London

Spaces: Ambient Space, Apiary Studios, Banner Repeater artist-run reading room and project space (*2010), Barbican performing arts centre (*1982), Bökship bookshop and project space (*2008), Cafe OTO music venue (*2008), Call & Response sound arts space (*2012), Centre for Possible Studies (*2009), Close-Up film centre (*2005), Deckspace media lab (*2001), Donlon Books bookshop (*2008), Enclave artist-run infrastructure (*2012), Even (*2015), Flat Time House (*2008), Furtherfield (formerly HTTP, *2004), Gasworks visual art centre (*1994), Hayward Gallery (*1968), The Horse Hospital arts venue (*1993), Institute of Contemporary Arts (*1947), London Centre for Book Arts artist-run studio (*2012), LUX artists' moving image agency (*2002), MayDay Rooms archive and social space (*2013), noise=noise (since 2011), not/nowhere artist workers’ cooperative (*2018), no.w.here artist-run space (*2004), Raven Row exhibition centre (*2009), Raylab, Res. gallery and workspace (*2015), Reference.Point, Rio Cinema (*1976), Serpentine Galleries (*1970, *2013), The Showroom art space (*1983), Somerset House Studios workspace (*2016), SPACE artist studios (*1968), Tenderbooks artist publishing space (*c2009), Ti Pi Tin artist-run project space for artists' publishing (*2009), Total Refreshment Centre music venue (*2012) [1], Vinyl Deptford record store, Watermans arts centre (*1978), Whitechapel Gallery (*1901), Work gallery and event space (*2011), more: [2], [3], [4]
Past spaces: LimaZulu artist-run project space (*c.2009-2016), MzTEK (2009-14), area 10 (2008-?), The Shunt Lounge night-time art space (2006-2010), rampART social centre (2004-2009), E:vent Gallery (2003-2011), The Foundry (2000-2010), Lux Centre (1997-2001), Backspace (1996-1999), Artec centre (1990-2000), Gallery House (1972-73). More.
See also: London Bookshop Map of independent bookshops (*2011), London Sound Survey (*2008).

Initiatives (with no permanent event venue): ambientTV.NET (*1999), Arika, body-data-space (*2005), Book Works (*1984), Catalyst Radio network (*2010), Cenatus CIC (*2005), Cinenova (*2001), Common Practice advocacy group (*2009), DEMO Moving Image Experimental Politics curatorial platform (*2019) [5], Deptford.TV, East London Sound Ensemble, Kino Fist film collective, Live Algorithms for Music (*2004), London Fieldworks (*2000), LuckyPDF (*2009) [6], open_digi (*2002), Soundcamp (*2013), SPC (*1996), UKUUG (*1976), xxxxx (*2006), YOHA, more: http://nodel.org/orgs.php
Past initiatives: Robots And Avatars (2007-2014), Openlab (2005-2012), shinkansen/Future Physical (1989-2004), Orphan Drift (1994-2003), London Video Arts (later London Electronic Arts, 1976-2001), Antiuniversity of London (1968), London Film-Makers' Co-op (1966-2001).

Festivals: pic.london (*2017), Antiuniversity Now (*2015), Flossie, Calling Out Of Context (*2009), Netaudio (since 2006), NODE.London (2006, 2008), Atlantic Waves (*2001), Cybersonica (*2006), Cut and Splice (*2003), Deptford X (*1998).
Past festivals: Open Season (2005), DMZ media arts festival (2003), Extreme Computing (2002).
Events: Artist Self-Publishers' Fair (*2015), Soundcamp/Reveil (*2014), FutureFest (*2014), Noise=Noise (2007, 2012), Signal:Noise (*2011), Art of Digital London meetup (*2011), London Girl Geek Dinners (*2005), Cybersalon (*2005), Dorkbot London (*2001), Interlace (*2002), LAM Conference (*2004), Le Placard (since 2003), Openlab (*2005), OpenTech (*2005).
Past events: LowTechLab London (2016), Redecentralize Conference (2015), Public 2.0 conference (2011), Decoding the Digital (2010), Ideas Before Their Time symposium (2010), Reboot (2008), Computational Creativity (2007), Re-transmission (2006), Netaudio (2006), Her Noise (2005), Open Tech 2005, WSFII (2005), ISMIR conference (2005), NotCon '04, N01se (2000), Expo Destructo (1999), Art Servers Unlimited (1998), Anti with E (1997).
Past exhibitions: Oramics to Electronica (2012), Digital Pioneers (2009-2010), Disclosures (2008), Art for Networks (2002), Cybernetic Serendipity (1968).

