# 🎨Resources for Artists

## Contemporary Art Websites and Blogs <a href="#contemporary-art-websites-and-blogs" id="contemporary-art-websites-and-blogs"></a>

### Video, Films, Experimental Art <a href="#video-films-experimental-art" id="video-films-experimental-art"></a>

* ​[Video Data Bank](https://www.vdb.org/)​
* ​[Ubu, film & video](http://www.ubu.com/film/)​
* ​[Experimental Television Center](http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/)​
* ​[Smithsonian Show: Watch This! Revelations in Media Art](http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/watch_this/)​
* ​[Film Reference Library by tiff](https://tiff.net/library)​
* ​[Kanopy: Watch free films with student account](https://www.kanopy.com/)​
* ​[Film For Action](https://www.filmsforaction.org/)​

### Documentaries <a href="#documentaries" id="documentaries"></a>

* ​[Snagfilm](https://www.snagfilms.com/)​
* ​[Top Documentary Film](https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/)​

### Contemporary Art <a href="#contemporary-art" id="contemporary-art"></a>

* ​[e-flux](https://www.e-flux.com/)​
* ​[Art21](https://art21.org/)​
* ​[ARTNews](https://www.artnews.com/)​
* ​[Widewalls](https://www.widewalls.ch/)​
* ​[ArtSpace](https://www.artspace.com/)​
* ​[SFAQ](http://sfaq.us/) - International Art and Culture
* ​[Contemporary Art Daily](https://contemporaryartdaily.com/)​
* ​[Art Agenda](https://www.art-agenda.com/)​
* ​[MousseMagazine](http://moussemagazine.it/)​
* ​[Leap Magazine](https://www.clotmag.com/)​
* ​[Monoskop - A wiki for art](https://monoskop.org/Monoskop)​
* ​[Artstor - Art and Multimedia From Public Collections](https://library.artstor.org/#/home)​

### New Media <a href="#new-media" id="new-media"></a>

* ​[Rhizome](http://rhizome.org/)​
* ​[Net Art Anthology](https://www.widewalls.ch/)​
* ​[Archive of Digital Art](http://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/database-info/archive.html)​
* ​[CADRE's Switch](http://switch.sjsu.edu/wp/v28/)​
* ​[Clot Magazine](https://www.clotmag.com/)​
* ​[Transfer Gallery](http://transfergallery.com/)​
* ​[New Media Caucus](http://www.newmediacaucus.org/) —Nonprofit supporting New Media Art
* ​[Eyebeam](http://www.eyebeam.org/)​
* ​[Electronic Arts Intermix](https://www.eai.org/) (also New Media Art)
* ​[artnetweb](http://www.artnetweb.com/)​
* ​[We Make Money Not Art](http://we-make-money-not-art.com/)​
* ​[Art Space article on early Net Art](http://www.artspace.com/search/?q=art+tech) & [article on artists using phone apps](http://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/art-tech/10-apps-that-are-also-works-of-art-54760)​
* ​[LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks](https://www.leonardo.info/laser-talks)​

### Tech Journals <a href="#tech-journals" id="tech-journals"></a>

* ​[Boing Boing](http://boingboing.net/)​
* ​[Futurism](https://futurism.com/)​
* ​[Mashable](http://mashable.com/)​
* ​[TechCrunch (art tag)](https://techcrunch.com/tag/art/)​

### Games and Elit <a href="#games-and-elit" id="games-and-elit"></a>

* ​[Internet Arcade](https://archive.org/details/internetarcade)​
* ​[itch.io](https://itch.io/)​
* ​[Electronic Literature Archive](http://collection.eliterature.org/)​
* ​[LGBTQ Game Archive](https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/about/about-archive/)​
* ​[Queerness and Gaming Conference (QGCON)](http://www.qgcon.com/)​

### Artist Talk Playlist <a href="#artist-talk-playlist" id="artist-talk-playlist"></a>

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3-8tRMPAzs6E0wGW_FXWX384zRFPiNrW>" %}

## Video Art Festival and Awards <a href="#video-art-festival-and-awards" id="video-art-festival-and-awards"></a>

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](https://filmfreeway.com/)

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### Most Famous International Film Awards and Festivals <a href="#most-famous-international-film-awards-and-festivals" id="most-famous-international-film-awards-and-festivals"></a>

* ​[Academy Awards](https://oscar.go.com/) (Most known as Oscar), US
* ​[Festival de Cannes](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/), France
* ​[Venice Film Festival - La Biennale di Venezia](https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2019), Venice, Italy
* ​[Berlin International Film Festival](https://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html), Berlin, Germany

