The Art of Software
Maeda Studio
The Pioneering work of John Maeda.
Noodlebox
The original web software art playground by Daniel Brown.
Turux
Minimal, organic software art from Lia and Dextro. The software art equivalent of the clicks and wurrs of the music of Basic Channel.
Sodacontstructor
The seminal Soda Constructer. Java applet enabling users to construct mobile lifeforms and/or dynamic animations within a virtual environment with simulated physics.
Bits and Pieces
Daniel Brown's 2000 follow up to Noodlebox.
» www.noodlebox.com/bitsandpieces
The Secret Lives of Numbers
This Java Applet created by Golan Levin plots the popularity on the net of the numbers between zero and one million, revealing a miriad of insights into the culture and collective psyche of the society that uses them.
» www.turbulence.org/Works/nums
Processing
"Processing is a programming language and environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities. It was created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as an electronic sketchbook."
Moovl
Soda constructor junior. Java applet that brings your doodles to life as you draw.
Play-Create
Daniel Brown's current online folio of shockwave applets.
Re-move
Further experiments in orgainic reactive-audio-visuals from Lia.
Group-C
The software art of Casey Reas and collaborators.
Robotduck
Shockwave games by Ben Pitt, with gameplay to rival modern console games.
Presstube
Online folio of James Patterson. James's animations sit somewhere between Egon Schiele, Robert Crumb and the work of French cartoonist Moebius.
Hoogerbrugge
The disturbing but hilarious world of Hans Hoogerbrugge.
levitated
The software art of the prolific Jared Tarbell.
hahakid
The software art of Andreas Müller.
The Manual Input Sessions
An audiovisual performance by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman combining analogue overhead projection with overlayed digital projection and software that interprets the projected imagery into sound and images.
The Art of Hardware
Endfile
Kate Pemberton's site documenting her ongoing art practice.
Digital Film and Photography
Stop Motion Studies
David Crawford's stop motion image sequences of underground train passengers around the world.
Zabriskie Point
Nick kilroy's online photo diary.
» www.electrokin.com/zabriskie_point
Pleix Films
Some of the most gorgeous music videos around.
Visualizing Sound and Sonifying Visuals
The Pre-Electronic Era
Some examples of Sound Visualization and Analysis from the pre-electronic era.
HearData
HearData: sound player for data - translating data into sound.
The Manual Input Sessions
An audiovisual performance by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman combining analogue overhead projection with overlayed digital projection and software that interprets the projected imagery into sound and images.
Theory
Ctheory
An international journal of theory, technology, and culture, publishing articles, interviews and book reviews online since 1993, includes articles by Jean Baudrillard, Friedrich Kittler and Paul Virilio.
Edge
Site founded by John Brockman where many of the worlds leading thinkers in a wide variety of fields publish articles, think aloud and comment on each others ideas.
MetaMute
Online version of Mute - the culture and politics biannual. Particularly concerned with digital culture and the politics of the networked society.
Abstract Culture
Cultural theory cyberzine from the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit.
Ubuweb
Theoretical papers including "The Death Of The Author" by Roland Bathes and "The Aesthetics of Silence" by Susan Sontag.
Claude Shannon
Shannon's seminal 1948 paper that gave birth to Information Theory. Published Online in pdf format.
Rhizome.org
An online platform for the global new media art community, supporting the creation, presentation and discussion of contemporary art that uses new technologies.
CDDC
The Centre for Digital Discourse site includes links to information on and papers by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Kevin Kelly, Bruno Latour, Bill Joy, Douglas Rushkoff and many others.
Trace
Article about Interactive Audio on the Web by J Andrews - 22.09.03
Writing
McSweeney's
"Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency is an offshoot of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a journal created by nervous people in relative obscurity, and published four times a year".
Something Might Plummet. Something Might Soar
Short story by Dave Eggers.
Community
Gabba
Network of refugees from the interactive art B.A. in Newport, Wales.
Floppyswop
A place for sharing art, media, sound, noise, basically any files small enough to fit on a conventional floppy disc.
Creative Commons
Copyright nolonger needs to be an all or nothing deal. With the help of the creative commons site create a license for your work that specifically outlines how it can and cannot be used.
Delicious
Delicious is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
Audioscrobbler
Audioscrobbler builds a profile of your musical taste using a plugin for your media player (Winamp, iTunes, XMMS etc..). Plugins send the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler server, which updates your musical profile with the new song. Every person with a plugin has their own page on this site which shows their listening statistics. The system automatically matches you to people with a similar music taste, and generates personalised recommendations
Down Hill Battle
Working to make a fairer future for the Music Industry.
Music Freedom
A usefull list of links to sites and articles concerned with the current intellectual property debate.
File Sharing
Article on the effect of fileshare on record sales.
» New York Times - Share The Music
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending Freedom In The Digital World.
Code
Paul Bourke
Paul's site contains a wide variety of well written technical tutorials and papers.
» astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke
Craig Reynolds
Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters. Techniques for simulating life-like behaviours for autonomous characters presented in a series of java applets inluding one demonstrating the famous boids.
Erik Neumann
Series of java applet based physics simulations.
comp.graphics.algorithms
Incredibly helpfull, almost bottomless pit of graphics related code solutions, endless links and massive bibliography.
» comp.graphics.algorithms Frequently Asked Questions