Platforms
For artists', community, exhibition, experimental and feminist platforms, archives and databases
Contents
1990s[edit]
East.Art.Map, 2004
Media Art Net, 2004
Transitland, 2009
Gender Check, 2009
Atlas of Transformation, 2010
Living as Form, Archive of Socially Engaged Practices from 1991-2011, 2011
Curatorial Dictionary, 2012–
Glossary of Common Knowledge, 2018–
Forgotten Heritage, 2018–
Secondary Archive, 2021–
Artist publishing[edit]
- REDIRECT Artist publishing
Community radio[edit]
20ft Radio "broadcasts music from the container based in former ribbon-weaving factory “Strichka” in Kyiv." Est. 2017.
Radio 80000 "A non-commercial community radio, streaming live every day from 8am till midnight from ZIRKA in the north of Munich, Germany. Founded in 2015, it has evolved to a platform promoting collaboration and cultural expression through music, dialogue and events throughout Germany."
Radio AlHara, broadcasting out of Bethlehem, Palestine. Est. 2020.
Radio Aparat, "24/7 online radio station based in an adapted garage of an old private house in Belgrade, Serbia." Est. 2016.
Black Rhino Radio, "project promoting artists, music, and the culture behind the sound." Based in Bucharest.
Radio Campus "was founded in 1980 on the campus of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. With around fifty programmes, it brings together more than 100 presenters, technicians and collaborators around shared values: free, constructive expression, a strong attachment to the social fabric of Brussels and a boundless love of musical and cultural diversity."
Radio Carbono, 24-hour web radio, Argentina. Since 2019.
Cashmere Radio is a community experimental radio station based in Wedding, Berlin. Broadcasting underground music, talk shows and live performative arts. Est. 2015.
Radio Centraal, community radio in Antwerp. Est. 1980.
Radio Corax "is a free non-commercial radio station in Halle and has been available since 2000 between Leipzig and Magdeburg via VHF on 95.9 MHz and worldwide via Internet livestream. The programme is produced by around 300 people in their spare time or during their internships."
DFM RTV INT "is an Independent Internet FreeForm Radio Station whereof it's members broadcast live from their Home Studios and/or the DFM Studio in Amsterdam. Also live broadcasts from locations like alternative bars, parties, concerts and events.
Dublab, non-profit, radio station based in Los Angeles, with affiliate stations internationally. Est. 1999.
Fango Radio, community radio based in Tuscany, Italy. Est. 2019.
Radio Galère, community radio in Marseille. Est. 1978. [1]
Gasoline Radio is "a non-commercial media platform, based in Kyiv. Its main goal is to disseminate Ukrainian culture and bring together artists, DJ's and activists in Kyiv and beyond."
Good Times Bad Times, community radio in Rotterdam. Est. 2020. Archived shows.
Radio Grenouille, "Marseille's cultural and campus radio station. Since 1981 on 88.8 FM."
Radio Helsinki. Freies Radio Graz. Starting out as a pirate radio station in 1992, Radio Helsinki became the first free radio station in Austria to broadcast legally in 1995. Based in Graz.
"Founded in 2016, Hong Kong Community Radio (HKCR) is a community platform and independent radio station comprised of creators, musicians, artists and fans with aims to broadcast and support independent works as an open platform."
Radio Kapitał is "a community-based, Internet radio station that broadcasts 24/7. It is a platform for social and artistic dialogue, presenting programs on culture, society, history, literature, art and music in a wide variety of genres." Est. 2019 in Warsaw.
kchung is an artist run co-operative and community radio station based in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Since 2011, kchung has pursued a distributed, affinity-based structure that promotes open participation and curatorial collaboration."
Kiosk Radio is "an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. A meeting point for music freaks from Brussels and beyond. A tiny kiosk bar serving eclectic music and drinks." Est. 2017.
KUNSTRADIO -- "every sunday - Ö1 - 11:03 pm - 11:59 pm (CEST) - & Online -- RADIOKUNST." Since 1987.
