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User Groups & Associations

International Digital Media and Art association (iDMAa)

iDMAa is a forum for professionals working across the wide range of disciplines and initiatives that are clustered around the emerging field of Digital Media and Arts. iDMAa is a forum where progressive thinkers and creators can come together as a community — both online and in person — to share insights, concerns and experiences related to their common interests.

Leonardo - The International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology

Leonardo/ISAST serves the international arts community by promoting and documenting work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology, and by encouraging and stimulating collaboration between artists, scientists, and technologists. In 2009, DANM joined the Leonardo Affiliate Membership Program. DANM faculty and students are encouraged to take advantage of benefits (pdf) available as part of DANM's participation in the Leonardo Affiliate Membership Program.

Media Art Deadlines Calendar

(iCal) http://dropbox.at.or.at/dropbox/ical/hcs/MediaArtDeadlines.ics

Rhizome

Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open platforms for exchange and collaboration, our website serves to encourage and expand the communities around these practices. Our programs, many of which happen online, include commissions, exhibitions, events, discussion, archives and portfolios. We support artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media. Our organizational voice draws attention to artists, their work, their perspectives and the complex interrelationships between technology, art and culture.

Blogs

http://www.futuresoflearning.org

Hosted at the University of California Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine, Futures of Learning is a collective blog dedicated to the topic of new media and learning.

Festivals

• Wikipedia List of International New Media Festivals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Media_art_festivals
• Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria http://www.aec.at/
• Boston Cyberarts Festival http://bostoncyberarts.org/
• c-Ievel, Los Angeles, http://www.c-Ievel.cc/history.html
• Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, http://deaf.v2.nl/
• D-I-N-A (Dlgltal-ls-Not-Analog). Barcelona, http://www.d-i-n-a.net
• Electronic Orphanage, Los Angeles, http://www.electronicorphanage.com/
• ENTER, Digital Art/Science/Technology, Prague, http://enter4.org
• European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, http://www.emaf.de/
• FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, http://www.file.org.br/
• Filmwinter Festival for Expanded. Media, Stuttgart, Germany, http://www.filmwinter.de/
• Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands, http://impakt.nl/
• ISEA Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, variable locations, http://www.isea-web.org/
• Korea Web Art Festival, Korea, http://www.koreawebart.org/
• Make-World Festival, Munich, Germany, http://www.muffathalle.de/
• MAAP Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, variable locations, http://www.maap.org.au/
• New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada, http://www.newformsfestival.com/
• Next 5 Minutes, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, http://www.next5minutes.org/
• Public Netbase to, Vienna, Austria, http://www.to.or.at/
• Read_Me Festival, variable locations, http://readme.runme.org/
• Root Festival, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, UK, http://www.root2002.org/
• SIGGRAPH Art Show, variable locations, http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/
• Spark Festival, New Zealand, http://spark.mediarts.net.nz/
• Transmediale, Berlin, Germany, http://www.transmediale.de/
• Version Festival, http://versionfest.com/defaultlarchives/OOOOS 2.html
• VIPER, International Festival of Film, Video and Media Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland, http://www.viper.ch/
• 01SJ Festival, San Jose, California, http://www.zero1.org/

External Suppliers & Services

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Misc/Link Sites

• Roger Brown's excellent Where to Find Stuff for welders, with a local emphasis (thanks Alan!)
• Stanford University's Product Realization Lab Supplier Database

Electronic Components

• Acroname
• All Electronics
• Alltronics
• BG Micro
• Halted Electronic Supply
• Hobby Engineering
• Jameco
• The LED Museum
• MPJA Online

Salvage

• American Science and Surplus
• Electronics Surplus, C and H Sales Co.
• Herback

Materials

• 8020, "The Industrial Erector Set"
• Online Metals
• Small Parts Inc. "The hardware store for researchers and developers"

Services

• eMachine Shop - custom fabrication of small parts
• PCB 123 - one-off printed circuit boards

Microcontrollers

• Basic Micro
• Basic X
• Making Things
• NIQ EasyIO
• Parallax
• Wiring Programmable Environment