Resources in NYC for Research on Contemporary Art
New York Art Resources Consortium: http://arcade.nyarc.org/
Museum of Modern Art: http://moma.org/ ... MoMA library
NYU - Specialist Librarian - Fine Arts: Tom McNulty (Bobst) - 212-998-2519
Digital Born Art - Exhibitions, News items, and Collections for class discussion
Andy Warhol's lost works - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/04/24/this-lost-andy-warhol-computer-art-was-rediscovered-on-floppy-disks-from-1985/ and http://www.warhol.org/uploadedFiles/Warhol_Site/Warhol/Content/The_Museum/Press_room/documents/The_Warhol_Amiga_Project_Release_4-24-14.pdf
Electronic Arts Intermix - http://www.eai.org/index.htm
Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print (Published in conjuction with an exhibition curated by Paul Hertz and Debora Wood at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 01/18/2008 - 04/06/2008 (http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/view/exhibitions/past-exhibits/2008/imaging-by-numbers.html)
The Museum of Modern Art - http://moma.org/
2008 Exhibit Design and the Elastic Mind - http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/
Rhizome http://rhizome.org/
The Whitney Museum in New York City - http://whitney.org/ ... Artport http://artport.whitney.org
Information, Communities and Resources on the conservation and documentation of computer-based art
American Institute of Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works: Electronic Media Group Wiki http://www.conservation-wiki.com/index.php?title=Electronic_Media
Database of Virtual Art http://www.virtualart.at/database.html
Dekker, Annette Speculative Scenarios (a book on digital born art) http://www.incca.org/news/205-publications/1315-new-book-on-born-digital-art
EAI Online Resource Guide http://www.eai.org/resourceguide/home.html
Electronic Media Group http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/sg/emg/library/index.html
Getty link on conservation: http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/newsletters/24_2/index.html
Harvard University Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/study-and-research/researchcenters/straus.dot
International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA) - http://incca-na.org/
Media Art and Museums: Guidelines and Case Studies http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/gestion_collections-collections_management/docam/mediatique_avant_propos-media_foreword-eng.jsp
Netherlands Media Art Institute (article on documentation) - http://nimk.nl/eng/documentation-computer-based-art
Inside Installation Notes: http://www.inside-installations.org/research/index.php
Rhizome: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/aug/5/keeping-it-online/ and Digital Preservation Practices and the Rhizome Artbase
Seeing Double: Emulation Theory and Practice; Exhibit - http://www.variablemedia.net/e/seeingdouble/
Tate Modern (London) - Matters in Media Art - http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/majorprojects/mediamatters/
Specific works of art for class discussions:
Martin Wattenberg - Thinking Machine (Processing)
Cabspotting - and Fly Cab by Tomas Apodaca (Processing; data visualization)
Shadow Monsters by Phil Worthington on YouTube (be sure to turn up the volume for this one!) (Processing; multi-media effects)
33 Questions Per Miunte - by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (programmed in Delphi which is a derivative of Pascal); text art
I Want You To Want Me - by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris (a complex work of database art using Java, C++/OpenGL, multi-media, MySQL and custom hardware)
- We Feel Fine - also by Sept Kamvar and Jonathan Harris (uses Processing, Java, Perl and MySQL for the data)
- The data API is open to all and the artists encourage others to explore their own visions and interpretations of the data
Agent Ruby at SF MoMA by Lynn Hershman Leeson at SF MoMA ("Agent Ruby")
Intersections by John F. Simon
Works by Siebren Veerstieg
Programming Tools for Comparison and Discussion
Processing - from MIT Media Lab (See OpenProcessing for examples with source code)
Processing.js - using Javascript and Sketchpad for working on the web
Max from cycling 74
Gimp (which supports scripting as well as drawing tools)