'Media Arts' is a somewhat an obscure and wide-ranging subject: encompassing contemporary art, digital/analogue processes, art history, technology, and so on. With the growth of online networks - new groups, organisations, blogs etc, appear every week - it's hard to keep track of things. Even open-source technology can sometime be elitist: who knows where to look, for example, to learn a certain programming language? And now with the cultural spending cuts, communication links and online networks are more valuable.
This is my own solution for dealing with these issues - to create a searchable archive of artists, galleries, residencies, opportunities, open calls, talks, softandhard-ware, etc. Feel free to browse and search - it's only a platform to find more things, which in turn will be put back into the archive.. And forward on to anyone who will be interested!
But remember this is incomplete, not 'polished', and an ongoing process. Free information costs nothing, but does require time and effort to maintain. If everyone puts in what they take out, this could be a really great resource. Do you know of something that would be useful to be on the site? Do you know someone who is a good source of information who would be willing to co-edit this regularly? Do you know someone who could help to host the site or re-design into a more user-friendly archive?
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