Artists working with audio, video, kinetics, mechanics, robotics, computers, networks, performance etc. Check out the "misc" category. Often the most interesting stuff is difficult to stick in one category, or even categorize at all.

• electronics, robotics, kinetiecs, mechanics
• sound, video, performance, animation
• network & internet based art
• misc.

Works by Diana Burgoyne

Artist works with sound, performance and beautiful hand crafted electronic circuits.

The Normill

All hail great leader!

LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots

Guitar playing robot, various sound computer controlled sound making devices.

Institute for Applied Autonomy

Graffitti robot and more!

Jeff Mann

Arthur Ganson's Machines / Kinetic Sculpture

Ken Gregory: cheapmeat.net

Ken Rinaldo

"Robotic sculpture, sound art, interactive art, and projection environments inspired by natural systems."

strandbeest

Theo Jansen. Amazing wind (and other) powered mechanical beach creatures.

Bill Vorn

Longtime Montreal-based robotics artist

Royal DeLuxe

France based street theatre. Amazing giant street puppets, traditional and animatronic. Youtube has lots of video.

Simon Penny

Calder's Circus.

MPEGs of film document of Alexander Calder performing his circus. Also on Youtube.

Gijs Gieskes

Nelson Henricks

Montreal based video artist.

christof migone

Tehching Hsieh Art Documents DVD ROM

Year long performances.

medium records

Check out Brian McKenna's video's.

Graeme Patterson

Sometimes creepy stop motion animation.

Gordon Monahan

"...creates music, sound sculpture, sound installation, and computer-controlled sound environments that span various genres from avant garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art."

LF:TK : LiveForm:Telekinetics

Transatlantic telematic dinner party.

Garnet Hertz - Experiments in Galvanism: Frog with Implanted Webserver [Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada]

Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot - Garnet Hertz

Garnet Hertz - conceptlab.com

Worthers'Original

Anything that wouldn't comfortably fit in the other categories...

Daniel Jolliffe: Electronic Media Art

Electronic, interactive sculptures by Daniel Jolliffe

nat.jeremijenko.project.hub

Natalie Jeremijenko. Engineer come artist, or is it the other way around? Ride a stock market crash, consider what makes one kind of data more valuable than another, also some dark and clever humour in here.

some sally mckay projects

Lots of interesting things going on here, with lots of links.

Juan Geuer Website

One time physicist making compelling installations.

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Jonah Brucker-Cohen. "...coin-operated.com is an experimental digital media creation company. We make games, installations, videos, and other interactive projects using digital technologies."

Rita McKeough

Sound, performance, electronics, mechanics.

David Rokeby

Germaine Koh reference site

reference site for artist Germaine Koh

Graffiti Research Lab

Marieke

Links to sites first nations media artists and general information, like archives etc.

First Nations Performance @ grunt gallery

First Vision

First Vision presents the curatorial vision of three important Vancouver curators and artists from the aboriginal community: Archer Pechawis, Daina Warren and Tania Willard. First Vision features the work of artists Peter Morin, Gord Hill, Charlene Vickers, Judy Chartrand, Skeena Reece, Lori Blondeau, Terrance Houle, Kerriann Cardinal, Keith Langergraber, David Neel, Cheli Nighttraveller, George dePape aka Sammy Sammy, Reona Brass, Delores Dallas and Cheryl L'Hirondelle.

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Work of Cheryl L'Hirondelle.

artinjun.ca

artinjun.ca is an ndn internet site for ndn net.art

Urban Shaman - Online Contemporary Aboriginal Art

Exploring contemporary Aboriginal art, aesthetics, new media and online art practices for and by Aboriginal artists, art and art history teachers and professors, students, gallery curators, arts writers and other arts professionals.

A future website hosted by Rainy Day Internet

Articles, online journals, research tools and texts spefically relevant to art & technology, but also general resources as well.

• articles, text
• misc.
• journals, online publishing
• presses,  books

7 ways of Misunderstanding Interactive Art

David Rokeby: The Computer as a Prosthetic Organ of Philosophy

Hyperfiction, Netzliteratur, Hypermedia, Interfiction. German and English journal on digital literature and digital art: Reviews, interviews, theory, conference reports, announcements.

ROAR - Paper Tiger's Guide to Media Activism

Essays in Cultural Phenomenology

"Flickering Signifiers"

Immanence Online, Laura U. Marks

Laura U. Marks

Laura U. Marks: How Electrons Remember MFJ 34 1999

Edward A. Shanken

Writing related that wouldn't fit elsewhere...