Lahmacun Radio is "an online music & more radio from Budapest." Est. 2018.
The Lake Radio, non-profit online and international focused radio station, driven by artists and musicians. Based in Copenhagen.
Lumpen Radio is "a non-profit, community radio station located in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago. Broadcasting throughout throughout Chicago at 105.5FM and anywhere online. WLPN-LP is operated by a community of volunteers: DJs, curators, producers, writers and organizers." Est. 2015.
Manila Community Radio (MCR) is "an independent platform empowering underrepresented voices to experiment with self-publishing and radio broadcasting." Est. 2020.
Montez Press Radio is an experimental broadcasting and performance platform. Est. 2018.
Radio Multe 93.8fm is a community and experimental FM + online radio station broadcasting from various locations in Bergen, Norway. Est. 2021. Listen. [2]
Mutant Radio is "a media platform that focuses on various directions: mixes, interviews, educational shows, live performances and discusssion broadcasts that are either live-streamed or filmed and streamed later on. The physical station is a fully-equipped caravan-wagon that is based in Tbilisi yet also streams from other regions and special locations around Georgia." Est. 2019.
Noods Radio is "an independent radio station broadcasting from Bristol's Stokes Croft. Founded in 2015 and born from Sunday morning music sessions, the station has grown to become the home of faces from around the globe."
Radio Nopal, a "collective internet radio station, located in the San Rafael neighborhood of Mexico City. We broadcast using free technology, a device called Mensajito, which allows us to create an internet radio station without the use of conventional computers."
norrm, online radio broadcasting from Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Est. 2017.
NTS Radio "provides curious minds with a home for music discovery. Broadcasting music from over 50 cities around the globe, NTS platforms artists through radio and creative projects." Est. 2011.
radiOrakel, "the world's oldest women's radio." Est. 1982, Oslo.
ORANGE 94.0, "non-profit community radio station rooted in Vienna, important in fostering media plurality throughout Austria since its inception in 1998."
Paddygrooves Radio, broadcasting every Tuesday from Bali, Indonesia
Palanga Street Radio is "an independent DIY community radio based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Our mission is to create a networking-arts platform for music lovers locally and online. We foster a colourful & garshful cultural environment, making sound splashes on the oceans of internet since 2017."
Pan African Space Station (PASS) is "a periodic, pop-up live radio studio; a performance and exhibition space; a research platform and living archive, as well as an ongoing, internet based radio station." Est. 2008 in South Africa.
Radio Panik "is a free radio station that defines itself as an associative radio station for expression and creation and as a multi- and intercultural radio station. It was founded in 1983 by a group of people campaigning against racism and for human rights." Brussels.
Radio Papesse, "art and radio on demandl; an online audio archive devoted to contemporary art; a place for the documentation and the articulation of a critical discourse around the visual arts and at the same time a radio project dedicated to sound art production and distribution." Est. 2006 in Firenze.
Radio Plato is an independent internet radio based in Minsk. It has been fiery dedicated, musically diverse, community-focused and what really matters: independent. Est. 2018.
∏-node is "an experimental platform for the development of an hybrid web/FM/DAB+ radio format. Through the interlinking of different approaches, tools, technologies and networks a decentralised broadcast structure is established where each of the network’s nodes serves to both receive and transmit information."
Radio Punctum is "Prague based community radio station. Broadcasting 24/7."
Rádio Quântica is "a Lisbon-based community radio station established in 2015, and developed with a diverse group of artists and crews – a safe haven where the voices of underground artists and activists can be heard."
Radio Relativa, Madrid experimental radio. Est. 2018.
Resonance is "a 24/7 radio station which broadcasts on 104.4 FM to central London, DAB to Greater London, nationally on Radioplayer and live streamed to the rest of the world. Realised by a dedicated community of volunteer engineers and programme-makers, Resonance offers over 105 creative broadcast series every week." Est. 2002.