Media: Fluid Radio, Furtherfield (*1996), Mute Magazine (*1994), NTS Radio (*2011), Onoma Research, OpenMute server, Resonance FM radio (*2002), The Wire music magazine (*1982).

Academy programs: Centre for Digital Music ELEC QMUL, Electronic Music Studios Goldsmiths (*1968), Interactive Media Goldsmiths, Cultural Studies PhD Goldsmiths, Creating Social Media Goldsmiths.

Art workers: Adnan Hadzi, Alastair Bonnett, Aleksander Kolkowski, Alex McLean, Ami Clarke, Andrew Forbes, Anna Engelhardt, Anthony Davies, Anthony Iles, Aura Satz, Benedict Drew, Caroline Heron, Chun Lee, Claude Heiland-Allen, Daniel Kordík (1976), Daniela Cascella, Dubravka Sekulić, Eleni Ikoniadou, Emilie Giles, Fabian Tompsett, Gabriel Menotti (1983), Gary Hall, Geraint Wiggins (1962), Ghislaine Boddington, Gio D'Angelo, Gordana Novakovic, Graham Harwood, Heath Bunting (1966), Ilze Black (1973), Irit Rogoff, Jackie Hatfield, James Stevens, Janis Jefferies, Jo Walsh, Joana Chicau, John Hill, John M. Bowers, Jonathan Kemp, Joseph Hyde, Kaffe Matthews (1961), Karen Di Franco, Katie Paterson (1981), Knut Aufermann, Kodwo Eshun, Laura Grace Ford, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lina Džuverović, Lisa Haskel, Lozana Rossenova, Luci Eyers, Luciana Parisi, Manu Luksch (1970), Mariana Marangoni, Mark Peter Wright, Martin Howse, Matthew Fuller, Miriyam Aouragh, Monika Šubrtová (1978), Nicholas Thoburn (1970), Pete Gomes, Peter Ride, Rachel Baker, Ryan Jordan, Sarah Washington, Salomé Voegelin, Saul Albert, Shu Lea Cheang, Simon Pope (1966), Sophie Clements, Sophie MacDonald, Steve Rushton, Steven Ball (1960), Thomson & Craighead, Tim Jones, Toni Prug, William Raban, Wojciech Kosma (1981)
RIP: Diann Bauer (1972-2022).

Publications

• Armin Medosch, "London.zip, Digital Media Art In London", 2003.

• Dominique Moulon, "Media Art in London", 2009.

• Anna Harding (ed.), Artists in the City: SPACE in ’68 and Beyond, London: Space Studios, 2018. Review: Berry (Mute). [7]

• Jo Applin, Catherine Spencer, Amy Tobin (eds.), London Art Worlds: Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks, 1960–1980, Penn State University Press, 2018, 248 pp, PDF. Publisher.

• Anthony Iles, Inventory's Paper Assembly: Fierce Sociology, Sovereignty and Self-Organisation in London’s Small Press Publishing Scene 1995 to 2005, London: Middlesex University, 2019, 594 pp. PhD thesis. [8]

• David Rosenberg, Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History, 2nd ed., Pluto Press, 2019.

• Lisa Tickner, London's New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s, Paul Mellon Centre, 2020, 416 pp. Publisher. Preview.

• Charlie Gere, World’s End, London: Goldsmiths Press, 2022, 208 pp. Publisher.

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