Unlekker.net

Marius Watz's website of projects that he have created with processing

http://www.unlekker.net/

DESIGN MUSEUM

This is a design museum worth checking out, because it has an eclectic collection of artworks. 

http://www.designmuseum.org/

zhang dali

Zhand Dali (astonishing sculptures)

Chinese sculptor and graffiti artist

http://www.chinesecontemporary.com/zhang_dali.htm

ART 21

ART 21 presents artists from all media. They share their ideas and creations with you through videos and reviews. There are magazines that you can order and events or discussions that you can join. check out their website:   http://www.pbs.org/art21/index.html

PHOTOGRAPHY

comment and show photographs to other photographers. Forums, tips, news, stores, and all sorts of photography related facts you can find here. awesome web, site check it out!

http://photo.net/

Photo journal

This site provides tips and updates for photographers! there are forums and ads... check it out

http://www.dphotojournal.com

modified toy orchestra

check out this band! they used their own modified toys to play music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erkV7gOv09M&feature=related

Sam Taylor Woods

Sam Taylor Woods create photographs and films of extreme scenarios of our social and psychological conditions. 

http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-art-photography-and-video-sam-taylor-wood.htm

LANGLOIS

Daniel Langlois Foundation

for Art, Science, and Technology

The Foundation aims to further human knowledge by supporting artistic, scientific and technological research. Revealing the interdependency between ourselves and our omnipresent technological environment is at the core of the Foundation’s questioning.

The Foundation seeks to bring art and science closer together within a technological context on two levels: first, by nurturing a critical awareness of technology’s impact on ourselves and on our natural and cultural environments and second, by promoting the exploration of aesthetics reflecting the environments that we shape. The Foundation also seeks to promote the emergence of knowledge founded on local practices that contribute to the growth and well-being of people in their communities and environments.

http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/f/

Hobnox!

Share and View other artists' videos, music and other art projects online .

Edit your music and video live. Remix other people's art works. 

http://www.hobnox.com

Eclectic musical instruments

http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/index.html

Art Fourrm

A must see web site for all artists. Includes art gallery informations, exhibitions all over the world, film, advertisements, articles, news, diaries, and many other info...

http://artforum.com/

Frieze contemporary art magazine!

frieze is published eight times a year and includes essays, reviews and columns by today’s most forward-t-thinking writers, artists and curators. A great magazine for all artists. 

http://www.frieze.

E-FLUX

Established in January 1999 in New York, e-flux is an international network which reaches more then 50,000 visual art professionals on daily bases through its website, e-mail list and special projects. Its news digest – e-flux announcements – distributes information on some of the world's most important contemporary art exhibitions, publications and symposia.

The daily digest is put together in cooperation with nearly a thousand leading international museums, art centers, foundations, galleries, biennials and art journals. Our focused and selective approach to the information we choose to distribute has been rewarded by an exceptionally high degree of attention and responsiveness from our readers.

http://www.e-flux.com/

under ground film

"Undergroundfilm.com is dedicated to using digital distribution to bring filmed entertainment to audiences throughout the world."

Our goals are to:

• Create a digital film library with the widest breadth of content possible
• Broaden exposure by making hard-to-find works available through Internet distribution
• Enable high-quality display on a variety of devices and networks
• Assist filmmakers by providing collaborative tools, digital rights management (DRM), and commerce solutions.

http://www.undergroundfilm.com/

Evelyn Glennie: How to listen to music with your whole body

Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie's music challenges the listener to ask where music comes from: Is it more than simply a translation from score to instrument to audience? How can a musician who has almost no hearing play with such sensitivity and compassion?

The Grammy-winning percussionist and composer became almost completely deaf by the age of 12, but her hearing loss brought her a deeper understanding of and connection to the music she loves. She's the subject of the documentary Touch the Sound, which explores this unconventional and intriguing approach to percussion. 

Along with her vibrant solo career, Glennie has collaborated with musicians ranging from classical orchestras to Björk. Her career has taken her to hundreds of concert stages around the world, and she's recorded a dozen albums, winning a Grammy for her recording of Bartók'sSonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, and another for her 2002 collaboration with Bela Fleck.

"Evelyn Glennie is simply a phenomenon of a performer."

New York Times      http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/103

Sound stylings by a human beatbox

James Burchfield -human beatbox

Outside of the hip-hop world, the art of "human beatboxing" was mostly overlooked until the droves came to YouTube. For that trend -- from obscure fad to open mic-night fixture to full-scale Internet meme -- some credit is due to James Burchfield. Known by the handle AudioPoet, the young artist was a main figure in Seattle beatboxing competitions and open-mics in the early 2000s, and then on larger stages like San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts Theatre.

For a musician whose goal is "enlightenment of the mind," Burchfield has a fairly concrete tack: studying the mathematical formulas that are the foundation of music. He brings that knowledge -- and an instinct for dance-friendly grooves that simulate seemingly impossible-to-mimic machine sounds -- onto every stage.

