MISCELLANEOUS ANIMATION LINKS and TECHNICAL RESOURCE LINKS

This list will obviously never be comprehensive. Use it as a starting point only.

ANIMATION (also see NET ART Links page)

  • Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries - numerous Flash animations by Young-Hae Chang. using animated text with powerful presence
  • Jackie Goss, There There
  • Newsgames - including "Play Madrid" and "Play September 12", produced by newsgaming.com artists including Gonzalo Fasca, Sofia Battegazzore, Fabian Rodriquez, and others.
  • Lia at turux.org,
  • Praystation.net - version 1 and version 2, by artist,Joshua Davis has been referred to as the most recognized Flash work on the web. He also writes books about Flash techniques. Click on the Flash link called "web".
  • Marina Zurkow (NYC) - Animations and other projects
  • Futurefarmers describes itself as "cultivating consciousness" and is also the collaborative name of the artist duo Amy Franceschini and Sascha Merg, and sometimes Josh On. Their projects include several animated works linked from that main page, including Utopia. Another project featured at the 2002 Whitney Bienniel is called "They Rule", primarily produced by Josh On. They Rule is a Flash-animated representational database which critiques globalization and the networks of power embodied in the persons of multinational corporate boards members.
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Drive, an interactive Flash work by performance artist Kristin Lucas
  • John Cabral (US), Ground Zero (2001)- 24hr algorithmic animation
  • David Crawford, curatorial essay about John Cabral's work as an animator and other artists in the exhibition, "New Media/New Narrative
  • Bulls-Eye Art, The Woodcutter - interactive Flash animations
  • Audiophfile presents experimental sonic art using a Flash interface. It is edited by Laura McGough and the Nomads collective.
  • Soundtoys showcases and links to audio-visual interactive works. It is created and curated by the artist Stanza. Here are Soundtoys' featured projects.
  • Metapet - a critique of corporate culture in the form of an animated Flash game, billed as the "World's First Transgenic Virtual Pet Game" by the collaborative art group Action Tank (Natalie Bookchin, Cathy Davies, Mark Allen)
  • Now More Than Ever a Flash-based work by the artist collective, The Institute for Applied Autonomy, is an anti-surveillance map (in Flash) of NYC done for political activist actions and demonstrations.
  • Backteria is one of the Flash-animated works featured at Soundtoys
  • Filmtext 2.0, a Flash-based game by Mark Amerika
  • Broken Saints, a 24-part on-line story produced by Brooke Burgess using Flash
  • Panajotis Mihalatos interactive animations
  • an interesting interactive Flash screen by an unknown artist for a festival in Barcelona, Spain
  • Sissyfight 2000 is a Shockwave-based on-line animated game by artist Eric Zimmerman and others. It describes itself as an "intense war between a bunch of girls who are all out to ruin each other's popularity and self-esteem"..."The most ultimate and humiliating schoolyard popularity battle"
  • Andy Deck "Collabyrinth" (2003)
  • Markus Karlus and Kevin Rodgers "Golden Shower"
  • John Simon (US), Every Icon
  • Diminished Seventh by Thomson and Craighead

 

TECHNICAL RESOURCES

Some website focusing on technical processes and news about Flash software:

Some discussion groups focusing on Flash software and ActionScript:

(note that discussion group readings are an excellent way of learning a complex technical subject over time. Just as in non-internet groups, the process of learning things with a group of peers who share information in a sociable context can help some people in experiencing what outwardly may appear too abstract, as more vividly part of a lively social exchange.)

The 4 discussion groups listed here (plus several others) are linked and archived at the same website, Chattyfigleaf, http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/

  • Flashnewbie - " Mailing list for new users of Macromedia Flash"
  • Flash Lounge - "Social list for users of Macromedia Flash"
  • FlashCoders - "High traffic mailing list for programmers using Macromedia Flash"
  • FlashComm - Mailing list for developers working with Flash and Server integration