### Good for Independent Films <a href="#good-for-independent-films" id="good-for-independent-films"></a>

* ​[Chicago International Film Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_International_Film_Festival), Chicago, US
* ​[Toronto International Film Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_International_Film_Festival), Canada
* ​[Sundance Film Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundance_Film_Festival), US
* ​[SXSW](https://www.sxsw.com/festivals/film/), US
* ​[Tribeca](https://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/), US
* ​[Slamdance Film Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slamdance_Film_Festival), US
* ​[LA Freewaves](http://freewaves.org/), US

### Video Art Biennials <a href="#video-art-biennials" id="video-art-biennials"></a>

* ​[La Biennale di Venezia](https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2019), Italy
* ​[Videonale E.V](https://www.videonale.org/en). Italy
* ​[Proyector-Festival de Videoarte](https://proyector.info/), Spain
* ​[Loop Barcelona](http://loop-barcelona.com/), Spain

### Digital Media Festival / Conference <a href="#digital-media-festival-conference" id="digital-media-festival-conference"></a>

* ​[Ars Electronica](https://ars.electronica.art/news/en/), Linz, Austria
* ​[European Media Art Festival](https://www.emaf.de/), Germany
* ​[IMPAKT](https://impakt.nl/), Netherlands
* ​[Festival Elektra](https://www.elektramontreal.ca/), Canada
* ​[Images Festival](https://www.imagesfestival.com/), Toronto, Canada
* ​[FILE Electronic Language International Festival](https://file.org.br/), Sao Paulo, Brazil
* ​[SIGGRAPH](https://s2019.siggraph.org/), LA, US
* ​[New York Electronica Art Festival,](https://www.nycgo.com/events/new-york-electronic-art-festival) NY, US
* ​[Technarte](https://technarte.org/en/the-conference/), LA, US

[Media art festivals - MonoskopWiki for Collaborative Studies of Arts, Media and Humanitiesmonoskop.org](https://monoskop.org/Media_art_festivals)

### SF Local Festival <a href="#sf-local-festival" id="sf-local-festival"></a>

* ​[San Francisco Independent Film Festival](https://sfindie.com/festivals/sf-indiefest/)​
* ​[LAST Festival](http://www.lastfestival.org/) ​
* ​[Recombinant Festival](http://recombinantfestival.com/2019/)​

## VR Market and Festival <a href="#vr-market-and-festival" id="vr-market-and-festival"></a>

{% embed url="<https://vrfilmreview.ru/vr-film-festivals-2020-e809a6a3d633>" %}

### Markets <a href="#markets" id="markets"></a>

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

![](https://gblobscdn.gitbook.com/assets%2F-LmafTYzbvNp-4WguvM8%2F-MG4_4LudkCpTp56mvQL%2F-MG4amCp6Y1PkPToJkdH%2FScreen_Shot_2020-08-21_at_05.47.42.png?alt=media\&token=009d22f5-79b6-4810-a839-bf93c8275b6b)

* 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 <a href="#festivals" id="festivals"></a>

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

![](https://gblobscdn.gitbook.com/assets%2F-LmafTYzbvNp-4WguvM8%2F-MG4_4LudkCpTp56mvQL%2F-MG4ay7brP7sLusBcwn2%2FScreen_Shot_2020-08-21_at_05.53.16.png?alt=media\&token=bec2fb3f-5ab1-4cdb-9c33-1d75efa44755)

* Venice Film Festival
* ​[Annecy Film Festival](https://www.annecy.org/home): International animation festival
* Sundance
* Tribeca
* Kaohsiung Film Festival
* SXSW
* idfa
* Sheffield Doc | Fest

## Download video and audio from the web <a href="#download-video-and-audio-from-the-web" id="download-video-and-audio-from-the-web"></a>

### Usage rights <a href="#usage-rights" id="usage-rights"></a>

* ​[Creative Commons](http://creativecommons.org/)​
  * Use it as search term or filter for google search (image/audio only), [filter for YouTube](http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/creative-commons/creative-commons-information-pack-for-teachers-and-students/how-to-find-creative-commons-material-using-youtube), Soundcloud, etc
* ​[Public Domain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain)​
  * ​[Pond5 Public Domain Project](https://www.pond5.com/free)​
  * ​[Internet Archive](https://archive.org/about/)​
    * Their [Prelinger Public Domain Archive](https://archive.org/details/prelinger) is all usable content
  * Media from [NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/) and other gov't agencies is all in the public domain
* Fair use
  * pdf on [Best Practices in Fair Use](https://github.com/uglykiki/SJSU-Art75/tree/9b783d4757441f7b20046279110cf4ef5cda1b64/resources/online_best_practices_in_fair_use.pdf)​
  * Center for Media and Social Impact's [Code of Best Practies in Fair Use for Online Video](http://cmsimpact.org/code/code-best-practices-fair-use-online-video/)​

### Download Video from YouTube <a href="#download-video-from-youtube" id="download-video-from-youtube"></a>

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

  * ​[y2Mate](https://y2mate.com/)​
  * ​[Online Video Converter](https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/video-converter)​

