DIRECTORIES - A Representative Listing with Periodic Corrections and Additions.
Updated for March 2008 - In process of review for September 2008
NOTE: ** Indicates a year 2008 addition to the list
Selections will be featured for brief periods.
Media Lab MIT [Research Projects] . . . .
What is Electronic Ink?
- "These microcapsules are suspended in a liquid "carrier medium" allowing them to be printed using existing screen printing processes onto virtually any surface, including glass, plastic, fabric and even paper. Ultimately electronic ink will permit most any surface to become a display, bringing information out of the confines of traditional devices and into the world around us" . . . .
Smart Architectural Surfaces - This project examines the creation of modular computational elements which can be used to build smart rooms, linked meeting rooms, and other sensor- and display-equipped intelligent spaces. These units are intended to tile the walls of a room, and act as a scalable, self-organizing system" . . . .
Sage -"We envision situation-rooms and research laboratories in which all the walls are made from seamless ultra-high-resolution displays fed by data streamed over ultra-high-speed networks from distantly located visualization, storage servers, and high-definition video cameras" . . . .
$100 Laptop
- "A technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children . . . . among other things, the brightest light source in the home (in some areas of the world)". . . .
Widgetbox - "Widgetbox is a site begun in September that collects widgets, spotlighting the newest and most popular ones; it offers more than 500 widgets . . . . Ed Anuff, a co-founder of Widgetbox.com, divides widgets into three categories. "One is self-expression widgets, like photo galleries, games or YouTube videos that you like," he said. The second category includes widgets that generate revenue for a blogger, like a box that displays auctions from a particular eBay category, or a blogger's favorite DVDs from Amazon.com. The third category, Mr. Anuff said, encompasses "site-enhancement widgets, like discussion forums, news feeds or a guest book, which provide better utility for your Web site" . . . . "
Alternate Physical Plants in Second Life - "Is there a Future for Old Fashioned Museums? . . . . the Newseum is already at the cutting edge of museum change." (Washington Post) - It is valuable to consider the impact and range of such options developed for digital interaction.
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iChing . Poetry . Engine . . . .
So close, so foreign, so own, so distant (Leonor Solis Rojas) - " I worked and lived in a small town of the Tehuacan-Ciucatlan valley, I looked at it so closely that I don't want to look at it just by myself anymore" . . . .
A Curious Herbal - "Elizabeth Blackwell's 'A Curious Herbal' is notable both for its beautiful illustrations and for the unusual cirucumstances of it creation" . . . .
Invisible Exports (Jake Tilson) - Click on the images . . . .
Impressed by Light - "The first exhibition to highlight British photographs made from paper negatives . . . In this Web feature, viewers may browse through a gallery of images, enlarge them to fill the screen, and reverse virtual paper negatives into positives." - (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC)
Visual Thesaurus
http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus
30-Second Bunnies Theatre
http://www.angryalien.com
16 Objects, Ready or Not - (Michael Craig-Martin - Museum of Modern Art, NYC)
http://www.moma.org/onlineprojects/mcm
So Close, so foreign, so own, so distant
http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/solis/index.html
the cooker [Jake Tilson's site]
http://www.thecooker.com
Software Structures . . . . "The catalyst for this project is the work of Sol LeWitt, specifically his wall drawings. I had a simple question: "Is the history of conceptual art relevant to the idea of software as art?" I began to answer the question by implementing three of Lewitt's drawings in software and then making modifications.
. . . . Twenty-six pieces of software derived from these structures were written to isolate different components of software structures including interpretation, material, and process. For each, you may view the software, source code, and comments." (Casey Reas, 3 June 2004)
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/softwarestructures
** Los Angeles Center for Digital Art - "Dedicated to the propagation of all forms of digital art, supporting local, international, emerging and established artists in our gallery. We have an ongoing schedule of exhibits and competitions, and produce editions of wide format archival prints."
