Intermediate Digital Imaging (ars263)
--last update 1.20.04

CITATIONS AND SUPPLEMENTAL LINKS
(additions are made on an ongoing basis)

Web scenes and communities related to new media art, net culture(s), cybertheory.

Required resource

Rhizome at www.rhizome.org - Rhizome is an artist-run, on-line, not-for-profit organization based in NYC. It features net art projects, reviews, news, announcements, etc.

Additional recommended websites

• The Thing at bbs.thing.net - The Thing established one of the earliest artist-run BBS's. It is now a portal for reviews, interviews, MUTE on-line journal, and discussion groups (see, especially the NETTIME archive, as well as Undercurrents archives, all available at The Thing) related to art, theory, media hactivism, etc.
• Afrofuturism at www.afrofuturism.net - Afrofuturism is outgrowth of the listserve discussion group of the same name (you can subscribe to the listserve at the website). Excellent links page. Black cultural production and its intersections with science fiction, African diaspora, music, cyberspace, new technologies, etc.
• Leonardo Electronic Almanac at mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/LEA2002/LEA/index.htm - This is an online extension of the academic monthly print journal (also recommended), Leonardo - Journal of Art, Science, and Technology. Its academic feel and scholarly style reflect its institutional ties and resources.
• Sarai: The New Media Initiative at www.sarai.net - Based in India and started by the artist group Raqs Media Collective (among others). This website portal has garnered international attention for its critical examination of urban culture, art, technology, and globalization. There are several ongoing discussion groups to which you can subscribe, in addition to free software and other evolving projects.
• Indymedia at www.indymedia.org - Indymedia, begun by artists working in activist media, is a portal to engaging ideas, actions, and representations related to contested processes of globalization. Since digital media is implicated in globalization debates, this is a valuable portal for political and cultural perspectives, plus ways to get involved.

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

• Macromedia's Flash support website, including tutorials and sample files
• Macomedia's own weblinks page of websites devoted to Flash
• Flazoom is a blog dealing with Flash
• Actionscript Toolbox - tutorials and code for the Flash scripting language "Actionscript"
• Alexis Trepanier's Flash MX examples
• Tutorials for Flash at the Webmonkey Web Developer Resource
• Actionscript on-line book
• Actionscript.org - Flash resources and tutorials
  

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

Concepts related to time-based art forms and animation:

• DJ Spooky writes about "Time and the Cinematic Image"
• Lev Manovich has written many extremely influential essays about New Media, including his book "The Language of New Media". You can visit his website for online essays including this one written 2002, on artists using Flash titled, "Generation Flash"

Selection of animation websites, many using Flash or Shockwave:

• Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries - numerous Flash animations by Young-Hae Chang. using animated text with powerful presence
• 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".
• 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 Nutrishnia.org and several animated works linked from that main page, including Levelwalker. 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
• Lia at turux.org,
• Diminished Seventh by Thomson and Craighead

Videos relevant to considerations of algorithmic structures, video "v-jaying". Historical and experimental approaches:

• British "News of the Day: Lambeth Walk" (1942, film, 2min.)
• Hollis Frampton, "Critical Mass" (1971, film, excerpt)
• Victor Masaysva, Jr. "Ritual Clowns" (1988, video, 17 min.)
• Not Channel Zero, "The Nation Erupts" (1992, video, excerpt)
• Blithe Riley, "Reception, Behavior, Outcome" (2001, video, 4:30 min.)
• Rob Fish and maine.indymedia.org, "This is What Quebec City Looked Like" (2001, cdrom distribution of activist video documentation of GATT protests, exerpt)
• Keith Sanborn, "Operation Double Trouble" (2003, video + streaming web video)
• Scott Pagano, "ok.town re.work" (2002, DVD documentation of interactive video performance, 5min.)

VIDEO RESOURCES

Video archives

• Internet Moving Images Archive, downloadable digital video files from the Prelinger Collection - industrial and institutional films from the mid-20th century.
• Open Video Archive is an artist-run expanding collection of works uploaded to its server by videomakers from around the world.
• Free Speech TV has an archive of videos for web viewing, as part of its public access programming on progressive issues by artists, activists,\and cultural producers. Use Internet Explorer browser for this Free Speech TV archives search engine.
• Television Archive. Downloadable video files from events of September 11, 2001
• American Memory Collections - Library of Congress collection of early photographs, sounds and movies (downloadable audio and video)
• Independent Media Center is a collective network of independent organizations dedicated to democratic media. Video archives are available for viewing at their sites.
• Cyclope archive, with preview clips of works by artists and cultural producers. This website is by Montevideo, a Netherlands-based media art organization

• UCLA streaming video archive of presentations by new media artists about their work and by cyberculture theorists.

VJaying culture (more software sites still to be added)

• consumer software example: "Yow: Quicktime DJ" (built with Max/Nato software)
• discussion of NATO software for realtime video performance.

Cultural Politics of "Open Source"

• The Great Open Source Giveaway, article by Graham Lawton (New Scientist, 2002)
• Philosophy of Copyleft - an alternative to the constraints operative in current copyright law.
• Creative Commons - advocacy site for the innovative reuse of intellectual works.
• Gallery of CSS Descramblers - a novel approach to challenging the free speech encroachments of current copyright law
• FREE - a project associated with the Netherlands organization WAAG, examining various aspects of "open source".