Collections/Zines/Curated Sites
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| Sites aggregating artists' work. |
| Fecal Face - 'A San Francisco based arts community that promotes things that turn us on and primarily focused on the artists and happenings of SF.' |
| Sour Harvest - A self-described 'one-stop reference source for all the latest happenings in the L.A. art underground.' |
| Curation Sites: History of Internet Art - An amazing resource for curated sites for internet instillations and interactive art. This one take you to school literally. |
| Computer Fine Arts Collection - A sick amount of web art instillations, when I found this I know I was getting close to the bugged out realm of Web art I was looking for. |
| Lab 404 - As far as I can tell a New Media review by UNC Asheville New Media artist, Curt Cloninger. |
| Design Is Kinky - A classic design e-zine showcasing much of the web's design landmarks. |
| kaliber 10000 - The designers lunchbox?? |
| Art Dorks - Art Dorks is a place on the wide world of the interweb for like minded artists to share their art work |
| Art Prostitute - Graphic arts and music 'zine and source. Tons of interesting stuff here and - as the name insinuates - art for sale. |
| Consumption Mag - Developed and distributed with one focus - street art and street inspired art is available to the public at any given time, it's completly free to those who seek it out - and more often then not, some of the most amazing and awe-inspiring works can be found on the streets. So with that creative energy and passion for art in mind, we produce Consumption Manual for free - for you. |
| Wooster Collective - A self-described showcase for street art, The Wooster Collective provides a homebase for some of the world's best stickers, graf, posters, culture jamming.
COLLECTIVE \Col*lect'ive\: done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; 'a joint identity'; 'the collective mind'; members of a cooperative enterprise
WOOSTER: a street in Soho, New York |
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Experimental Interactive
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| Finding new ways to navigate and present storylines using new media tools. |
| al-jahiz - 'These are drafts of the beginning of a thirteen part episodic comissioned by a US women's television station for their web site. ' |
| Day Dream Zine - Assorted experimental interactive instillations. |
| Playdamage - Can't tell you for sure, but it seems to be another abstract web instillation by artist Curt Cloninger. |
| YUGOP.COM - Abstract studies in different motion dynamics... I can't act like I know what this is, but each interface created here is amazing - abstract, but amazing. |
| Uncontrol - 'Visual sites based on dynamic interaction and motion.' He says his name is Manuel, but call him Manny. |
| 'Somehow Familiar Systematic Object' - Found in a Shift Magazine issue, they describe this site as follows: 'The first thing which surprised me while visiting this page is its geometric configuration which changes at high speed. The Figure displayed at random might be a hieroglyph, could be a human, or maybe a type of plastic model. The sites contents are hidden somewhere in the site.' |
| Nanikawa - Bugged out splash page flash thing.. something about 'exploring interaction of man and machine beyond traditional input.' |
| FUTURA 2000 - Non-linear navigation through abstract interactive instillations. |
| Trashlog - 'A piece of trash for the internet everyday.' |
| Morphases Editor - A flash-based, real-time face editor. Create faces from random or uploaded images and send off the result... Kind of creepy, kind of incredible. |
| Spamgraffiti - Interactive instillation created from spam sent to seperate email accounts. From Houston artist, David Chien. |
| The Retail Alphabet Game - As described on their site: ...'one part puzzle, one part self assessment, and a pinch of postmodern art.
When you select one of the editions to the left to play the Game, you will be presented with 26 alphabet letterforms, extracted from product and corporate logos within the United States.
Your job is to figure out the source of each.' |
| Superbad - Collection of abstract ineractive pieces created for no apparent reason other than for you to spend your time wondering. A classic. If you can't figure out the random piece generator interface, here's traditional link to the collection. |
| Yellow Wall - (Flickr Gallery) - An interesting use of the 'image notes' technology on Flickr to navigate an image set and present the user with a non-linear photo story. Basic but interesting. |
| Themes For Time - Another project from the Culture On Demand family. This site provides a showcase for the interactive exhibits from Culture On Demand and other interactive storytelling features. |
| Times Is Hard - An interactive entertainment project created as part of the Culture On Demand universe of projects. An unpretentious interface driven by a sophisticated under-the-hood set of tools, Times Is Hard serves up random images, random backgrounds and random CSS files each time the site is loaded. |
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Individuals/Miscellaneous
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| Silly Pink Bunnies - 'This dude is from upstate NY, but has called San Francisco home for the last ten yeats. As well as the commercial illustration, Jeremy exhibits his drawing, paintings, sculptures and screenprints in galleries all over the world. He would like to thank you for looking into the fantasy world where he spends most of his time.' |
| Grafedia - 'Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content - images, video, sound files, and so forth. It can be written anywhere - on walls, in the streets, or on sidewalks. Viewers 'click' on these grafedia hyperlinks with their cell phones by sending a message addressed to the word + '@grafedia.net' to get the content behind the link. ' |
| Water Your Garden - '...a husband and wife team of creative fools, working together to create unique hand made wearables. Responding to the over saturation of carbon copy clothing lines, we have decided to take a different approach and make wearables for the individual not the trends. Based out of our trusty Airstream Safari Trailer...' |
| The Love Station - 'This is where you will find all of the past art happenings for mr chris pastras or as the ladies know it THE LOVE STATION.' |
| The M-City - At www.m-city.org you can find an interactive application for constructing the cities on your own, from the same elements as were used in the real world. The constructor came to life to prolong the life of Cities when they cease existing in the real world. Up to date Cities were built in: Threecity, Warsaw, Bydgoszcz, Toru? and Pozna?. |
| Street Art Blows - 'We have to start asking questions and stop accepting everything on the walls as good. We need to ask ourselves why it is important that this is outdoors? Would this be any good if it weren’t? Why does it matter that this is done where and how it was? How is this new and, most importantly, why should I care?' |
| Akayism Projects - Stockhom artist dedicated to taking back our public spaces. |
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Legal/Copyright Issues
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| Know how to protect yourself and your work in the context of creating/presenting/performing your work - especially in public spaces. |
| Negativeland: Intellectual Property Issues - Audio culture jam pioneers, Negativeland, know quite bit about the legal perils of recycling of pop culture and have conveniently compiled a fine resource for copyright protection or protection in reusing content from public sapces. |
| US Copyright Law Resource - Copyright Law explained and freely available to help you protect your work from infringement. |
| Public Photography Rights - UK - Obviously rights differ from country to country, here is a link posted for rights of the public photographer in the UK. More discussion can be found on the flickr discussion concerning 'The rights of the urban photographer.' http://www.flickr.com/groups/praiseandcurseofthecity/discuss/66794/ |
| Public Photography Rights - USA - Shooting in public, especially post 9/11 can put you in unsavory confrontations with authorities. This document provides a clear definition of your rights to shoot in public. |