Sphere Radio "is a non-commercial, interdisciplinary and free radio platform from the east of Leipzig."
Radio Študent "was founded in 1969 to give a voice to students and under-represented groups in society." Ljubljana.
radio.syg.ma, "community platform for mixes, podcasts, live recordings and releases by independent musicians, sound artists and collectives."
Systems Radio is a studio-free, nomadic online radio that broadcasts a range of sonic encounters, branching through music, podcasts, interviews, audio documentaries and concept pieces. Every Monday evening from London, Vienna and more, *2020.
Tilos Radio FM 90.3 is "• interactive • commercial-free • independent, diversified • non-profit, public and transparent • caters for all musical audiences • socially aware, and in touch with listeners • a forum of the past, present and future generations." Est. 1991 in Budapest.
Tīrkultūra / Unexpected Sources Audio Gallery is "a global broadcasting platform streaming 24/7 sound and radio art, weird and wonderful, innovative, experimental music." Est. 2014 in Riga.
Radio Tsonami, radio station focused on soundscape and experimental radio broadcasting 24 hours a day. Valparaíso, Chile.
Varia Narrowcast is "an orbiting broadcasting channel for the physical public events at Varia, Rotterdam." Est. 2021.
Vers Libre is "a community radio station based in Bergen and run by volunteers."
Western Front Media Archive of various programming streams of Western Front, Vancouver, including the Media Artist in Residence program, New Music, Exhibitions and Performance Art.
WFMU, "Independent freeform radio broadcasting at 91.1 and 91.9 fm in New Jersey and New York City, and at 90.1 and 91.9 fm in the Hudson Valley, with gobs of online offerings." Est. 1958.
Radio WORM "is an online radio platform at the heart of WORM Rotterdam. Our studio hosts audio production of all descriptions, with over 80 resident shows as well as a shifting schedule of one-off events, mini-series and special guests." Restarted in 2019. [3]
radio x, "the city radio station in Frankfurt am Main. Around 400 citizens from Frankfurt, Offenbach and the surrounding area, united in around 90 independent editorial teams, create a varied programme away from the mainstream." Est. 1997.
yamakan.place, independent broadcasters from Beirut, Tunis, Palestine and other locations across North Africa and the Middle East.
Radio Zinzine Aix, radio libre d'Aix en Provence. Est. 1998. [4]
Community television[edit]
- 858.ma, an archive of resistance. Created in 2018 by the Mosireen Collective, a nonprofit media collective, as an “initiative to make public all the footage shot and collected since 2011” regarding the Egyptian Revolution.
- bak.ma, a participatory video archiving site seeking to create a living memory of the social movements. Created in Turkey in 2014.
- Guerrilla Television Network "provides an access point to thousands of videos from archival collections all over the world. These collections include the work of a diverse, varied community of artists, activists, and journalists made on videotape during the Guerrilla Television movement, roughly 1968-1980." Project led by Media Burn Archive and University of Chicago.
- London Community Video Archive (LCVA), preserves the work of the Community Video movement in the 1970s and 80s, in London and the South East. Based at Goldsmiths University and the BFI. YouTube. Vimeo.
- Maqam.tv, an itinerant broadcast channel airing video content from North Africa and South to Central Asia. [5]
- Media Burn Archive, Chicago. The website features a digital archive of videos from the 1950s onward. "The collection forms an unmatched portrait of 20th and 21st century American life, created by individuals with a deeply rooted commitment to increasing our understanding of other human beings and communities." [6] [7]
- Preserving Guerilla Television: TVTV, BAMPFA, University of California. Digital collections. [8]
- TV Free Europe, artist project, 2020-2021. "A Tele- Theatre Vision, an international collaboration encompassing the fields of performance and multimedia art, cultural heritage and art education. What happened to the hopes of freedom after the end of the Cold War? What does free Europe mean today? What can liberate you at all in times of a global pandemic? And what’s up with the borders?" With Pneuma Szöv. a.o.,
- UKRAiNATV, "an experimental, collective and cross-sectoral project in the field of media culture. It deals with new relational strategies and new HYBRiD production forms in the field of hybrid PRESENCE. It’s an Internet TV station specialized in building live audiovisual bridges, a multi-channel streaming hub, recording studio and glocal network, all at once." Est. 2022. Affiliated with the Faculty of Intermedia of the Academy of Fine Arts Kraków.
