Links and bibliography

Links

• Amaze Culture Lab

  Cultural laboratory that works for the dissemination and knowledge of contemporary cultures. It is interested in the visual arts of oriental cultures and the new communication media.

• Ars Electronica Center

  Platform for art and digital culture. Since 1979 it has been organising the Ars Electronica festival and it awards the Ars Electronica prize.

• Art Futura
• Artists’ Project Earth

  Artists' Project Earth aims to help create a better world by bringing the power of music and other arts to 21st century challenges. It will support appropriate action and facilitate awareness-raising and education with regard to environmental disasters, climate change and related challenges, assisting in the implementation of sustainable development.

• Artnodes

  A virtual magazine that reflects on the intersections or convergences between art, science and technology from a formal, historical and conceptual point of view.

• Banksy

  Artivist with a broad repertoire of projects of intervention in the public space.

• Burning Man Festival

  Annual art festival involving the construction of a temporary community based on radical self-expression. It is held in the Nevada Desert.

• Critical Art Ensemble

  E-book: Molecular Invasion

• Critical Art Ensemble

  Collective of five artists whose projects combine research, social criticism, radical politics,

• Electrohype

  A non-profit organisation that promotes and sponsors computer art in Sweden and other Nordic countries. Its main aim is to offer support for this art in Scandinavia and to establish bases for its growth.

• Eólica

  Eólica is a collective and multi-artistic celebration, a call for consciousness-based participation. A musical-cultural festival and unique in its style, it is exclusively powered by natural forms of energy, while recycling residues and combining workshops, exhibitions, talks, screenings, tours and excursions with performances, theatre, dance, circus, shows, multimedia and a list of more than 40 artists from all over the world performing on four stages.

• European Media Art Festival

  One of the world’s most important multimedia art forums.

• Graffiti Research Lab

  They research the future of urban art, developing accessible and open source formulas to introduce tools and languages originating from digital culture into the street space. They belong to Eyebeam’s Openlab. Also check http://research.eyebeam.org/

• Hamaca
• iCrea
• Labforculture

  Online tool for cultural practitioners, operators and managers, as well as artists and arts organisations, cultural researchers, research bodies, policy makers and funders in arts and culture.

• Lev Manovich

  Artist and one of the most prominent New Media theorists, he is also a teacher of Visual Arts. He has written "The Language of New Media".

• MIT Media Lab

  A laboratory that connects different disciplines such as cognition, electronic music, graphic design, video and holography, as well as work in computing and human-machine interfaces. It focuses on the study, invention and creative use of digital technologies and the exploration of new frontiers between art and science.

• Processing

  Java-based programming language for multimedia creation designed to facilitate life for artists and designers. Generated based on John Maeda’s Design by Numbers by one of his students, Ben Fry. With Processing it is much easier to work directly with typography, sound, etc.

• Public Matters

  Public Matters is committed to developing a new generation of informed and engaged community leaders: innovative thinkers and problem solvers with a deep awareness and appreciation of their neighbourhoods. We believe that art and new media have a tremendous capacity to portray community life and serve as a connective force across race, class and generations.

• Rhizome

  An organisation that has created a virtual platform online for the worldwide artistic community that works with new technologies. Its programmes have been created to support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses the new technologies.

• Streetsy

  Website that aims to provide exhaustive daily documentation of street art in New York. They are affiliated to the Wooster Collective, which also specialises in compiling information about urban art.

• Stretcher

  An on-line art review of the San Francisco-based collective of artists and art critics of the same name.

• The Arts Catalyst

  An organisation that establishes connections between art and science through strategic projects.

• The Planetary Collegium

  An organisation devoted to researching the space between art, technology and science to reach new forms of cultural expression for the new millennium.

• Transmediale

  A festival held every year in Berlin that reflects advances in digital creation.

• Viper

  A forum for innovation and creativity. It has become one of the most important international festivals devoted to promoting and disseminating high quality works and projects.

• Wooster

  Collective that specialises in compiling information about urban art.

• YPsite
• ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie

  ZKM is a cultural institution that focuses its interest on the fast development of information, technology and the changes of social structures.