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For artists', community, exhibition, experimental and feminist platforms, archives and databases

1990s[edit]

Artist publishing[edit]

Community radio[edit]

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.
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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)


Art Antiques, měsíčník o umění, architektuře, designu a starožitnostech, *2002. (Czech)


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)


Artportal, magazine on arts, cultural politics and art market, Budapest, *2003. (Hungarian)


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)


BLOK, contemporary art magazine focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, Warsaw, *2018. (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)


Decolonizing Eastern Europe, discussion group (Facebook), *2020. (English)


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)


Glissando, music magazine, Warsaw: Fundacja 4.99, *2004. (Polish)


Glosolália, gender-oriented quarterly, Bratislava, *2012. (Slovak),(Czech)


IDEA artă + societate, magazine, Cluj, *1999 (until 2002 as Balkon). (Romanian),(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)


Kapitál, critical cultural monthly, Bratislava, *2017. (Slovak),(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)


Mezosfera, magazine on art and culture, Budapest: tranzit.hu, *2016. (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)


Qartal, Prague City Gallery magazine, Prague: GHMP, *2021. (Czech),(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)


spectre, mailing list for media art and culture in Deep Europe, *2001. (English)


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)


Vono (ВОНО), independent art paper, Kyiv, *2016. (Ukrainian),(English)


See also

Feminist art[edit]

  • 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).
  • Instituto Susch, long-term research programme on works of women artists from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Muzeum Susch, *2016/2023. (German)/(English)
  • 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)

Net art[edit]

  • 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]
  • 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.
  • Czech net art, Webarchiv, National Library of the Czech Republic.
  • 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.
  • Garage Digital, online program for born-digital artworks and research projects created in collaboration with Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2019-. [14]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • netartnet.net, an online-gallery listing and directory. The archive contains current and past exhibitions with dates, links, and press releases.
  • Net.Specific, an online exhibition space for net art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark. Launched Oct 2012.
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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]
  • Why Not Sneeze, eds. Michael Gibbs and Brigitte van der Sande, 1996-1998.

Performance[edit]

Shadow libraries[edit]

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)
  • 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).

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