- Van Gogh TV research project, 2018-2021. Exhibition (2021). Online companion.
- Video Activism 2.0, research project on the attention strategies of video activism on the social web.
- Video Digest Magazine, 2023. The online magazine "initiated by Videonale and IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute takes up impulses from historical video magazines (such as Infermental, Video Congress or Zapp Magazine) and uses a series of dialogically presented current works to examine the resistant potential of moving images in various communication channels from a contemporary perspective. The newly commissioned videos, performances and zines by Ji Su Kang-Gatto, Ayesha Hameed, Becket MWN, Rangwane and Leyla Yenirce (in collaboration with Mazlum Nergiz) make use of diverse languages and strategies of protest and mobilization (but also of apathy and resignation) and reflect a current video landscape shaped by on-demand smart TVs, YouTube/Youku, TikTok and Instagram." Booklet PDF.
East Central Europe[edit]
For a critical, decolonial, ecological, experimental, feminist, political and queer practice and theory in East Central Europe
3/4, magazine for culture, art, creativity and society in the era of deepfakes, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, *2000. (Slovak),(English)
Artalk, online magazine on contemporary visual art, Brno/Prague, Bratislava, *2008. (Czech),(Slovak)
Arterritory, website on Baltic, Russian and Scandinavian art and culture, Riga, *2011. (Latvian),(English),(Russian)
Arts of the Working Class, street journal on poverty and wealth, art and society, Berlin, *2018. (English),(multiple languages)
Artyčok, international online platform focusing on the emerging artistic practice, Prague, *2005. (Czech)/(English)
Aspekt, feminist educational and publishing organisation, Bratislava, *1993. (Slovak),(Czech),(English)
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, database on women artists born between 1790 and 1972 working in visual arts with no limitations on medium or country, Paris, *2014. (French)/(English)
Central European Art Database (CEAD), online database of visual arts and culture of Central Europe after WWII, Olomouc: Olomouc Museum of Art, *2014. (multiple languages)
D'EST, contemporary video art platform that maps out artistic reflections of post-socialist transformations along feminist, post-geographic and decolonial lines of inquiry, Berlin: District, *2016. (English)
Easterndaze, project that explores and highlights new music from Central and Eastern Europe through a variety of channels, including radio shows, concerts, music releases and a blog, *2009. (English)
Echo Gone Wrong, online daily on representing Baltic contemporary art scenes, Vilnius, *2011. (English)
Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition, Prague: Nadace Prague Biennale, and Bratislava: PILOT, *2006. (Czech),(Slovak),(English)
IP — Institutul Prezentului / The Institute of the Present, research and an artist resource platform in visual and performing culture, Bucharest, *2017. (Romanian),(English)
L'Internationale Online, platform for research and debate on urgent matters in the expanded field of contemporary art, *2014. (English)
Kajet Journal, magazine dedicated to stories from across Eastern Europe, Bucharest, *2017. (English)
Korydor, online magazine about contemporary culture, Kyiv: Contemporary Art Centre Foundation, *2010. (Ukrainian),(English)
LeftEast, place where various voices, efforts and groups from around the region, broadly understood, come together in a sustained analytical and political effort, *2013, [9]. (English)
nettime-l, communication space by and for people who like to discuss networked cultures, policies, and tactics, *1995. (English)
Obieg, international online magazine, Warsaw: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, *2016. (Polish),(English)
post: notes on art in a global context: Central & Eastern Europe, online resource devoted to art and the history of modernism, New York: Museum of Modern Art (C-MAP), *2013. Exhibition 2014. (English)
Revista ARTA, magazine on Romanian contemporary art scene, Bucharest: Romanian Artists' Union, 1954-1993, *2010. (Romanian),(English)
Secondary Archive, platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe, Warsaw: Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation, *2021. (English),(multiple languages)
springerin. Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, quarterly magazine dedicated to the theory and critique of contemporary art and culture, Vienna, *1995 (German),(English)
SZUM, magazyn poświęcony sztuce współczesnej w Polsce i Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej, Warsaw: Fundacja Kultura Miejsca, *2013. (Polish)
Videogram, lecture series on contemporary modes of art, curatorial and artistic practice and theory, Brno: Faculty of Fine Arts, *2009. (English)
- See also
Feminist art[edit]
- AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions, Paris, *2014. (French)/(English)
- Feminist Art Base, a digital archive of activity by artists from the 1960s to the early 2000s; built and hosted by Brooklyn Museum, New York (2007-2014).
