Venues
- kedja.net
- The vision is to create: A permanent change of the position of North European contemporary dance, its mobility possibilities, the working conditions within the area and its status as an art form. Inherent in the keðja idea is also the possibility of on a long term basis to create a network reaching further out, expanding and involving more countries.
- dance-tech.net
- INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPLORATIONS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF MOTION
- media-dance.com
- MAD is a non-profit international network of media and dance festivals, centres, archives, and independent curators. Among the main goals of MAD are to serve as a resource to media & dance artists and programmers around the world and to establish an exchange of information and ideas in the field of media & dance. As representatives of their national media & dance artists, MAD aspires to explore different possibilities for both curatorial and artistic collaborations worldwide. In this way, MAD hopes to promote genres such as dance screen, dance installations, dance-technology hybrids, and computer-based dance to new audiences.
- ARS Electronica
- A Unique Platform Its specific orientation and the long-term continuity it has displayed have made Ars Electronica an internationally unique platform for digital art and media culture. It’s made up of four divisions: an avant-garde festival, a competition that functions as a showcase of excellence, a museum dedicated to the mission of imparting knowledge & skills, and a media art lab that makes artistic expertise available for R&D purposes.
- T h e N e t w o r k 2009
- The Network – a challenge in New Media “The Network” is the abbreviation for [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]||cologne, an experimental project environment for art and new media developed, created, curated and directed by Wilfred Agricola de Cologne (AdC), a multidisciplinary media artist, New Media curator and media art activist from Cologne/Germany.
- The Kitchen
- The Kitchen is one of New York City's oldest multidisciplinary, nonprofit performance and exhibition spaces, showing experimental work by innovative artists, both emerging and established. Programs range from dance, music, and theatrical performances to video, film, literary events, artists' talks, and lecture series.
- YouTube - thekitchennyc's Channel
- The Kitchen on YouTube
- bodydataspace
- Leading into new and visionary territories, bodydataspace (b>d>s) work with the expanding integration between the human body, technology and architectural space
- V2_ : Institute for the Unstable Media
- V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Founded in 1981, V2_ is an organization that concerns itself with research and development in the field of art and media technology. V2_'s activities include organizing (public) presentations, research in its own media lab, publishing, developing an online archive and a shop offering products that are related to V2_'s area of interest.
- Patchingzone
- The Patchingzone is a transdisciplinary laboratory for innovation where Master, doctor, post-doc students and professionals from different backgrounds create meaningful content. In our laboratories the students and researchers work together, supervised by experts, on commissions with creative use of high-tech materials, digital media and / or information technology.
- Waag Society
- Waag Society develops creative technology for social innovation. The foundation researches, develops concepts, pilots and prototypes and acts as an intermediate between the arts, science and the media. Waag Society cooperates with cultural, public and private parties. Waag Society is housed in two historic monuments in Amsterdam, de Waag and Pakhuis de Zwijger.
- ARGOS centre for art & media
- Argos explores the relationship between art and media and how these influence our perception of the world. In a time when digital information overload, industrial populism and corporate branding set the tone, the arts centre devotes itself to new forms of visibility and publicity. Argos’ territory is comprised of the audiovisual and plastic arts, whereby much attention is given to the interface with other disciplines and to the conscious and alert association with evolutions within the information society. Central to the workings is the artist, someone who defends critical singularities and confronts us with what is positioned outside of ourselves. Serving as an intermediary between the artist and the public, Argos strives to be a place for meeting, dialogue, and exchange. Its functions include production, conservation and archiving, as well as presentation – exhibitions, film and video showings, lectures and performances; additionally, Argos houses a public media library and provides a service for the international distribution of artists’ films, videos and multimedia installations.
- Facebook | ARGOS Centre for Art & Media
- ARGOS centre for art & media (www.argosarts.org), is one of Belgium's leading contemporary art centres. Our activities focus on the audiovisual and visual arts and the cutting-edge diversity that increasingly characterizes these disciplines. Argos promotes new forms of artistic practice, keeps an eye on internationally acknowledged developments, generates discussion on visual and media culture and is home to an important collection. Our work includes production, archiving and conservation as well as presentations, including exhibitions, film and video presentations, lectures and performances, and a media library open to the public. Outside of Belgium, Argos is predominantly known as an important distributor of art films and videos.