ANAT: News #33 scientific serendipity ~ CRITICAL WRITING

Catalogue -Recent Books - Playwrights Canada Press

High Performance back issues

[SCULPTURE]. BEYOND MODERN SCULPTURE: THE EFFECTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON THE SCULPTURE OF THIS CENTURY. by Burnham, Jack. : Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd. :

The Planetary Collegium

Access to ejournals, and online books.

CTHEORY BOOKS - The Digital Publishers

This is the New World Perspectives website. New World Perspectives publishes CultureTexts, a provocative series of critical explorations in theory, politics and culture. All contents copyright New World Perspectives, 1997, 1998.

Project MUSE

YYZ Artists' Outlet - YYZMART

Banff Centre Press

Home - The MIT Press

The MIT Press online catalog contains descriptions of in-print and out-of-print books, current and past journals, online ordering/subscription options, contact and customer service information, news, events, and other materials relating to our publications.

conundrum press

Stuff included here is general meant to be largish or large archives of artist's work and related material, but other stuff is mixed in as well.

VASULKA.ORG home

Steina and Woody Vasulka Vasulka.org - Vasulkaarchive

Fondation Daniel Langlois

La fondation Daniel Langlois pour l'art, la science et la technologie a pour vocation de faire avancer les connaissances en art et en science en favorisant leur rencontre sur le terrain des technologies. La fondation souhaite ainsi encourager l'épanouissement d'une conscience critique à l'égard des implications des technologies sur l'homme, ainsi que l'exploration d'esthétiques propres aux nouveaux environnements humains. Par le biais de son Centre de recherche et de documentation (CR+D), la fondation contribue à documenter l'histoire, les œuvres et les pratiques associées aux arts technologiques ou médiatiques, électroniques et numériques, et à rendre cette information accessible de manière innovatrice par des moyens télématiques.

CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART

U B U W E B

V Tape - Video Art Research Database

artengine.ca

Women Artists in Canada - Les Femmes artistes du Canada

digital collection of works of art by contemporary women artists in Canada - collection numérisée des oeuvres créées par les femmes artistes du Canada

Main Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Struts Artist-Run Centre

Sackville NB based ARC. Residencies, media centre.

INTER/ACCESS

Toronto. Mother ARC for all media arts related activities.

BEK

Bergen, Norway based artist run centre, part of Norwegian media arts network.

T : E : K : S

Trondheim, Norway based artist run centre, part of Norwegian media arts network.

eyelevelgallery

Halifax NS: "eyelevelgallery is a non-profit, artist run centre and registered charity which presents the work of contemporary Canadian artists, both regional and national, since its establishment in 1974."

PAVED Arts

Saskatoon based media arts oriented ARC.

Grunt Gallery

"grunt is an artist-run centre formed in 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We program exhibitions, performances, artist talks, publications and special projects. In this site you will see current and past work and artists' projects by contemporary Canadian and International artists. "

Mercer Union: A Centre for Contemporary Art

Toronto-based.

OBORO

Montreal based : "...a non-profit artist-run centre for contemporary art and new technologies. Oboro supports research, production and distribution in the fields of visual arts, media arts, performance and new technologies."

YYZ Artists' Outlet

YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada

Trinity Square Video - www.trinitysquarevideo.com

Trinity Square Video: Video Artist Collective & post production facility in Toronto, Canada

Charles Street Video - www.charlesstreetvideo.com

Charles Street Video: Video Artist Collective & post production facility in Toronto, Canada

EMMEDIA | gallery & production society

Calagary based media arts production facility. Has residencies.

Galerie SAW Gallery

Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa based.

G101 • Welcome | Bienvenue

Ottawa based.

La Chambre Blanche

ARC in Quebec City. Shows, residencies.

Mercer Union: Links

Conceptual Design/Info Arts Links

Stpehen Wilson's giant list of media art links: "Comprehensive, categorized set of links of artists working science and emerging technologies including interactive media, biology, digital systems, artificial life, robotics, telecommunications, etc. "

artengine - recommended opensource software

Dr. Eddie Shanken's links.

Simon LaRoche's links

Simon is an artist teaching in IMCA at Concordia. These are his handy New Media links.

Old Links 1 and Old Links 2

Previous versions of this page. Icluded becuase they have links that I forgot or was too lazy to put here. Lots of dead links though.

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William J. Beaty

Incomplete list of various recommended useful and quality softwares handy for electronic and media arts. See the last few links in this category for large, searchable repositories of free software, where you can look for more.