- Feminist Art Coalition (FAC), a platform for art projects informed by feminisms*.
- Instituto Susch, long-term research programme on works of women artists from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Muzeum Susch, *2016/2023. (German)/(English)
- n.paradoxa list of exhibition catalogues of feminist art and contemporary women artists (post-1970), London: KT press, ongoing.
- Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2017. Exhibition and digital archive that presents the work of 120 women artists and collectives active in Latin America and the United States during a key period in Latin American history and the development of contemporary art
- re.act.feminism, an archive and research project exploring feminism(s) and performance art, *2008.
- Secondary Archive, platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe, Warsaw: Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation, *2021. (English)/(multiple languages)
- !Women Art Revolution: Voices of a Movement, video interviews with artists and critics chronicling the founding years of the feminist art movement in the 1970s
Net art[edit]
- 2020 Do Not Link, group exhibition, Upstream Gallery, 12-28 Jun 2020. Curated by Dirk Paesmans and Bob Bicknell-Knight.
- äda 'web, platform for online artworks, experimental literature, publishing, and exhibitions. Run by Benjamin Weil and collaborators, 1994-1998. äda 'web in Net Art Anthology (2019).
- Artport. Whitney Museum's portal to Internet art and an online gallery space for commissions of net art and new media art. Originally launched in 2001, Artport provides access to original art works commissioned specifically for artport by the Whitney; documentation of net art and new media art exhibitions at the Whitney; and new media art in the Museum's collection. Created and curated by Christiane Paul. Made an official part of the Whitney Museum collection in 2015. [11]
- BAMPFA NetArtchive, online exhibition. Presented works by four artists. (archived)
- The Broken Timeline (TBT) presents historical exhibition projects that were curated online. Inevitably partial and subjective, TBT burrows back in time to present a lineage of web-based curatorial projects that are too often unseen, neglected or ignored by the mainstream artworlds and their discourses. TBT was compiled by Marialaura Ghidini, Gaia Tedone and Annet Dekker. Published by Valiz, Amsterdam in 2022.
- Conflict in My Outlook: We Met Online, online exhibition, University of Queensland Art Museum, 21 Aug 2020-1 Mar 2022. Curated by Anna Briers.
- curating.online, an ongoing research space dedicated to exploring and stimulating practical thinking about curatorial work on the web by Marialaura Ghidini, *2021.
- Czech net art, Webarchiv, National Library of the Czech Republic.
- Digital Canon, 20 works from the Netherlands, 1960-2000, launched 2019 by LI-MA.
- E.space, online projects commissioned by SFMOMA. Launched 2000. Created by Benjamin Weil with Joseph Rosa. (archived) [12]
- Gallery 9, Walker Art Center's online exhibition space. Between 1997 and 2003, under the direction of Steve Dietz, Gallery 9 presented the work of more than 100 artists.