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

### Download Free Stock Video <a href="#download-free-stock-video" id="download-free-stock-video"></a>

* ​[Mixkit](https://mixkit.co/?ref=producthunt)​
* ​[Coverr](https://coverr.co/)​
* ​[Videezy](https://www.videvo.net/)​
* ​[Pixaby](https://pixabay.com/videos/)​
* ​[Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/videos/)​

## Download Audio & Sound FX <a href="#download-audio-and-sound-fx" id="download-audio-and-sound-fx"></a>

* ​[Youtube Sound Library](https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?nv=1)​
* Soundcloud: Filter for content in Creative Commons, download through [this site.](https://sclouddownloader.com/)​
* ​[Free Music Archive](http://freemusicarchive.org/)​
* ​[Adobe Stock](https://stock.adobe.com/audio?gclid=Cj0KCQjwv7L6BRDxARIsAGj-34pmJB9GVD0iC3jJ_xtscWDYPtTUATcB_im_-EVdUw50LuA7am4tafQaAs4YEALw_wcB\&as_channel=sem\&as_campclass=nonbrand\&as_campaign=US%7CCPRO%7CStock%7CAWAR%7CAudio_Exact%7CGG%7C%7C\&as_source=google\&as_camptype=acquisition\&sdid=YXPZG2JH\&ef_id=Cj0KCQjwv7L6BRDxARIsAGj-34pmJB9GVD0iC3jJ_xtscWDYPtTUATcB_im_-EVdUw50LuA7am4tafQaAs4YEALw_wcB:G:s\&s_kwcid=AL!3085!3!450951803992!e!!g!!royalty%20free%20music%20library): Royalty-free musics
* ​[freesound.org](https://freesound.org/)​
* ​[Free SFX](http://www.freesfx.co.uk/)​
* ​[Musopen.org](https://musopen.org/): Classical music
* ​[Sample Swap](http://sampleswap.org/)​
* ​[Sound Bible](http://soundbible.com/free-sound-effects-1.html)​
* ​[Free Sound Effects](http://99sounds.org/free-sound-effects/)​
* ​[playonloop](https://www.playonloop.com/)​
* ​[Speech to audio](https://notevibes.com/)​

## Watch Movies <a href="#watch-movies" id="watch-movies"></a>

* ​[Kanopy](https://www.kanopy.com/): Login with SJSU account
* ​[PBS Documentaries](https://www.pbs.org/)​
* ​[Internet Archive: Video](https://archive.org/)​
* ​[Within](https://www.with.in/): 360 & VR interactive Video
* ​[Wave VR](https://wavexr.com/): Watch live VR music concerts, support Windows

## Open Source Tool <a href="#open-source-tool" id="open-source-tool"></a>

{% embed url="<https://github.com/everestpipkin/tools-list>" %}

### 2D Graphic <a href="#id-2d-graphic" id="id-2d-graphic"></a>

* ​[GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/)​
* ​[Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/)​

### 3D Modeling and 3D Printing <a href="#id-3d-modeling-and-3d-printing" id="id-3d-modeling-and-3d-printing"></a>

* ​[blender](https://www.blender.org/)​
* ​[Sculptris](https://pixologic.com/sculptris/)​
* ​[Meshmixer](http://www.meshmixer.com/)​
* ​[MakeHuman](http://www.makehuman.org/)​

### Music Production <a href="#music-production" id="music-production"></a>

* ​[Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org/)​
* ​[Mixxx](https://mixxx.org/)​
* ​[LMMS](https://lmms.io/)​
* ​[DefleMask](http://deflemask.com/)​
* ​[SuperCollider](https://supercollider.github.io/download)​
* ​[Soundgrain](http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/soundgrain/)​
* ​[Giada](https://www.giadamusic.com/index)​

### Creative Coding <a href="#creative-coding" id="creative-coding"></a>

* ​[p5.js](https://p5js.org/)​
* ​[Processing](https://processing.org/)​
* ​[Three.js](https://threejs.org/)​
* ​[Nodebox](https://www.nodebox.net/)​
* ​[VVVV](https://vvvv.org/)​
* ​[openFramework](https://openframeworks.cc/)​

## Tutorials & Online Course <a href="#tutorials-and-online-course" id="tutorials-and-online-course"></a>

* ​[Lynda](https://www.lynda.com/portal/patron?org=sjlibrary.org)​
* ​[Kadenze](https://www.kadenze.com/)​
* ​[freeCodeCamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/)​
* ​[Scrimba](https://scrimba.com/)​

## Community <a href="#community" id="community"></a>

* ​[Codame](https://codame.com/)​
* ​[Glitch](https://glitch.com/)​
* ​[Gray Area's Patch](https://grayarea.org/)​

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