New York City

Spaces

• 98 Bowery, 1969-1989
• ABC No Rio, *1980 [1], [2]
• A.I.R., artist-run exhibition space for women artists, *1972
• Anthology Film Archives, *1970
• Art in General, *1981
• Artists Space, *1972
• Babycastles, *2009
• BHQFU, artist-run school, *2010
• Bitforms, gallery, *2001
• Bluestockings, bookstore cafe and activist center, *1999
• Cabinet, magazine and events, *2000, Log
• Central Booking, *2009
• CUE Art Foundation, *2002
• The Current Museum of Art, *2016
• Danspace Project, *1974
• The Drawing Center, museum, *1977
• EFA Project Space, arts venue, *2008
• e-flux
• Electronic Arts Intermix, *1971
• Elsewhere, live music venue
• nightclub and arts space, *2014
• Flux Factory, *1993
• Franklin Furnace, *1976
• The Free Black Women's Library, *2015
• Genspace, community biolab, *2009
• Gowanus Studio Space, cooperative workspace, *2007
• happylucky no.1, space for art and music, *2015
• Harvestworks
• Industry City, *2009
• Interference Archive, *2011
• The Invisible Dog Art Center, *2009
• Issue Project Room, performance venue, *2003
• The Kitchen, *1971
• Knockdown Center, art center and performance space, *2012
• Light Industry, film and electronic art venue, *2008
• Metrograph, movie theatre, *2015
• Miriam, artist-run gallery and bookshop, *2019.
• No-Space, *2004
• Participant Inc, alternative art space, *2001
• Performance Space New York, *1980/2018
• Pioneer Works, culture centre, *2014
• Playground Coffee Shop & Annex, community space and bookstore
• Prime Produce, multi-use space, *2018
• Printed Matter, art space & artists books, *1976
• Reanimation Library
• Recess, *2009
• Reverse, art space, *2012
• School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), artist-run school, *2013
• SculptureCenter, *1928
• Soft Surplus, *2018
• Spectacle, collectively-run screening space, *2010
• The Stone, improvised music venue, *2005, [3]
• Storefront for Art and Architecture, *1982
• Wendy's Subway, library and workspace, *2013
• White Columns, alternative art space, *1970

• Past spaces: 112 Greene Street (1970-).
• more: Art Spaces Archives Project, Alternatives in Retrospect: An Historical Overview 1969-1975, [4] [5], [6], [7], [8], [9].

Initiatives with no permanent event venue

• Avant.org, *2014
• Blank Forms, curatorial platform for performance, *2016
• Clocktower Radio, all-art online museum radio station, *2003
• Common Practice New York, advocacy group, *2012
• Cybernetics Library, *2017
• Deep Lab, *2015
• Hyphen-Labs
• Living Room Light Exchange New York, *2016
• Primary Information, *2006
• Rhizome, *1996
• Signal Culture, *2012
• UbuWeb, avant-garde arts resource, *1996
• Unbag, *2017, Log
• W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy), *2008
• WFMU, independent freeform radio, *1958
• Past initiatives: ART/new York (video magazine on art, *1981) [10], Collaborative Projects Inc. (Colab) (*1978), Institute for Art and Urban Resources (IAUR, *1971).

Events

• !!Con, conference, *2014
• Platform Cooperativism, conference, *2015
• Radical Networks, conference, *2015
• Software for Artists (S4AD), annual event, *2015, [11]
• Theorizing the Web, since 2013
• Event listings: Nonsense NYC, Screen Slate, The Skint.

Past events

• Cybernetics Conference, 2017, videos
• Alternative Art School Fair, 2016
• alt-AI, 2016
• Other Primary Structures, exhibition, 2014
• Digital Labor, conference, 2014
• PRISM Breakup, 2013
• Breakout, festival, 2009
• The Internet as Playground and Factory, conference, 2009
• Anticopyright Network, exhibition, 1997
• Real Estate Show, exhibition, 1980 [12]
• Punk Art, exhibition, 1978
• Lives, exhibition, 1975
• Schizo-Culture, 1975
• Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art, exhibition, 1970
• Information, exhibition, 1970
• Kinesthetics, exhibition, 1969
• Some More Beginnings, exhibition, 1968
• The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, exhibition, 1968
• 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, festival, 1966
• Primary Structures, exhibition, 1966
• The Responsive Eye, exhibition, 1965
• Annual Avant Garde Festival, 1963-1982
• Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, exhibition, 1936
• Cubism and Abstract Art, exhibition, 1936
• Machine-Age Exposition, exhibition, 1927
• International Exhibition of Modern Art Assembled by Société Anonyme, exhibition, 1926-1927

Art workers

• Tega Brain
• Ingrid Burrington
• Ted Byfield
• Taeyoon Choi
• Michael Connor
• Aria Dean
• Charles Eppley
• Ben Fino-Radin
• Alexander R. Galloway
• Kenneth Goldsmith
• Sarah Hamerman
• Sam Hart
• Nabil Hassein
• David Hecht
• Melanie Hoff
• Nora Khan
• Shannon Mattern
• Lai Yi Ohlsen
• Laurel Ptak
• Legacy Russell
• Trebor Scholz
• Mindy Seu
• Paul Soulellis
• Dan Taeyoung
• Dennis Tenen
• Francis Tseng
• Charles Turner
• McKenzie Wark
• Chris Woebken

See also

• Monoskop's NYC Twitter list

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