- Gallery 404, exhibits net.art as it appears today - exclusively specializing in broken artworks, launched Nov 2020, run by David Schmudde. [13]
- Garage Digital, online program for born-digital artworks and research projects created in collaboration with Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2019-. [14]
- Guggenheim net art commissions, 1996-c.2002. (archived)
- Histories of Internet Art: Fictions and Factions, an online-only exhibition of the early history of Internet art; produced by students of digital art at the University of Colorado's Art and Art History Department, in conjunction with the Alt-X Online Network, ATLAS and blurr.
- Links to net art, compiled by Jim Andrews (VISPO).
- net-art.org, an online-only exhibition of the early (and continuous) history of Internet art. Initiated 1998 by Andrew Forbes. Interview, 2001. Twitter. FB.
- Net Art Anthology. Presented by Rhizome, 2016-2019. Retelling the history of Net Art from the 1980s through the present day by restaging and contextualizing one key net art project per week. [15]
- net.artdatabase.org, documentation of selected internet-based artworks by recording users in front of their screens as they interact with the work.
- netart-Datenbank, est. 2000, active through c.2005. Team: Nina Kahnwald, Anna Kohler, Tilman Linden, Thomas Noesler, Sakrowski.
- netartdothu, internet art and internet culture in Hungary in the 1990s and 2000s. A research project by Flóra Barkóczi, launched 2025.
- netart_latino database, a database of Latin-American net artists. Edited by Brian Mackern.
- netartnet.net, an online-gallery listing and directory. The archive contains current and past exhibitions with dates, links, and press releases.
- Netarts.org, 1995-2014.
- NETescopio: net art viewer of the MEIAC museum, on-line archive in continual development dedicated to the conservation of works of art generated for the web, est. 2008.
- netpioneers.info: contextualizing early net-based art, research project realized at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research., Linz, 2007-2009. (archived). Book published.
- Net.Specific, an online exhibition space for net art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark. Launched Oct 2012.
- Network art projects and events, compiled by Dušan Barok, 2008. (archived)
- netzspannung.org, 2001-?. (archived)
- New Black Portraitures, browser-based exhibition, 2017. Curated by Aria Dean as part of Rhizome's Net Art Anthology. [16] [17]
- openAR, platform for AR art, featuring online exhibitions. Founded 2021 by Sakrowski and Jeremy Bailey.
- Pixel Plunder©, online exhibition on notions of authorship and copyright, curated by Michael Alstad and Michelle Kasprzak, 2001. [18] [19]
- project.Arnolfini, curated by Geoff Cox, 2010.
- Rhizome ArtBase, archive of digital art, freely accessible to the public online. Founded 1999. Catalog. Relaunch events (2021). Relaunch announcement. Original website (until 2021).
- runme.org, a software art repository, established in 2003. It is an open, moderated database to which people are welcome to submit projects they consider to be interesting examples of software art. Currently in archive mode.
- Sunrise/Sunset, series of Internet art projects commissioned by Whitney Museum, since 2009.
- Svensk Webbkonst, catalogue and award for the most beautiful Swedish websites, *2025.
- Tate Intermedia Art contains the archive of Tate's net art projects from 2000-2011. [20]
- Turbulence, a premiere web site for net art. From 1996-2016, Turbulence.org commissioned over 220 original net, web and hybrid art works and hosted over 20 real-time, multi-location performances.
- We=Link: Sideways, A Chronus Art Center (CAC) exhibition, Shanghai, 21 Nov 2020-23 Mar 2021. Curated by Ga Zhang. [21]
- We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces, Chronus Art Center Special Online Exhibition, since 30 Mar 2020. Curated by Ga Zhang. [22]
- Why Not Sneeze, eds. Michael Gibbs and Brigitte van der Sande, 1996-1998.
- The Wrong, digital art biennale, online & worldwide, since 2013. Incl. Very Large Works online show, 2019-2020.
