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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!
Ryszard W. Kluszczyński - After Brunelleschi, after Alberti…
Lev Manovich – Abstraction and Complexity
W.J.T Mitchell - There Are No Visual Media
Frank Popper (interviewed conducted by Joseph Nechvatal) - Origins of Virtualism: An Interview with Frank Popper
Mediaart History Website

It 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 -

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