- Berkeley Center For New Media
- Our mission is to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media from cross-disciplinary and global perspectives that emphasize humanities and the public interest. Manifesto New media can transform how we perceive, learn, communicate, and experience the world. What is "new" is accelerating rapidly with emerging technologies, yet remains deeply rooted in powerful aesthetic, cultural, and political forces. The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), located at the center of design and information technology, is based in a public research university known for alternative thinking. Our mission is to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media from cross-disciplinary and global perspectives that emphasize humanities and the public interest.
- Atelier Nord
- Atelier Nord is a project base for unstable art forms, such as electronic and new media art. Our aim is to create better conditions for these art forms, and to maintain a critical reflection in relation to them. Our work consists of producing and supporting projects that promote these goals. We produce both collaborations and self initiated projects. A project can involve producing works of art, workshops, exhibitions and conferences. The projects vary in size and duration. For examples look here. Atelier Nord also offers various, standard services for production and communication.
- ATOPIA
- Atopia is an experiment, a research project, a laboratory for film and video art, and a room for connections, collaborations, as well as confrontations.
- BEK
- Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, is a non-profit organization situated in Bergen, Norway, which main aim is to be a national resource centre for work within the field of arts and new technology. BEK works with both artistic and scientific research and development and puts into practice an amount of mixed artistic projects. It also practices an educational program that includes curses, workshops, talks and presentations. BEK runs its own server and hosts several mailing lists and web pages for cultural organizations, artists and artistic projects.
- CIANT
- CIANT is an international platform for research, production and presentation of creative use of information and communication technologies within the arts, often intersecting with various scientific domains. During the last 10 years CIANT has established art/science collaborations with research institutes, universities, art centres as well as individuals across the whole of Europe and beyond. Based in Prague, Czech Republic. CIANT is a non-governmental non-profit civic association that invites artists, scientists, researchers, curators, and arts managers to get involved in various formats of short- and long-term exploratory research and production activities on both local and international level. With an assistance of public and private funding CIANT initiates and implements projects that aim to transfer knowledge among different creative and research domains while resulting in concrete outcomes such as interactive applications prototypes, new software and hardware integrations or take a form of artworks. Many activities have strong educational and presentational aspect: training sessions, festivals, exhibitions, performances and conferences.
- UNESCO Art, Science & Technology
- DigiArts was one of UNESCO’s major initiatives aiming at the development of interdisciplinary activities in research, creativity and communication in the field of media arts. Aims of the project: Disseminate historical, theoretical, artistic, technical and scientific research in the field of electronic and digital arts, including interdisciplinarity study of the arts and the sciences; Promote information exchange, dialogue and communication among artists, scientists and technicians from different geo-cultural regions, especially enabling developing countries to develop their own approaches and practices in various disciplines and fields of knowledge connected to media arts; Support existing institutions and networks throughout the world in the transfer of knowledge; Encourage the use of electronic software among the youth for electronic communication and creation.
- Experimenta
- Biennial of Media Art We have developed a biennial model for artistic and business planning that comprises an International Biennial of Media Art that we launch in Melbourne and then tour nationally to capital cities and regional centres. Experimenta presents inspiring exhibitions with themes that capture the imagination of a broad cross-section of people. Our events have attracted an average of 80,000 visitors per year over the past 3 years. International Touring Experimenta has developed a world-wide reputation for fostering creativity that extends the aesthetic and conceptual potential of new art forms and our exhibitions have been the launching pad for many high profile Australian contemporary artists. Through international exhibition touring Experimenta promotes Australian media art and develops overseas markets for the best and most innovative work of Australia.
- Furtherfield, web art, political art, poetry, critical text & creative freedom
- Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change.
- i/o/lab » Om iolab
- i/o/lab sin visjon er å bygge opp et miljø for å kunne formidle og tilby profesjonelle kunstnere – skapende og utøvende – fagkompetanse, utviklings- og produksjonsmuligheter samt formidlingsløsninger for ny teknologisk kunst.
- Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln: media art
- The Media Art section focuses on learning, engaging with, and exploiting the artistic potential of the latest media. Pushing forward the experiment that is art in other ways. It demands from the students to make the impossible possible, to understand freedom as something that is elemental, and to learn how to deal it.
- LabforCulture
- We work with and for artists, arts and culture organisations and networks, cultural professionals and audiences in the 50 countries of Europe, as well as providing a platform for cultural cooperation between Europe and the rest of the world. Our mission is both to ensure that all those working on cultural collaboration have access to up-to-the-minute information and to encourage the cultural sector to become more experimental with online technologies.
- Media Lab Helsinki
- The mission of the Media Lab is to explore, discover and comprehend the new digital technology and its impact in society; to find and exploit the possibilities it opens to communication, interaction and expression and to evaluate, understand and deal with the challenges it poses to design and creative production.
- Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo/Time Based Arts
- The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts has set the goal for itself of promoting the wide development, application and distribution of, and reflection on new technologies in the visual arts. The Netherlands Media Art Institute supports media art in three core areas: presentation, research and conservation, and through its facilities provides extensive services for artists and art institutions. Associated with this are educational programmes, which are developed for all activities.
- New Media Scotland
- New Media Scotland is a national development agency fostering artist and audience engagement with all forms of new media practice.
- NoD
- Experimental venue in Prague
- NOTAM
- Norwegian center for technology in music and art – fills a number of functions in the Norwegian music scene. NOTAM contributes to knowledge building for composers, musicians and artists, students in various arts studies, through technical and theoretic work in the field of art and technology. We have at our disposal technical resources such as studios, computer labs and portable equipment, and we impart knowledge and pass on information about works both through our own arrangements and through contributions to concerts and exhibitions arranged by others. An example is the exhibition LIGHTS ON at the Astrup Fearnley Museum in the spring of 2008. We have the technological know-how and can efficiently solve problems defined by artistic requirements.
- okno.be | artist-run organisation for art and media technology
- OKNO is an umbrella organization. In a decentralized way, that maybe only Belgians can understand, OKNO is an umbrella consisting of several suborganizations, whose number nor identity is fixed. Each organization takes on its own role in the various aspects of the OKNO field but they are all pervaded by the same themes: the network, the digital, the environment, the algorithm. These are taken as the basis for a technology and science driven art, without compromise.
- RAFLOST
- RAFLOST an annual art festival of electronic media is taking place in Reykjavik, Iceland. The RAFLOST art festival is dedicated to professional artists and students of all art forms, music, visual art, dance etc. that are using electricity or electronic equipment at any stage in their artistic creation.
- Školská 28 komunikační prostor
- Communication Space Školská 28 is a multifunctional space for various nonprofit cultural and artistic activities. The space offers the community a variety of public activities connected to social life in the center of Prague. These activities take the form of a wide spectrum of initiatives, projects, and activities, and they also contribute to a revitalization of facilities for the improvement of the local civic conditions of intergenerational communication, while working together with other non-commercial initiatives.
- S T E I M
- Center for research & development of instruments & tools for performers in the electronic performance arts. Laboratory, workshop, international meeting place, artist hotel, production office, live electroacoustic music, DJ's, VJ's, theater and installation makers, video artists and nomad studio.
- SymbioticA - Welcome
- “An artistic laboratory dedicated to the research, learning and critique of life sciences” SymbioticA is an artistic laboratory within the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia. It is dedicated to the research, learning and critique of life sciences. It is the first research laboratory of its kind, in that it enables artists to engage in wet biology practices in a biological science department. SymbioticA hosts residents, runs workshops, produces exhibitions and organises symposiums as part of the core activities.
- Institut Intermédií
- The Institute of Intermedia (IIM) promotes study and advanced transdisciplinary research in technology, science, performance and the arts. IIM supports collaborations between students, artists, academics and scientists from a range of disciplines and countries. Intermedial research implies exchanges founded on disciplinary-based concepts, practices and methodologies advancing specific disciplinary inquiries while creating new and interdisciplinary academic and artistic concepts and applications.
