🎨Resources for Artists

Contemporary Art Websites and Blogs

Video, Films, Experimental Art

• ​Video Data Bank​

• ​Ubu, film & video​

• ​Experimental Television Center​

• ​Smithsonian Show: Watch This! Revelations in Media Art​

• ​Film Reference Library by tiff​

• ​Kanopy: Watch free films with student account​

• ​Film For Action​

Documentaries

• ​Snagfilm​

• ​Top Documentary Film​

Contemporary Art

• ​e-flux​

• ​Art21​

• ​ARTNews​

• ​Widewalls​

• ​ArtSpace​

• ​SFAQ - International Art and Culture

• ​Contemporary Art Daily​

• ​Art Agenda​

• ​MousseMagazine​

• ​Leap Magazine​

• ​Monoskop - A wiki for art​

• ​Artstor - Art and Multimedia From Public Collections​

New Media

• ​Rhizome​
• ​Net Art Anthology​
• ​Archive of Digital Art​
• ​CADRE's Switch​
• ​Clot Magazine​
• ​Transfer Gallery​
• ​New Media Caucus —Nonprofit supporting New Media Art
• ​Eyebeam​
• ​Electronic Arts Intermix (also New Media Art)
• ​artnetweb​
• ​We Make Money Not Art​
• ​Art Space article on early Net Art & article on artists using phone apps​
• ​LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks​

Tech Journals

• ​Boing Boing​
• ​Futurism​
• ​Mashable​
• ​TechCrunch (art tag)​

Games and Elit

• ​Internet Arcade​
• ​itch.io​
• ​Electronic Literature Archive​
• ​LGBTQ Game Archive​
• ​Queerness and Gaming Conference (QGCON)​

Artist Talk Playlist

Video Art Festival and Awards

FilmFreeway: Easy Submitting platform

Film Festivals, Screenplay Contests, SubmissionsEnter the world’s best film festivals and screenplay contests. FilmFreeway makes it easy to discover, submit and get tickets to thousands of events.filmfreeway.com

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Most Famous International Film Awards and Festivals

• ​Academy Awards (Most known as Oscar), US
• ​Festival de Cannes, France
• ​Venice Film Festival - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
• ​Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany

Good for Independent Films

• ​Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, US
• ​Toronto International Film Festival, Canada
• ​Sundance Film Festival, US
• ​SXSW, US
• ​Tribeca, US
• ​Slamdance Film Festival, US
• ​LA Freewaves, US

Video Art Biennials

• ​La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
• ​Videonale E.V. Italy
• ​Proyector-Festival de Videoarte, Spain
• ​Loop Barcelona, Spain

Digital Media Festival / Conference

• ​Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
• ​European Media Art Festival, Germany
• ​IMPAKT, Netherlands
• ​Festival Elektra, Canada
• ​Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
• ​FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• ​SIGGRAPH, LA, US
• ​New York Electronica Art Festival, NY, US
• ​Technarte, LA, US

Media art festivals - MonoskopWiki for Collaborative Studies of Arts, Media and Humanitiesmonoskop.org

SF Local Festival

• ​San Francisco Independent Film Festival​
• ​LAST Festival ​
• ​Recombinant Festival​

VR Market and Festival

VR FILM FESTIVALS 2020Medium

Markets

A market is where you go to develop and find money. Request 30% of your budget placed.

• Venice Production Bridge

• Cannes XR: one of the best place to find money

• MIFA(Animation du Monde): Animation only

• Sheffield Doc Fest: for documentary

• idfa Forum: for documentary

Festivals

Sharing your project in official selection and getting much attention. Where the mass audience starts finding your project.

• Venice Film Festival

• ​Annecy Film Festival: International animation festival
• Sundance

• Tribeca

• Kaohsiung Film Festival

• SXSW

• idfa

• Sheffield Doc | Fest

Download video and audio from the web

Usage rights

• ​Creative Commons​

  • Use it as search term or filter for google search (image/audio only), filter for YouTube, Soundcloud, etc
• ​Public Domain​

  • ​Pond5 Public Domain Project​
  • ​Internet Archive​

    • Their Prelinger Public Domain Archive is all usable content
  • Media from NASA and other gov't agencies is all in the public domain
• Fair use

  • pdf on Best Practices in Fair Use​
  • Center for Media and Social Impact's Code of Best Practies in Fair Use for Online Video​

Download Video from YouTube

• Copy the YouTube video's URL into a web service like:

  • ​y2Mate​
  • ​Online Video Converter​

  (Make sure you set the file format to be mp4 video)

Download Free Stock Video

• ​Mixkit​
• ​Coverr​
• ​Videezy​
• ​Pixaby​
• ​Pexels​

Download Audio & Sound FX

• ​Youtube Sound Library​
• Soundcloud: Filter for content in Creative Commons, download through this site.​
• ​Free Music Archive​
• ​Adobe Stock: Royalty-free musics
• ​freesound.org​
• ​Free SFX​
• ​Musopen.org: Classical music
• ​Sample Swap​
• ​Sound Bible​
• ​Free Sound Effects​
• ​playonloop​
• ​Speech to audio​

Watch Movies

• ​Kanopy: Login with SJSU account
• ​PBS Documentaries​
• ​Internet Archive: Video​
• ​Within: 360 & VR interactive Video
• ​Wave VR: Watch live VR music concerts, support Windows

Open Source Tool

GitHub - everestpipkin/tools-list: Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundupGitHub

2D Graphic

• ​GIMP​
• ​Inkscape​

3D Modeling and 3D Printing

• ​blender​
• ​Sculptris​
• ​Meshmixer​
• ​MakeHuman​

Music Production

• ​Audacity​
• ​Mixxx​
• ​LMMS​
• ​DefleMask​
• ​SuperCollider​
• ​Soundgrain​
• ​Giada​

Creative Coding

• ​p5.js​
• ​Processing​
• ​Three.js​
• ​Nodebox​
• ​VVVV​
• ​openFramework​

Tutorials & Online Course

• ​Lynda​
• ​Kadenze​
• ​freeCodeCamp​
• ​Scrimba​

Community

• ​Codame​
• ​Glitch​
• ​Gray Area's Patch​

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