http://www.lacda.com
01 01 01 Art.In.Technological.Times - "Over the past decade, the world of contemporary art has experienced the beginnings of a tectonic shift: digital technology has arrived as a component of everyday life and contemporary art on a global scale. Artists are adopting new technologies in the studio, deploying them in the gallery, inhabiting them through the internet, and making artwork that reflects our tecnology-saturated society in a stunning range of ways. Museums struggle to keep up, as audiences, too, are changed by the prersence of technology in their lives. Distances shrink under the pressure of the internet, cell phones, and e-mail. Attention spans flit nervously from message to message, channel to chaneel, and site to site. Neither art, nor those who make it, show it, and look at it can ever be the same again. This situation is the subject of 010101 Art in Technological times . . . . For 010101, SFMOMA has commissioned five artists to create new works for the World Wide Web. While diverse in form, the artists' works have all been designed to exist within the virtual space of the Internet, a space where code, timing, sequence, and new forms of interactive movement become fundamental components of aesthetic experience. These works exist in a social dimension that is both public and private, and wholly unlike the traditional gallery space of the Museum itself. They take advantage of the numerous capabilities of the Net: its simultaneously linear and non-linear potential for movement, its ability to stream images, sound, and text, and, at times, the fact that Internet users have only provisional control of what comes across their screens . . . . " [San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]
Art Safari
http://moma.org/momalearning/artsafari/index.html
La Médiathèque du Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal [Comprehensive Site]
http://media.macm.org
MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art Online Projects
http://moma.org/onlineprojects/index.html
Web Art - [Walker Art Center]
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/10600
Walker Art Center Gallery 9
http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9
Postmasters Gallery
http://www.postmastersart.com
The Laboratory [Ruskin School and Oxford Project Research Site]
http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/Research/Laboratory
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain (use 'Go' to return to the Media Projects directory) - "Ever since it was founded in 1984, the fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain has been committed to building up a collecltion of work by living artists that is a reflection of the age in which we live and of the conflicting currents, singular approaches and highly individualised figures that underly the eclectlicism and diversity of the art of today.
http://www.fondation.cartier.fr
Media Lab MIT - Research Projects
http://www.media.mit.edu/Projects
Design Interaction at the Royal College of Art
http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk
http://www.rca.ac.uk/pages/research/interaction_design_607.html
City Picture Fiction
http://www.thecooker.com/here/citypict/index.html
Giantheads - "Here's an offbeat archive of Flash animations delivering quirky, up-tempo animated shorts in cartoon style. We got a kick out of Tiny DJ, chuckled at the butchered Russian lesson, and relished the riverboat poker game in "Sassafras". There's a great deal of tongue-in-cheek at this site, but it appears to be the home for a web design and production team with a portfolio of work in Spanish as well as English. Our recommendation -- skip the reviews and enjoy the tuneful mini-movies.
http://www.giantheads.com
Tetrasomia [Stephen Vitiello]
http://www.diacenter.org/vitiello
Electronic Poetry Center - "Poetry mixed with modern technology is called e-poetry. Electronic poets around the world are creating works that evolve and "perform" on the computer screen, according to Loss Pequeno Glazier, director of the University at Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center, which displays the work of many e-poets. "Electronic poetry has movement or programming qualities that allow for forms of experimentation that wouldn't even occur to print poetry writers," Glazier said. [from: E-Spectre, the online newsletter of the Museum Computer Network]
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc
Real-Time Systems for Fluid Abstract Expression - [ Still Images Documenting Interactive Drawing Environments]
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/golan/sketches
Maeda Studio
http://www.maedastudio.com
ArtPort Gate Pages to Artist Projects - (Whitney Museum, NYC)
http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/index.shtml
AndyDeck - Andy Deck makes public art for the Internet that resists generic categorization. Collaborative drawing spaces, game-like search engines, problematic interfaces, informative art Deck has made art software since 1990 initially using it to produce short films. SInce 1994 he has worked with the Web using the sites artcontext.com and andyland.net. An avid critic of corporate culture and militarism, Deck's hybrid news-art projects have addressed a variety of issues that are regularly misrepresented in the mass media, and sensing the drift of the Internet toward a marketing and entertainment medium, he has allied himself with open source software developers, optimizing his work for use with the Linux operating system, and publishing source code for much of his software. . . ."
http://www.andyland.net
Dia Center for the Arts - Artists Exhibitions and long-term Projects; Artist Web Projects; Program of Events; Books
http://www.diacenter.org
Dream Screens [Susan Hiller]
http://www.diacenter.org/hiller/index.html
Studio Visit [ Cheryl Donegan, DIA Center for the Arts]
http://www.diacenter.org/donegan/home.html
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit - Jan van Huysum , c. 1715 [National Gallery of Art, Washingotn, DC] [Click on each image for enlarged views of the details.]