OpenOffice.org: Home

Office software: text, spreadsheets, presentations etc. + export to pdf, very handy!

Firefox

Internet browser.

Thunderbird

Email client.

The Gimp

Manipulate images. (Like Photoshop)

Blender

3D graphics creation.

Inkscape

Vecto graphics editor (like Illustrator).

Nvu

WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh and Windows.

Ardour

A multichannel digital audio workstation. JACK-able.

Audacity

A free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

JACK

"Have you ever wanted to take the audio output of one piece of software and send it to another? How about taking the output of that same program and send it to two others, then record the result in the first program? If so, JACK may be what you've been looking for."

Hydrogen

Advanced drum machine, JACK-able.

Kino

Linux based digital video editing.

DVDStyler

DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring System.

PD

(PureData) dataflow programming environment

GEM

"GEM" stands for Graphics Environment for Multimedia and is an external (plugin) for the computer-music software PD."

GridFlow

A multidimensional dataflow processing library for PureData and Ruby, designed for interactive multimedia

Processing

Processing is an electronic sketchbook for developing ideas. It is a context for learning fundamentals of computer programming within the context of the electronic arts.

Sourceforge

Search for, download and install free and opensource software.

Tucows

Search for, download and install free and opensource software.

• general electronics, physical computing
• basic stamp microcontrollers
• PIC microcontrollers
• suppliers

Ibiblio Lessons In Electric Circuits

Comprehensive, free online textbook in electronics.

Physical Computing

physical computing, interactive, invention, installation, art, communication, robotics, conscious, video, vision, sensor, microcontroller, circuits, serial, basic, flash, java, director, max, processing

Epanorama

Circuits, circuits, circuits!

Aaron Cake

More circuits...

Richard Steven Walz

Yet another circuit archive.

Nuts n Volts

Parallax

Seetron

Bob Blick

HVWTech

Blue Sphere Research

Acroname

DigiKey Canada

Jameco

Mouser

Abacom

Linx

Solarbotics

C & H

ElectroSonic Canada

MSI

Allcorp

PIC Microcontrollers

Microchip

The First Run/Icarus Films Home Page

Kino International: The Best in World Cinema

Kino: The Best In World Cinema - including European, Asian, Silent, and American Independent titles. Kino International sells videos and dvds directly to customers through its online store and mail order catalog.

V tape

"Information and distribution of mediaworks by artists and independents."

Subtle Technologies

Toronto, Canada: "Subtle Technologies' mandate is to build bridges between the arts and sciences. It brings together people and ideas normally confined to separate realms and disciplines, connecting them - and their audiences - to one another."

ISEA (International Symposium Of Electronic Art

Ars Electronica

Piksel

Bergen, Norway: "Piksel is a festival and community for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source audiovisual software and art."

7a*11d

Toronto based international performance art festival.

• screenings
• exhibitions
• residencies
• funding

IMAGES FESTIVAL

Prairie Tales 8 | Alberta Film and Video on tour 2006

Live somewhere else and make your art for a while...

Australian Network for Art and Technology - ANAT

"ANAT is Australia's peak network and advocacy body for artists working with science and technology. At the forefront of Australia's rapidly evolving art and technology sector, ANAT creates opportunities for innovation, research and development both nationally and internationally."

NIFCA - Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art

TransArtists

Res Artis: Welcome

ResArtis - Worldwide Network of Artist Residencies

Grants, scholarships, awards...

Fondation Daniel Langlois

La fondation Daniel Langlois pour l'art, la science et la technologie a pour vocation de faire avancer les connaissances en art et en science en favorisant leur rencontre sur le terrain des technologies. La fondation souhaite ainsi encourager l'épanouissement d'une conscience critique à l'égard des implications des technologies sur l'homme, ainsi que l'exploration d'esthétiques propres aux nouveaux environnements humains. Par le biais de son Centre de recherche et de documentation (CR+D), la fondation contribue à documenter l'histoire, les œuvres et les pratiques associées aux arts technologiques ou médiatiques, électroniques et numériques, et à rendre cette information accessible de manière innovatrice par des moyens télématiques.

Canada Council For The Arts

Important part of the Canadian Government since 1950: grants, residencies etc.

Conseil Des Artes et Des Lettres, Quebec (CALQ)

Quebec Arts and Letters: grants, residencies etc.

Boing Boing

"A directory of wonderful things."

Slashdot

"News for nerds. Stuff that matters."