:: Organizations & Sites ::
Great blogger site covering the intersection between
art, design and technology. Always has interesting art and comments. This
is one of our most favorite sites.
Intellectual site co-created by Stephen Jay Gould, focusing on the lifework of the French-American artist, Marcel Duchamp
A great worldwide organization showcasing emerging art
with meetings and events. They have Dorkbot groups in various cities, such
as San Francisco,
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/, and host events showcasing:
People doing strange things with electricity.
Here, they have an excellent and massive list of links of technology-related organizations.
Great organization since 1988. They are a network
of artists who either use or are inspired by science and technology. ASCI also
produces exhibitions of kinetic art, interactive light art, solar art,
digital prints, and a Womentek exhibition. They've produced
four ArtSci international symposia on collaboration, and the ArtSci INDEX,
an online matching tool for potential collaborators. The send out a comprehensive monthly ASCI
eBulletin (for ASCI members).
Great site. Eyebeam is an art and technology center providing tools for digital research and experimentation.
Excellent site and a great organization. One of our
top-five choices. They showcase emerging art, events, and background info on
artists.
SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics)
is the premier organization of computer graphics, 3D, visual effects, and computer
animation. They host a yearly conference in August of about 25,000 people.
They show the best digital graphics and animation of the year, have technical
sessions for experts, and courses for everyone else.
Ylem is a San Francisco-based group that focuses on
artists using science and technology. They have a list of artists with
links of their art. They also host events where artist/scientists demonstrate
their work.
They create humorous and provocative biotech art.
They have international links of artists, events, organizations,
and e-zines related to the electronic arts.
This was the class web site on science and art for a
course Lynda Williams taught at the San Francisco Art Institute.
ArtsLab is a Leonardo/ISAST project supported by a grant
from the Rockefeller Foundation.
They have some great links and resources from high profile art activists.
Stephen Wilson is a professor of Art at San Francisco
State University. He has compiled a massive list of links related to all aspects
of art and technology. This is a great resource.
This Oakland-based organization teaches industrial grade fire arts, such as welding and smelting, has frequent fire-based performances, and has great pyrotechnic/fire/high-voltage theatrical events.
An annual event of 40,000 people focusing on radical
free expression, art, fire, and technology. It must be the largest art show
on earth - showing art that burns, moves, is interactive, and goes on all
night. It's an amazing event.
They hold an annual aerial robotic competition. They
also have links and videos on this site.
Symbiotica is an artistic laboratory in Australia dedicated
to the research, learning and critique of life sciences.
Art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself.
Arts and design of the future is what Transhumanist Arts and Culture Showings are all about.
CISST brings together faculty, undergraduate and graduate programs, and research initiatives concerned with understanding science and technology in an interdisciplinary context.
A site dedicated to art from data visualization and visual communication.
A gallery for those individuals utilizing digital generation and manipulation as an art form.
They find and spotlight brilliant art and experiences
(such as a brief lighting competition in London, or the Graffiti Research Lab’s
work) based on architecture. They showcase architecture that is art.
Like they imply, they hack at things for fun and technological improvement. Great stuff.
Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory in
Australia.
A selection of events, projects, news and announcements in the fields of art and science, and space & the arts.
Scotland’s center for research, production and exhibition
of contemporary art inspired by existing and emerging technologies.
ISEA is a Dutch-based organization consisting
of individuals and institutions involved in the creative, theoretical
and technological aspects of electronic arts.
Arts Council England is the national development agency
for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the
National Lottery. .
This was formally known as Xerox PARC, a think tank
of brilliant people who invented numerous technologies. Fuji bought them.
ASTN is an international organization whose members include national and local media art and technology organizations.
IADAS was founded in 1998 to help drive the creative, technical, and professional progress of the Internet and evolving forms of interactive media.
The
iota Center is dedicated to the preservation, promotion and celebration of
the art of abstraction in the moving image.
New
York City-based organization supporting artists in the performing and visual
arts, film, and video.
Interdisciplinary Multicampus Research Group of UC faculty who utilize digital media for cultural and theoretical research and in their creative production.
:: Foundations ::
First rate San Francisco organization that helps organizations
receive grant money. They have books, seminars, an open library, and your locallibrary
may also have direct access to them
GIA is an organization that serves grant makers. They
focus on who gives money to who (in the arts)
.
Site of the (U.S.) National Endowment of the Arts.
Provides the opportunity, leadership and tools needed by philanthropic organizations to expand, enhance and sustain their ability to advance the common good.
He founded Softimage (a major 3D animation program
and company) and with his money he created this excellent organization supporting
technology
and the arts. It's a great looking site, too! Check out the amazing art projects
he funded. Yet, funding, for now, has ended.
Artadia's mission is to encourage innovative practice
and dialogue across the United States by providing visual artists in specific
communities.
Great group. Turbulence has commissioned over 110 works
($450K) and exhibited and promoted artists' work through its Artists Studios,
Guest Curator, and Spotlight sections.
They fund artists.
This organization originated from the people
behind Burningman. They fund big art projects, put on events (Fire Arts Expo,
etc.) and sponsor
projects that are interactive and community-based
A high level foundation with a very impresssive list of members and supporters.
This is a small online handbook regarding the law for non-profit volunteers.
Intersection for the Arts is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space (1965) and has a long history of presenting new and experimental work in the fields of literature, theater, music, dance and the visual arts, and also in nurturing and supporting the Bay Area's cultural community through service, technical support, and mentorship programs.
Resource and directory guide to nonprofit art and technology
related sites. They have links to excellent resources.
The
New York Foundation for the Arts' (NYFA) mission is to serve individual artists,
promote their freedom to develop and create, and provide the public with opportunities
to experience and understand their work. They offer
financial assistance and information to artists and organizations that directly
serve artists in New York
State and throughout the US.
:: Annual Events ::
In Linz, Austria. Focuses on art, technology, and society.
The premier worldwide organization focusing on computer graphics and animation. Has an annual conference in August demonstrating new technologies, and includes courses and a theater of the best computer animation of the year.
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia.
Burningman is held in the Nevada desert in the last week of August, through Labor Day weekend. It is an annual event of 40,000 people focusing on free expression, art, fire, and technology. An amazing event.
Croatian-based art event consisting of exhibitions,
performances and lectures conceived as an exchange project between artists
working at the intersections of art and technologies.
