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Miscellaneous

This section contains several links and sites providing interesting information on Internet art.

19.04.2005 · Research Group on the Global Future

Iconic-Turn – The new picture of the world:
Images are more present than ever. Photography, mass media and computer technology have eminently increased the impact of images on culture, society and science. This increased impact of images is what the Iconic Turn lecture series is about.

New York Arts Magazine:
The Homepage of the famous magazine from New York. It offers a large variety of articles and links all around the arts.

Arts Journal – The Daily Digest of Arts, Culture & Ideas:   
ArtsJournal is a weekday digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the      English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal combs through more than 200 English-   language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture. 
 
Imdb – The Internet Movie DataBase:   
The biggest information source for all kinds of movies on the web.

A site containing a good selection of art links. Search according to disciplines possible.

Links to films in and about the Internet, trailers of old films available as well as theoretical texts on films

A host for digital art and multimedia. There are streams, images and art pieces available online. Also possible: sending art cards of art works. Lots of material.

The mirrorshades postmodern archive. This forum on the WELL is currently tracking the fields of art, design, crime, virtual war, rip-off cybercreeps, dead media, anarchy, spooks, sickening outrages and cheering developments. As the WELL is run by Internet pioneers who are concerned with the persistence of the openness of the medium, there is a good amount of talk on this topic on this site. It provides many links to cyberpunk and digerati sites.

Ten films of the Urban Desire Collective. This group used to do a netzine until 1996, but now concentrates on filmmaking.

One of the oldest and best pages for online art. It was founded as and still is a forum for new media artists, providing discussion and information exchange opportunities. This means lots of information and theoretical input for the interested layman, too. In addition, this site contains audio and video Internet art and, via the member pages, one can access lots of new media art: videos, stills and Internet art past and present.

Nettime offers little works of art, but a superb mailing and info-list on new media art and a variety of links.

Another good source of first hand Internet art, contains an extensive archive, interviews with artist and articles on art topics.

This site calls itself "The First Global Internet Museum”. There, "new media art” is categorized as either web art, meaning art that is shown only on the net and only works on the net, no matter where it is produced, or digital art, meaning art that is produced under utilization of digital technologies.

Website dedicated to "non-commercial” art, communication and web design art, was moved to different hosts, but its original content still exists and is accessible via this address.

A site that deals with art and its interference with society. There are many links to new media exhibits (on- and offline), an interactive gallery to which people can contribute their own art works, and links to other art resources of new media, traditional and literature arts on the net.

Lastplace calls itself "the truly virtual web art museum”. It offers access to many web art museums, as well as to material on the theory of art and its reflections in the humanities like psychology and philosophy.

Example of political art concerning itself with biotech and its possible eugenic future. A fake site, which maintains to be a real scientific site that offers advice to people to plan the characteristics of their off-spring or how to clone themselves.

Under this address one can find over a hundred photographs of decaying buildings of Detroit, documenting their deterioration. Amongst them there are a lot of industrial age monuments, like Ford’s tin lizzy plant.

Become a composer and musician.

"The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” Walter Benjamin’s essay concerning the impact of then modern technologies on art.