Performance[edit]
- Fluxus & Happening, ed. Co Seegers.
- Black Kit Performer's Archive / Schwarze Lade, Cologne. Founded in 1981 as an archive for international performance art.
- Re.Act.Feminism: A Performing Archive, an archive and exhibition project on feminism and performance art. Curated by Beatrice E. Stammer and Bettina Knaup. The core archive contains more than 250 videos, photographs and other documentation of gender-oriented, feminist and queer performance art, from the 1960s to the early 1980s.
- Collecting the Performative: A research network examining emerging practice for collecting and conserving performance-based art, Tate London, Apr 2012-Jan 2014. Project leader: Pip Laurenson. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Recordings of talks. [23]
- Performance at Tate: Collecting, Archiving and Sharing Performance and the Performative, Oct 2014-Sep 2016. A major initiative aiming to research and document the role performance – in all its forms – has played in the history of modern and contemporary art at Tate since the 1960s. It looked at the museum’s practices of collecting, displaying, documenting and sharing performance and explored how performance practices have reframed conventional understanding of an art collection. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the twoyear project was a collaboration between the Centre for Intermedia at the Department of English at the University of Exeter and Tate. It was led by Professor Gabriella Giannachi, Catherine Wood (Senior Curator, International Art (Performance) and Jennifer Mundy (Head of Collection Research). PDF publication.
- Performing the East, a resource on performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960, operated by Amy Bryzgel.
- Performance Art in Eastern Europe (1950-1990), a research project coordinated by Sylvia Sasse, U Zurich; collaborators: Sylvia Sasse, Sabine Hänsgen, Tomáš Glanc, Kata Krasznahorkai. Funded by ERC. [24]
- Performing Arts in the Second Public Sphere, initiated by Katalin Cseh, Ludwig-Maximilians-U, and Adam Czirak, Free U Berlin. Funded by Erste.
- Action Art Beyond the Iron Curtain, a research project convened by Adam Czirak, Free U Berlin. Funded by the German Research Society (DFG).
- Glimpses of Before 1970s Performance Art in the UK. A study room guide compiled and edited by Helena Goldwater and produced by the Live Art Development Agency (LADA). The guide includes framing texts by Helena Goldwater and Dominic Johnson, as well as artists’ information and images, including links to online content and hard copy materials available in LADA’s Study Room, a free, open access research facility specialising in Live Art and Performance. Part of a larger series of research activities on Performance and Politics in the 1970s organised by Dominic Johnson and Nicholas Ridout of the the Department of Drama at Queen Mary, University of London (2015-16). PDF publication.
- Performance Perspectives, an archive of video interviews exploring performance art in Australia.
- The Performance Club, a platform for art criticism, ed. Claudia La Rocco.
- SiteWorks: San Francisco Performance 1969-85, a site-specific curation of archival remains of past ephemeral art and performance in the present city of San Francisco, ed. Nick Kaye.
- Between Evidence and Representation: History of Performance Art Documentation from 1970 to 1977. Conducted by Tancredi Gusman as principal investigator at the Institute of Theatre Studies of the Freie Universität in Berlin, and supervised by Erika Fischer-Lichte. Funded by EU-Horizon 2020.
- Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, Institute Materiality in Arts and Culture, Bern University of the Arts, Oct 2020-Sep 2024. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Project lead: Hanna B. Hölling. Colloquium to be held 2021.
Shadow libraries[edit]
Aesthetics of the Commons, book, 2021
Duchamp Is My Lawyer, book, 2020
Guerrilla Open Access, book, 2018
Happy birthday, Ubu.com!, 2016
In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub, open letter, 2015
Public Library, book, 2015
Public Library, video from conference, 2014
Public Library, video channel
Video[edit]
- 4:3, a film platform exploring themes of performance, identity, youth culture and anti-establishment. Run by Boiler Room since 2018.
- Artyčok, an international online platform focusing on the emerging artistic practice. Est. 2005, Prague.
