Internet resources for Digital / New Media Art
- Useful Starters
- Digital Collections
- Digital Imaging Guides
- Professional Organisations
- Image Providers
- Artists' Web Sites
- Databases
For general information see the guides
Useful Starters
- Arts (opens in new window) Yahoo. Extensive directory of art links, online art and design journals, art journal sites, index and contents page
- ArtSource (opens in new window) A gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture from Mary Molinaro at the University of Kentucky, USA
- Computer Art (opens in new window) Resources from Nerd World Media
- Computer Graphics on the Net (opens in new window) A collection of sources connected with computer graphics on the net
- Digital Arts from WWW (opens in new window) This site offers access to digital arts, publications, resources and provides links to other categories of the visual arts
- Image Search (opens in new window) Altavista. A site that enables searches to be done on any subject
- Media Builder (opens in new window) Six search engines which can be used to locate graphic images including Earthcam, icon browser, image surfer, Lycos Media, web search and yahoo image surfer
Digital Collections
- Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) (opens in new window) Works documented through the images in this website have been indexed according to their inclusion in a number of widely used undergraduate art history survey textbooks. It is dedicated to the principle of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational community
- Artcyclopedia (opens in new window) An index of 7,000 artists with links to their scanned art at museums on the web
- Directory of Digitized Collections UNESCO (opens in new window). This site offers a listing of major digitised heritage collections and ongoing digitization programmes worldwide
- Image Collections Artsource (opens in new window). This site gives links to various digitised image collections
- Images 1 (opens in new window) National Library of Australia, Canberra. This site contains over 20,000 historical and contemporary images relating to Australia and its place in the world, including paintings, drawings, rare prints, objects and photographs
- Photobank Online UNESCO (opens in new window). This site contains a selection of UNESCO's collection of photographs and slides
- PICMAN (opens in new window) is an index to pictures and manuscripts at the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. It provides visual and written records of the life, people, culture, activities, fauna and flora of Australia and Pacific subjects
- Picture Australia (opens in new window) A web service based on a metadata index held at the National Library of Australia which links to pictorial images held on the web sites of participating cultural agencies
- State Library of Victoria (opens in new window) Multimedia catalogue which provides access to over 160,000 digitised images from the state library via a catalogue
Digital Imaging Guides
- Getty Art History Information (opens in new window) Introduction to imaging. A site that deals with the issues in constructing an image database
- Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) (opens in new window) TASI's mission is to advise and support the academic community on the digital creation, storage and delivery of image-related information
Professional Organisations
- ADAM (opens in new window) Art, design, architecture and media information gateway, U.K.
- Australian Network for Art and Technology (opens in new window) Australia's peak network and advocacy body for artists working with technology
- Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) (opens in new window), exists to foster collaborative working relationships among artists and scientists through the application of computer-mediated strategies
- Eurographics Association (opens in new window) European Association for computer graphics. Eurographics organises activities including conferences, workshops etc for those who work in the computer graphics industry, both as users and providers of hardware, software and applications
- Graphics Interface (opens in new window) Toronto, Canada. Sponsored by the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. A joint conference is held annually with the Vision Interface
- ISEA (opens in new window) Inter Society For The Electronic Arts. Founded in the Netherlands in 1990 and now based in Montreal, Canada ISEA is an organisation dedicated to the promotion and development of electronic art
- Leonardo Online (opens in new window) ISAST (International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology) is a professional society for those interested in the use of science or developing technologies in the contemporary arts. Activities include publication of several journals including Leonardo
- Public Domain Inc (opens in new window) Its mission is to explore the intersection of art, theory, technology and community
- SIGGRAPH (opens in new window) is dedicated to the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques
- Visual
Resources Association (opens in new window), (VRA), provides information about the Association's activities and links to
other notable visual resources sites
Image Providers
- Amazing Picture Machine (opens in new window) North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium
- Ditto.com (opens in new window) provides a visual mechanism to search the web using pictures instead of text
- Getty Images (opens in new window) One of the largest international providers of visual content to a diverse range of professional users of images, including advertising and design agencies, magazine, newspaper, broadcasters, production companies and the growing area of the web and new media publishers
- Image Finder (opens in new window) Sunsite, Berkeley, University of California Architecture slide library. Links to various image collections worldwide
- Picture Quest (opens in new window) A portal for rights protected and royalty-free low resolution images
- UK Stock Image Directory (opens in new window)
Artists' Web Sites
- Adaweb (opens in new window), hosted by Walker Art Institute. The new media archive features an interactive guide to recent projects plus an index of artists and galleries
- Electronic Arts Intermix (opens in new window) An online catalogue of artists' videos and new media, representing a broad survey of international media art from seminal works of the 1960s to new work by young artists of the 1990s
- Film and Media Webliography (opens in new window) Louisiana State University Library. Guide to sites on film and media
- Fons Welters (opens in new window) Amsterdam. A gallery showcasing a variety of contemporary painters and artists working in new media
- Living Sculpture (opens in new window) presents work of new media artist Yves Amu Klein
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