Art and technology centres

Centres

• Access Space
• Ambient Space
• Area 10
• Art Today Association
• Atelier Nord
• Backspace
• Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
• BEK
• Burundi
• C-base
• CabFabLab
• CRAC
• Craslab
• CRASlab
• Cyberns
• Cyland
• De Balie
• Deckspace
• DigiLab AVU Prague
• E-Media Centre
• ESC
• FoAM
• Interspace
• Karaj
• Kawenga
• Kiberpipa
• Kibla
• Kitchen Budapest
• Kuda.org
• Lab3, Cologne
• LABinary
• LABoral
• Laboratoria
• LABoratory
• Ljudmila
• Lume
• M-cult
• MaMa
• Media Art Lab Kiev
• MediaArtLab
• Medialab Katowice
• Medialab Madrid
• Medialab Prado
• MediaLab Tallinn
• Medialab Warszawa
• Mediamatic
• MediaShed
• Metalab
• MMC Rijeka
• Moddr
• MoKS
• Muu Media Base
• MzTEK
• Nadine
• Net culture lab
• NoD Media Lab
• OKNO
• PiNG
• Plug.in
• Pro.ba
• Public Netbase/t0
• RIXC
• Tesla
• The Flying Desk
• V2
• Waag
• Werkleitz
• WORM
• WRO

Publications

• Stewart Brand, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT, New York: Viking, 1987, 285 pp.

• Access-Space.org, Grow Your Own Media Lab, Sheffield: Access Space, 2008, 116 pp.

• Clare Butcher, Angela Plohman (eds.), The Future of the Lab, Eindhoven: Baltan Laboratories, 2010, 128 pp. [1]

• Angela Plohman (ed.), A Blueprint for a Lab of the Future, Eindhoven: Baltan Laboratories, 2011, 343 pp. Essays: Atau Tanaka, Annet Dekker. Publisher. [2]

• Catherine Lenoble (ed.), MCD 62: L’Europe des Media labs: cartographie des lieux et réseaux / Media Labs in Europe, Mar-May 2011. [3] (French)/(English)

• Nederland Labland. Medialabs, FabLabs & Hackerspaces in Nederland, Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2012, 104 pp. (Dutch)
  • The New Explorers Guide to Dutch Digital Culture: Medialabs, Game Companies & Festivals in the Netherlands, eds. Michel Langendijk and Tijmen Schep, Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, Dec 2012, 191 pp. [4]

• Charlotte Frost, "Media Lab Culture in the UK", Furtherfield, London, 28 Aug 2012.

• Maya Livio, Lori Emerson, "Towards Feminist Labs: Provocations for Collective Knowledge-Making", in The Critical Makers Reader: (Un)learning Technology, eds. Loes Boger and Letizia Chiappini, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2019, pp 286-297.

• Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson, Jussi Parikka, The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies, University of Minnesota Press, 2022, x+333 pp.

Resources

• Questionnaire on self-sustainable media culture practice, conducted by RIXC Riga, 2001.
• LABtoLAB, a network of media labs set up by Constant Brussels, Kitchen Budapest, Medialab-Prado Madrid, and PiNG Nantes, 2009-11.
• Mappa, medialabs mapped. A collaborative project of Fiction Lab, ThingTank and Kitchen Budapest.
• The Feminist Labs Project. Organized by Maya Livio, Lori Emerson, and Thea Lindquist.

See also

Hacker spaces, Fab labs