- Le CiNéMa Club, a curated streaming platform screening one film every week, for free. It tends to screen often overlooked work from established filmmakers, though it also includes notable short works from the international festival circuit. Founded in 2015.
- D'Est, a contemporary video art platform that maps out artistic reflections of post-socialist transformations along feminist, post-geographic and decolonial lines of inquiry. Est. 2016, Berlin.
- Dérives autour du cinéma (Derives.tv), enables the free circulation of films, sounds, texts, images and documents. Authors distribute their films and texts, free to use. Est. 2007.
- dis is a media channel & community that spans art, politics, tech, theory, and pop culture, to foster a deeper understanding of future economic, social, and technological changes.
- e-flux Film presents curated programs of film, videos, and discursive events put together by e-flux and our collaborators across the world. Online as well at the e-flux Screening Room in Brooklyn, NY, it explores new ways of curating and sharing moving-images, situated between cinema, contemporary art, and theory.
- Hamaca, a platform for archiving, disseminating, and learning about contemporary audiovisual practices in Spain. Est. 2005.
- Kinet, a platform run by independent filmmakers presents works of experimental or avant-garde film periodically, notably drawing from filmmakers working outside existing filmmaking or academic structures. Est. 2016, Canada.
- labournet.tv, a free film platform for workers' struggles around the world, from the point of view of the workers themselves.
- LUXPLAYER. LUX, a London-based arts agency, offers both an online database of its film collection—from which institutions can order copies—and a streaming service. Its video-on-demand service LUXPLAYER offers films for a 48-hour digital rental, at US$4 a film, regardless of the runtime. Some of the films can be streamed for free within a limited window as well.
- Mediakunst.net, an online catalogue bringing together the media art collections of Frans Hals Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Van Abbemuseum, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) and LIMA. Run by LIMA since 2018.
- Pad.ma (Public Access Digital Media Archive), an online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films.
- Paik's Video Study. Nam June Paik’s video archives streaming system in an online environment. With 700 video works and 300 essays. Maintained by Nam June Paik Art Center. (Korean)/(English)
- rarefilmm, the cave of forgotten films.
- Sinemateka.lt: video art, digitally restored LT videos, c.2014.
- The Stream, Korean video art archive. [25] [26]
- UbuWeb: Film & Video, an online archive of the avant-garde. Est. 1996, New York.
- VDB TV is a digital distribution project which provides free, online streaming access to curated programs of video and media art. Sourced from the archives of the Video Data Bank, VDB TV includes work from early video pioneers active in the 1960s and 70s, through to emerging contemporary artists.
- Vdrome is an online cinema that offers regular, high quality screenings of films and videos directed by visual artists and filmmakers whose production lies in-between contemporary art and cinema. Launched 2013; on break since 2022.
- Videokunstarkivet (The Video Art Archive, Norway) is a reference archive for video works produced in Norway or with a connection to Norway from the 1960s and up to today. The online platform records about 3,000 registered works by more than 660 artists and artist groups, of which more than half is available for online viewing (after free registration).
Wikis[edit]
MediaWiki
dokuwiki
Wikibase
other
http://1010.co.uk/ (emacs org-mode)
@ Martin Howsehttps://damaged.bleu255.com/ (ikiwiki)
@ Marloes de Valkhttp://desk.org:8080/ (WikiWorks)
@ Walter van der Cruijsenhttp://en.wiki.oekonux.org/ (MoinMoin)
@ Oekonux Conferencehttps://permacomputing.net/ (ikiwiki)
@ Permacomputing
Index[edit]
- 1990s#research
- Artists publishing#Digital
- Community radio
- Community television#Platforms, projects, collections, resources
- East Central Europe#Platforms
- Feminist art#Platforms, resources
- net art#Digital exhibitions, platforms, archives
- Performance art#Research projects, resources
- Shadow libraries
- Video art#Platforms
- Wikis
