeug.de
http://www.dform1shiftfunc.net
http://www.lo9ic.com
http://www.threeoh.com
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/anemone/applet/
http://www.shift.jp.org
http://www.iizon.com
http://www.rayoflight.net
http://www.wackedusa.com
http://www.matinee.co.uk
http://www.borgstrom.com
http://www.titoonic.dk
http://www.circlemakers.org http://mousecontrol.com/members/earls/cats.asp
http://www.projekt-schnittstelle.com/db.php
http://www.designers-network.com

 

 

Programs in Digital / Conceptual / Experimental Media and the Cultural Study of New Media

Film and Communication Studies Programs in Canada / Programmes de cinéma et communication au Canada

University of California at San Diego Visual Arts

San Francisco State University Conceptual Information Arts (CIA) Program

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Art & Technology Studies

Georgia tech School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center

Carnegie Mellon Computer, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry

the Media Lab

University of Iowa Department of Cinema & Comparative Literature

PhD Programs in New Media

MA and PhD programs at the Centre for Animation & Interactive Media, RMIT

One can do a PhD in New Media Studies at the RTF Department at the University of TX at Austin

School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies (gu.au.edu)

----------please email if you know of interesting PhD programs which combine theory and practice using new technology! I'd appreciate it!

 


Journal Resources For Graduate Students

Below is a list of some cultural studies, media studies, and feminist refereed journals.

Limina - A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/HistoryWWW/limina/

Angelak
i: journal of theoretical humanities
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/frameloader.html?http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0969725x.html

Australian Journal of Cultural Studies

Topia - journal of canadian cultural studies

Cultural Values - Journal dedicated to the transdisciplinary analysis of culture and its changing values.
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=1362-5179

Critical Arts - A Journal for Cultural Studies from South Africa
http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/critarts/index.htm

Women & Performance:
A Journal of Feminist Theory
http://www.echonyc.com/~women/

Culture Machine: The Electronic Journal
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/

European Journal of Cultural Studies
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/frame.html?http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0213.html

International Journal of Cultural Studies
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/frame.html?http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0214.html

M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture
http://www.api-network.com/mc/

Cultronix An electronic journal of contemporary cultural studies
http://eserver.org/cultronix/

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
http://iupjournals.org/differences/

hypatia
- A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
http://iupjournals.org/hypatia/

Postmodern Culture - An electronic journal of interdisciplinary criticism
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html

Critical Inquiry - contemporary cultural issues
http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/

enculturation - A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture
http://www.uta.edu/huma/enculturation/

Public Culture - Journal of Transnational Cultural Studies
http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-pub-cult/

The Journal of Cultural Studies
http://www.unc.edu/depts/cultstud/journal/

 

General Resources : Pop Culture, Media Study, Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies Centreal
http://www.culturalstudies.net/index.html

Popcultures.com
http://www.popcultures.com/

Renate Wickens' Sites in Cultural Studies from York U
http://www.finearts.yorku.ca/rwickens/CSsites.html

Voice of the Shuttle - Web Pages for Humanities Research (huge)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Blackwell Publisher's Cultural Studies Resources

Hypertext, Cybernetics, Cyborgs and Virtual Realities
- Resource links at the University of Iowa

Gender & Race in Media: Cyberspace
- Resource links at the University of Iowa

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
- Resources at the University of Maryland

International Gender, Science and Technology
- Women in Global Science and Technology, Ontario Orgnaization

PopCultures.com.
- Cultural Studies Center

Frieze
- Contemporary Arts and Culture

The Brain.com
- Java based browsing in relationships

Imaginary Realities
- includes the following texts
The Mudder's New Clothes - Rebecca Handcock
Gender and the Mud - Marcie Kligman
Embarassing Mischannels - John Hopson
Limited Advancement - Derek Harding
A Rape in Cyberspace - Julian Dibbell
Languages in Muds - David Bennett