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Art image and video resources
Art images
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- Art Resource - Digital art image collection. Subscription service available by IP address check from any College networked computer. No password
- artincontext.org - good directory of contemporary artists, with images of their work, and links to their galleries. New York based, publicly supported nonprofit organization, started in 1995. Search or browse
- ArtSTOR - Image database for art history and architecture. Subscription service. Register at Senate House Library, then sign on with your ULRLS library card number
- Axis UK - online artists register, showing work. Supported by the Arts Council
- BAPLA - information about picture libraries in Britain
- Bridgeman Art Library - Digital art image collection. Subscription service available by IP address check from any College networked computer. No password
- European Art Net - contemporary art archives search engine
- Google Image Search - general images search engine
- JISC review of image search engines
- Olga's Gallery- Online Art Museum with digital images for educational use.
- VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) - access to digital image collections for higher education, and guides to creating them.
- Review of available image collections - online article from Information Today
Video and film art
- Artangel - commissioner and publisher (London)
- British Artists Film and Video Study Collection - database from research collection at Central St. Martins (AHRB funded)
- Cinenova - distributor of women's cinema, site includes database
- Cinovid - German based not-for-profit information database supporting distribution
- Edition bdv - European art videos, no website, will send a list (Paris) Editions a Voir, PO Box 15981, 1001 NI, Amsterdam
- Electronic Arts Intermix - video bank and supplier of canonical and contemorary art and performance art videos (New York)
- Heure Exquise - site promoting video art and video creation, with a large catalogue (France)
- Film and Video Umbrella - touring agency for artists' film, video and digital media (London)
- Hi-Beam - links to retailers + bulletin boards
- ICA - gallery and shop (London)
- Illuminations - the Eye series, Turner prize videos etc
- Light Cone - some videos for sale, mostly films for rental (Paris)
- The Kitchen - arts centre that produces videos (New York)
- The Lux - promotes and supports artists moving image work. Includes study section and other good links sections
- Michael Blackwood Productions - films and videos on art, architecture, music, dance
- Radical software - digitised early video magazine, 1970-74
- Re-Voir - project founded to make a collection of videotapes of experimental film available
- Roland Collection of Videos and Films on Art
- TruMedia - supplies Phaidon videos
- Video DataBank - art video supplier and bank with clips (Chicago)
- Walther Konig - bookshop with some videos (Koln)
- Women Make Movies - feminist media arts organisation which also supplies videos
Organisations
- AN Web publications, guides for artists - funding, professional practice, contracts, career information for artists, produced by AN Publishing. Password from enquiry desk, or subscribe yourself on the site (free)
- Arts Council England - funding schemes, policies and reports to download. Has link to Arts Council England, London. Also at Arts.org.uk
- Artangel's online commissions - includes work by Rachel Whiteread, Matthew Barney, Douglas Gordon and lists related books, videos and CD's produced by Artangel
- inIVA OnLine - site includes artists projects by Keith Piper etc. and inIVA's library catalogue, online commissions and site archive
- Ars Electronica - annual conference and exhibition of digital art
- V2 organisation - institute for the unstable media. Runs DEAF (Dutch Electronic Art Festival)
- CRUMB - (curatorial resource for upstart media bliss) website for those who exhibit, organise, archive or make new media art
Art galleries and museums
- ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, London
- Serpentine Gallery
- Tate Gallery
- Guggenheim Museums
- Dia Center
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Centre Georges Pompidou
Selected arts listings
- New Exhibitions of Contemporary Art - online version of the monthly NECA guide - a listing of contemporary art galleries in London, the Regions, Channel Islands, Ireland, Scotland and Wales -with the exhibitions and artists currently on show. An easy way to find the web site and e-mail for London galleries
- artupdate.com - lists openings of forthcoming exhibitions, international
- artnet.com - commercial, contemporary artists - site listing commercially successful contemporary artists and galleries. Founded in 1989 by a group of art dealers, and designed to be used to 'research, browse, bid and buy art'
- Culture 24 - formerly 24 Hour Museum, a UK government gateway site to museums and galleries
Portals
- Intute: Arts & Humanities - search engine/web portal for the Arts and Creative Industries (JISC funded project for UK HE and FE sector)
- Art History Resources on the web - directory of resources, organised by historic period, as well as research resources and museums and galleries
- Voice of the Shuttle Art and Art history page - directory of resources including art theory & politics as well as museums and galleries