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pdimage?95548+0
Art-netart - "This site is aimed at promoting contemporary art, worldwide. It wants to be eclectic, informative, evolutionary; the artists that you are about to meet are the authors of their own "official site"; they have decided on the headings, selected the works presented, checked out each and every detail; welcome to their world..." [Fondation Cartier]
http://www.art-netart.com
Zone Zero - "ZoneZero "is dedicated to photography. Its name intends to be a metaphor for the journey from analog to digital image making. One of the references comes from "The Zone System" a fine example of the analog heritage in photography made so famous by Ansel Adams. From the analog dark room we are now moving to the digital one; where everything analog is transformed into digits represented through the infinite combinations of either zeros or ones."
http://www.zonezero.com
Investigating the Renaissance [Harvard University Art Museums]
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Renaissance/index.html
Georgia Revealed [ Presented by One World Journeys and Washingtonpost.com] - Georgia Revealed is a live two-week expedition into one of the world's least known nations, yet one rich with natural wonder, historical resonance, and cultural depth. With daily updates from the field team and a rich presentation of digital photographic images, Georgia Revealed takes you to the interface between Europe and Asia, yesterday and tomorrow, as we search for the soul of the Caucasus."
http://www.oneworldjourneys.com/georgia/index.html
Academic Interactive Exercise - "To interact with the image, click and drag in the corners of the blackboard." [Robert Cumming, MOMA]
http://www.moma.org/onlineprojects/cumming
Mediachanel - Media Arts [Perspectives, News and Reviews, and File Room - "MediaChannel.org is the first Web portal
dedicated to international media issues, and the premiere Internet source for analysis and information about the media. Driven by content from a network of more than 410 international media organizations and contributors, MediaChannel explores areas such as freedom of expression, citizen access to media, trends in media ownership, media arts and the intersection of media and politics."
http://www.mediachannel.org
Boston Cyberarts Festival - Plans for 2009
http://www.bostoncyberarts.org
äda 'web
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/home.shtml
b e y o n d . i n t e r f a c e [Walker Art Museum Juried Exhibition of Net-specific Art]re-U-man [Links/Linking elements to ideas]; grammatron [Animated links/narration and animation combined to suggest life of its own "Nanoscript: fractious felicity of sequenced data coming"]; Technologies to the people [Web Page/Contents & animated ad/links]; Homework [frames]
http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/beyondinterface
Magasin - Centre national d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble
http://www.magasin-cnac.org
FAIRMODEL [Macroeconometric model of the U.S. Economy for forcasting, policy analysis, examination of historical episodes--Allows users to experiment with the U.S. economy]
http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu
Digital Art Source - "Explore 16 departments of curated, specially selected resources . . . . "
http://www.digitalartsource.com
Global SchoolNet's Internet Projects Registry and Online Expeditions -"Whether explorers travel the Silk Road of China or climb Mt. Everest, learning becomes an unforgettable adventujre as students join thrilling, real-time expeditions to remote and fascinating locations. Observe daily progress and read field dispatches. Best of all, interact with adventurers through intriguing dialogue as they re-enact history --or even make history."
http://www.gsn.org
Laserium Gallery
http://www.laserium.com/gallery/index.html
Leonardo - Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology ISAST, a networking center [SanFrancisco/Boston based] for artists and others interested in the use of new media in contemporary artistic expression.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/leon
"Please Change Beliefs" [Jenny Holzer]
http://www.adaweb.com/project/holzer/cgi/pcb.cgi
ars astronautica - Space Art Web Projects
http://www.spaceart.net
ICHING.POETRY.ENGINE - "[the I'Ching] is based on the recognition that the ever-changing diversities of existence have an underlying unity of order, in which everything is related to everything else." - Gyorgy Doczi . . . . "The I'Ching as a 6-bit State Machine. . . . . Originally installed at the Red Fez in Austin, TX on December 11, 2001. Programmed by Jared Tarbell. Design and XML poetry library by Lola Brine. Commissioned by the Austin Museum of Digital Art." (Jared Tarbell)
http://levitated.net/exhibit/iching/ichingdaily.html
John Simon Jr - Projects, including: 'Every Icon' - [1996] starts with an empty 32 by 32 element grid. Allowing any element of the grid to be colored black or white, the java applet progressively displays icons. Please Note: familiar desktop icons may not be displayed for trillions of years." [$20 for purchase unique applet, unlimited edition.]
http://www.numeral.com/appletsoftware/online.html
A web project by Steven Salzman [Journal of Contemporary Art]
http://www.jca-online.com/salzman.html
Virtual Reality (Overview - National Center for Supercomputing --- Virtual Reality Laboratory (College of Engineering, Univ. of Michigan)
Wake (Gary Simmons, at the DIA Center) - "For "Wake," his first project for the web, Gary Simmons has photographed empty ballrooms and other dance spaces redolent of an earlier era. As the viewer moves the mouse over the screen, image fragments appear then quickly fade, making it impossible to view any of his nine haunting scenes in its entirety at one time. Mediated by a soundtrack comprised of the humming of old but well-known songs that are still popular favorites, these sites seem generated as much by involuntary memory as by technical intervention. As with Simmons' earlier work, including his chalk drawings and more recently his photographs of pedagogical spaces, absence and the ephemeral are as palpably charged as what is present and lasting."
http://www.diacenter.org/simmons
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