- Transmediakunst
- Wir sprechen von Transdisziplinarität, sobald ehemals disziplinferne Felder wie Kunst und Wissenschaft neue Kooperationsarten experimentell erforschen wollen. Das bedeutet die Ausweitung von interdisziplinären Problemlösungsstrategien innerhalb der Wissenschaften oder der Künste im Versuch, künstlerisches mit wissenschaftlichem Arbeiten zu verbinden.
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media
- Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe As a cultural institution, the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe holds a unique position in the world. It responds to the rapid developments in information technology and today's changing social structures. Its work combines production and research, exhibitions and events, coordination and documentation.
- CYNETart_08 - The Festival - Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau
- The MahaWorks Art Organisation
- MahaWorks is a non profit association, established in 2001 and leaded by Lazara Rosell Albear and Eli Van de Vondel for research and production of cross-media projects and films. Our aim is to explore and enhance our/your experimental awareness beyond the usual stereotypes, expansion at different levels, at different layers, to free yourself from all fetters that we carry within. Striving for innovation, discovery, fusion, collaboration in touch with integrity and in service. Because of the difficulty to express abstract intellectual thoughts, all available means are examined and used for trying to achieve a communicative expression. Evolution has brought us “new” means to work with such as computer and digital semantics, video and 3D which gives new approaches and broaden the paradigms in which we can express ourselves. But also traditional means as dance, music, theater concepts are used contrapuntal togetherness. Using them in relational combinations creates exponential possibilities.
- dancemedia.com
- The non-profit membership organization acts as an information clearinghouse and meeting ground for the user, producer, and distributor of dance films. www.dancefilmsassn.org
- Ircam
- IRCAM, the Institute for Research and Coordination Acoustic/Music, is one of the world’s largest public research center dedicated to both musical expression and scientific research. IRCAM is a unique location where artistic sensibilities collide with scientific and technological innovation. Frank Madlener has directed the institute since 2006. IRCAM's three principal activities - creation, research, transmission - are manifest in IRCAM's Parisian concert season, in the institute's annual festival, and in productions throughout France and abroad.
- Synchronous Objects
- Synchronous Objects reveals the interlocking systems of organization in William Forsythe's ensemble dance One Flat Thing, reproduced through a series of objects that work in harmony to explore its choreographic structures and reimagine what else they might look like.
- L'animal a l'esquena
- L’animal a l’esquena responds to the need of its founders: María Muñoz and Pep Ramis, the artistic directors of Mal Pelo, to open up their dance company structure to a network structure based on the interchange with other artists and creators. In 2001, together with Toni Cots - artistic director and producer of many international performing arts projects -, they define the objectives of the centre and since then they are sharing its artistic direction.
- Medialab-Prado Madrid
- Medialab-Prado is a program of the Department of Arts of the City Council of Madrid, aimed at the production, research, and dissemination of digital culture and of the area where art, science, technology, and society intersect. Our primary objective is to create a structure where both research and production are processes permeable to user participation. To that end, Medialab-Prado offers: · A permanent information, reception, and meeting space attended by cultural mediators. · Open calls for the presentation of proposals and participation in the collaborative development of projects.
- Hangar.org
- Hangar is a centre for arts production and research, set up by the Association of Visual Arts of Catalonia (AAVC) in 1997. It provides support facilities for artists and designers and offers services adapted to production needs associated with the arts world. The centre is housed in refurbished industrial premises in the Poblenou neighbourhood of Barcelona. Its 1,800 m2includes 15 individual studios, Medialab, 2 film sets, an equipment rental service,technicians and consultancy and advice on production. In addition to its international exchange programme, Hangar also offers production grants and a series of training workshops for artists. The centre is subsidised mainly by the Catalan Government and Barcelona City Council, and is managed by the AAVC Foundation. Focused on production and research, its management model and philosophy make Hangar a unique venue in Spain in general and Barcelona in particular.
- eyebeam.org
- Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution.