Visual Music Archive

The Visual Music Archive has been set up by Heike Sperling. This is an excellent online resource for all that is happening in visual music and would be worth bookmarking and coming back to regularly. The layout is really easy to use and follow and this is an exciting resource, that I will definitely be keeping in touch with regularly.

Visual Music Archive

Heike makes the very interesting points about archiving practice via online means.

"Since the Visual Music Archive is not a blog it accumulates slowly and steadily, and shall continue to far into the future.
To seek completeness in the field of fine arts seems rather eerie. A wunderkammer, on the other hand, is far more interesting, challenging, and provides inspiring impulses. As a library's inner sanctum."
Source: http://www.heikesperling.de/visualmusic.0.html

There are really useful categories from which to browse the archive.
Latest Editions
Artists
Works
Reading

Visit
http://visualmusicarchive.org/

Computer Baroque - online exhibition - 2009

Computer Baroque - curated by Richard Wright.
online exhibition from 14 April to 14 July 2009

"Animate Projects presents Computer Baroque, an online exhibition, curated by Richard Wright. Computer Baroque is a selection of defining works in the history of artists’ digital moving image. Rarely seen, they represent a period – the late eighties and early nineties - in which computer animation was the focus for the most audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology...
The Computer Baroque programme screened at Tate Modern on 20 March 2009; the majority of those works are now showing here from 14 April to 14 July 2009. Programme notes by curator Richard Wright."

See: http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/computer_baroque/baroque

Programme Note

..."featuring pioneers Karl Sims, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, William Latham, Beriou, John Tonkin, Chris Landreth, Peter Callas, Simon Biggs, Ruth Lingford, James Duesing, Paul Garrin, Shelley Lake, The Butler Brothers and Jason White & Richard Wright."

See also: Essay by Richard Wright
Computer Baroque: Computer animation 1987–1995 by Richard Wright (2009)

Database of Virtual Art

"The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research-oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions. The web-based, cost-free instrument - appropriate to the needs of process art - allows individuals to post material themselves. Compiling video documentation, technical data, interfaces, displays, and literature offers a unique answer to the needs of the field. All works can be linked with exhibiting institutions, events and bibliographical references. Over time the richly interlinked data will also serve as a predecessor for the crucial systematic preservation of this art."

HEAD, SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTION & ARTIST NETWORK
Prof. Dr. Oliver Grau

http://www.virtualart.at/common/recentDocument.do