Media Art History
This is an excellent resource. Re:Live Media Art History organises a biannual confernence on the histories of media art, science and technology. The website keeps a record of the conferences.
The MediaArtHistoriesArchive - documents and hosts a" digital repository of scholarship examining
the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology! Our collections are currently being fleshed out and added to.
Archive Goals :: world wide access - create a place for classic texts, cross-pollinated, cutting-edge scholarship -
items submitted and regulated by authors - rich metadata
MAHArchive connects disciplines which devote research efforts to Media Art, from art history, through film, theater, media and cultural studies, to psychology, informatics, and anthropology, just to name a few."
Source: website
Refresh 2005 Original Site
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/?page_id=80
Programmatic Key Texts for Refresh 2005
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/?page_id=137
Programmatic Key Texts – from 2004, during the lead-up time to Refresh!
Dieter Daniels - What is the point of art in the media age?
Sara Diamond - Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions
Jean Gagnon - Collecting, preserving and archiving the media arts
Oliver Grau - Integrating Media Art into our Culture
Douglas Kahn - Digits on the historical pulse: Being a way to think about how so much is happening and has happened in sound in the arts
Ryszard W. Kluszczyński - After Brunelleschi, after Alberti…
Lev Manovich – Abstraction and Complexity
W.J.T Mitchell - There Are No Visual Media
Gunalan Nadarajan - Phytodynamics and Plant Difference
Christiane Paul - Challenges for a Ubiquitous Museum: Presenting and Preserving New Media
Frank Popper (interviewed conducted by Joseph Nechvatal) - Origins of Virtualism: An Interview with Frank Popper
Barbara Maria Stafford - Still Trapped in Transcendance. Coherence vs. the Lure of Elsewhere
Peter Weibel - The Allusive Eye. Illusion, Anti-Illusion, Allusion
Mediaart History WebsiteIt provides a useful list of Documentation Projects on:
Documentation Projects
Archiving the Avant Guarde -
Ars Electronica Archive -
ArtNine - Art of the Nineties -
CACHe -
Capturing Unstable Media / V2 -
Cinovid - database for experimental film and video art -
Database of Virtual Art -
Digital Game Archive -
Electronic Arts Intermix -
Foundation Daniel Langlois / CR+D Database -
Gallery 9 - Walker Art Center online exhibition space archives -
Heure Exquise -
iMediathek -
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Culture and Media Science -
Media Art Archive Vienna -
Media Files Austria -
MediaKunstNetz -
Net Art Datenbank -
Net Art Idea Line - Whitney Artport -
NETBASE t0 - Institute for New Culture Technologies -
Netherlands Media Art Institute Catalogue-
Netzspannung -
New Media Encyclopedia -
Rhizome ArtBase -
Rhizome -
Run Me - software art -
The Thing -
Variable Media Network -
Vektor - European Contemporary Art Archives -
VideoArt Danemark -
Video Data Bank -
Walker Art Collection -