"A mind-blowingly inventive and agile human beatbox."

The Stranger

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/364

FUTURE CINEMA

Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film

Edited by Jeffery Shaw and Peter Weibel

Throughout the history of cinema, a radical avant-garde has existed on the fringes of the film industry. A great deal of research has focused on the pre- and early history of cinema, but there has been little speculation about a future cinema incorporating new electronic media. Electronic media have not only fundamentally transformed cinema but have altered its role as a witness to reality by rendering "realities" not necessarily linked to documentation, by engineering environments that incorporate audiences as participants, and by creating event-worlds that mix realities and narratives in forms not possible in traditional cinema. This hybrid cinema melds montage, traditional cinema, experimental literature, television, video, and the net. The new cinematic forms suggest that traditional cinema no longer has the capacity to represent events that are themselves complex configurations of experience, interpretation, and interaction. This book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the ZKM Institute for Visual Media, explores the history and significance of pre-cinema and of early experimental cinema, as well as the development of the unique theaters in which "immersion" evolved. Drawing on a broad range of scholarship, it examines the shift from monolithic Hollywood spectacles to works probing the possibilities of interactive, performative, and net-based cinemas. The post-cinematic condition, the book shows, has long roots in artistic practice and influences every channel of communication.

Philippe Decouflé

Philippe Decouflé (Astonishing digital multi media ballet dance)

Most choreographers are just that - choreographers! But Philippe Decouflé is more than this: a "camera danseur", a multi-media dreamer and an all-round producer of the sort of culture in which everything is determined by appearance and looking. What particularly fascinates Decouflé are simply images, be it on stage or in film. One camera pan and we see him as a director of video clips, a cinema choreographer or a manager of public parades. His TV spot, for cameras, of all things, was awarded the Silver Lion in Venice, while one of his videos won the Ministry of Culture's Prix de la qualité. He has been honoured in short film festivals, as well as by a festival for humorous short films and the association of French film critics. He has made commercials for France Télécom and shorts for advertising breaks on Antenne 2. His laboratory is a huge dice-shaped former electrical works building called "La Chaufferie". It was not solely due to its proximity to the World Cup stadium that Decouflé was chosen to choreograph Yves Saint Laurent models in the republic's sports ceremony. Philippe Decouflé is in fact the fifth republic's inofficial master of ceremonies. (Thomas Hahn, Journalist, Published in Ballet International Actual Dance -magazine)

check out his videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_CS07SD5k4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f53v4KTKV4I&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzfr9n1sMUE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFzCCeUPbys&feature=related

Reflections on Photography

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Roland Barthes)

The book talks about the essence of photography and the way spectators look at photography. The book introduces the two concepts of photography: studium (denoting the cultural, linguistic and political interpretation of a photo) and Punctum (denoting the wounding, personally touching details that is establish a direct relationship with the object or person).

NAM JUNE PAIK (DIGITAL MEDIA ARISTS)

Nam June Paik

South Korean-born American artist who works with a variety of media art and is considered to be the very first Video artist. Influenced by John Cage, many of Paik's works are based on fluxus movement.

http://www.paikstudios.com/

http://www.geocities.com/namjunepaik/gallery1.html

PIXELSUMO -Digital design, interactive play...

A web site that allows people to explore with interaction design , video designs, sounds, toys, playgrounds, and many more digital based art. 

Pixelsumo site:

http://www.pixelsumo.com/

Chris O'shea is a designer creating interactive work and he shares his works and experiments on this website.  

Chris O'shea's site:

http://www.chrisoshea.org/

Art, Price and Value

This web site is based on value of art and the market for art. There is an article, which talks about how Murakami, Damien Hirst and Michael Landy's art works are being priced in the market. It is worth checking out! Quite Bizarre.

Art, Price and Value : Contemporary Art and the Market

http://www.strozzina.org/artpriceandvalue/helguera.html

CSIF and EMMEDIA

Helpful websites:

calgary society of independent filmmakers

http://www.csif.org/

Emmedia

http://www.emmedia.ca/

VIDEO ART

A video art website where everyone can post their video art and look at other art videos. 

Check it out! 

http://www.videoart.net/home/index.cfm

THE PROPHET

THE PROPHET

AUTHOR: KAHLIL GIBRAN

In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have. --Brian Bruya 

The Alchemist

The Alchemist by Paulo Coeloho is a book that urges you to follow your dreams.

We all have dreams and we are here to achieve our dreams and our personal legend. 

We should add ourselves into the soul of the world and its purity and live our dreams. 

Quotes;

"simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciates them."

"when you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes    true."

"When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to      understand what's happening, because everything happens within you. "

"What's the world's greatest lie? It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's   happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate"

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

JAMES NACHTWEY

James Nachtwey (war photojournalist)

Publisher: Phaidon Press

460 pages of exhilarating and taunting photographs. 

  MUST SEE! 

       check out his talk on TED: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/james_nachtwey_s_searing_pictures_of_war.html