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This is Monoskop, a collaborative wiki research on social history of media art and culture.

Monoskop

Since the launch in 2004, several entry points to research have been developed.

Local histories

	Cities alternative base
Amsterdam, Bergen, Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Kyiv, London, New York City, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rotterdam, Seoul, Tokyo, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb

Media and themes

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Theories and definitions

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Categories

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Focus on central and eastern Europe

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Latest news

• Monoskop wiki now supports embedding videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Google Video, UStream, and basically any publicly accessible website (using HTML5 video tag), as well as documents from Google Books, Scribd, and SlideShare, image searches and slideshows from Flickr, and stills from Google Maps and Google Street View. See MediaWikiWidgets manual to learn how. (Nov 2011)
• Entry about Electromagnetism (May 2011)
• Entry about SuperCollider (September 2010)
• Entry about Film labs (June 2010)
• Entry about Hauntology (May 2010)
• Entry about Surf clubs (April 2010)
• Currently working on the book: Collaborative research on media art and culture in Central and Eastern Europe (2009)
• Realising there are almost 100 users or so registered, we did small improvements in user profiles. Using your profile (find here) you can now share what you have been working on, message others, etc. (28 July 2008)

Sister projects

• Monoskop/ram, visual references for the history of media art in Central and Eastern Europe, http://monoskopram.tumblr.com/
• Monoskop/log, living archive of writings on media art histories and network culture, http://burundi.sk/monoskop/log

Related resources

• MediaArtHistories, a blog dedicated to discussing the study of Media Art Histories, http://mediaarthistories.blogspot.com
• Dead Media Project, http://www.deadmedia.org/
• compArt Database of Early Computer Art, http://dada.compart-bremen.de/
• cyberneticzoo.com, a history of cybernetic animals and early robots, http://cyberneticzoo.com/
• "Prehystories of New Media" class at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2008, instructor: Nina Wenhart, http://prehystories.blogspot.com/
• Prehysteries of New Media, Nina Wenhart's collection of resources on the various histories of new media art. it is the base for a forthcoming book, http://prehysteries.blogspot.com/
• GenderArtNet, experimental mapping project exploring the interrelation of gender, ethnicity, race, class and sexualities in contemporary Europe, http://genderartnet.constantvzw.be/emerge/
• Archeologia mediów, czyli mgliste początki, Joanna Walewska, (Polish), http://malpawalewska.wordpress.com/
• Dr. Reinhold Grether's Media Arts List (Netzwissenschaft), rescued by Golan Levin, 2008. [1]
• Rosalind, new media art lexicon, http://www.furtherfield.org/rosalind/
• NOMAD aims to produce a curricular history of the teaching of media art in Australian higher education, as well as facilitating socially networked exchange of ideas and examples of current practices. http://nomad.net.au; MASS, media/electronic art scoping study is an overview of the current and pioneering educators, artists and scientists who have brought about the dissolution of boundaries that have traditionally existed between the artistic and technological disciplines. http://mass.nomad.net.au/
• Monoskop @kyberia, http://kyberia.sk/id/2904224 (in Slovak)

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