What is Happening in the World of Arts

RCA Research Repository

The Royal College of Art has just launched its new Research Repository, featuring its academic research activities since 2008 in the areas of Art, Design and Communication.

http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/

 

 

 

 

Black and White Films

An almanac of black and white films spanning all classic film genres from the 1910s to 1960s is available to watch for free.All films on the website have been copyright-cleared with many able to be legally dowloaded.
http://www.bnwmovies.com/



Creativity Portal

The Creativity Portal is a joint initiative of Creative Scotland and Education Scotland, and provides up to the minute news on free and subsidised partnership opportunities, workshops, CPD and competitions from creative partners as well as celebrating creative learning across Scotland. It also features a number of videos of artists, designers and practitioners talking about their work.
http://creativityportal.org.uk/

Moving Image Education

The term 'moving image education' refers to learning and teaching practices which develop moving image media literacy.These practices involve analysing moving image texts, creating them, exploring, appreciating and sharing them, and being discerning about them. This is neatly expressed in the widely accepted '3Cs' of media literacy: the cultural, the critical and the creative. These three aspects have shaped the design of this .http://www.movingimageeducation.org/

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Cambridge University on YouTube

Cambridge University, in common with many other leading colleges and universities, has set up its own channel on YouTube designed to showcase some of the research, discoveries and innovations that take place at the University. As you’d expect from an institution encompassing 31 colleges and over 150 departments, the range of subjects covered stretches from the arts and humanities to entropy and mathematics
http://www.youtube.com/user/CambridgeUniversity

Gavin Turk

New from TateShots. Gavin Turk has long been interested in issues of authorship and identity; his artworks include images of himself disguised as Sid Vicious, Che Guevara and Andy Warhol amongst others
http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/1486062077001

Body Pods

Discover the strange and surprising human body in Body Pods, a series of 12 podcasts by artists and scientists, each one exploring a different part of your body.
The Ear is the first in the serie. Artists to follow include Francesca Beard, Amanda Boyle, Stacy Makishi, David Rosenberg, and Richard Thomas.
http://fueltheatre.com/projects/body-pods

Isaac Newton's Papers

Isaac Newton’s own annotated copies of his works, notebooks and manuscripts are being made available online by Cambridge University Library and the University of Sussex. Researchers, students and the public can now zoom in to each page to explore texts like Principia Mathematica in incredible detail and make use of transcriptions to understand Newton’s mind – and handwriting. Several of the manuscripts in the collection contain the handwritten line ‘not fit to be printed’, scrawled by Thomas Pellet, a Fellow of the Royal Society, who went through Newton’s papers after his death to decide which ones should be published.
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/

Fluxus Reader

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Fluxus—the international laboratory of art, architecture, design and music—Swinburne University of Technology has released a free digital copy of The Fluxus Reader.
Fluxus began in the 1950s as a loose, international community of artists, architects, composers and designers. By the 1960s, Fluxus had become a laboratory of ideas and an arena for artistic experimentation in Europe, Asia and the United States. Described as 'the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s', Fluxus has challenged conventional thinking on art and culture for half a century. Fluxus artists had a central role in the birth of such key contemporary art forms as concept art, installation, performance art, intermedia and video. Despite this influence, the scope and scale of this unique phenomenon have made it difficult to explain Fluxus in normative historical and critical terms.
In The Fluxus Reader, editor Ken Friedman offers the first comprehensive overview of this challenging and controversial group. The Fluxus Reader is written by leading scholars and experts from Europe, the United States and Australia.
http://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/swin:9624

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Camera-Less Photography

As part of its Shadow Catchers exhibition on camera-less photography, the V&A has commissioned a short film on each of the five international artists featured in the show: Floris Neususs, Pierre Cordier, Gary Fabian Miller, Susan Derges and Adam Fuss
http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/p/photography/


Management and Business Studies Portal

The British Library has just launched its new Management and Business Studies Portal, bringing together full text research reports, summaries, working papers, videos and exclusive articles by leading researchers and consultants to help you get timely access to emerging research findings. As well as these digital documents, you'll find details of books, journal articles, reports, websites, datasets, sound recordings, videos and other resources from the British Library's collections that are relevant to your search
http://www.mbsportal.bl.uk/

As a special feature in issue 20 of their online magazine TateShots, Tate online has provided this video remembering the art and humour of the Young British Artist Angus Fairhurst who died in March 2008. Artists Gavin Turk and Mat Collishaw, as well as Tate Director Nicholas Serota, recall their memories of Fairhurst, an English artist, who worked in installation, photography and video, alongside images of his huge range of work on exhibition at the Arnolfini in Bristol. This video can be viewed online or downloaded as an MP4 on a range of media player software such as iTunes and QuickTime player. A transcript of the commentary is also available.
http://channel.tate.org.uk/tateshots-blog/?item=18099

Google Art Project
Seventeen leading art galleries and museums across the world have been announced as the initial participants in Google Art Project, a version of the idea which allows visitors to navigate corridors and pore over the minute details of canvasses from the Rijkmuseum to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. UK representatives include Tate Britain and the National Gallery.
http://www.googleartproject.com/

Ideas Factory
Launched by the National Library of Scotland, and developed in conjunction with their Writer-in-Residence, the Ideas Factory is an interactive online workshop designed to help you create and write stories. It shows how stories are put together, and takes you through the story-writing process

http://digital.nls.uk/ideas-factory/

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Paul Rand

Steven Heller has posted a free pdf of his rare book “Paul Rand: A Designer’s Words.” Edited along with Nathan Garland and Georgette Ballance, the thin volume was created to commemorate the April 1998 Paul Rand Symposium held at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

http://www.hellerbooks.com/pdfs/catalogs_rand_designers_words.pdf

Cinemetrics

Cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.

http://cinemetrics.fredericbrodbeck.de/

The Performing Arts on Film & Television
A new catalogue is now available to download, detailing film and video materials held by the archives and collections of the British Film Institute (BFI), Arts Council England, LUX and Central St Martins British Artists Film & Video Study Collection. The Performing Arts on Film & Television Catalogue is intended for use by curators, researchers, students, performers, practitioners, artists and filmmakers. It gives an account of the histories of theatre, acting, dance, music, performance art and oratory (from politics to poetry) on film and television, through references in around 3,500 titles from the collections above.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/publications/performing-arts/

About the National Jukebox
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/

Yale Digital Commons

Yale University has released about 250,000 images and audio files on its Yale Digital Commons platform. All content is available to use free of charge under creative commons license terms. Search across Yale's collections of art, natural history, books, and maps, as well as photos, audio and video.
http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/

Genius of Photography
The BBC website has provided this gallery on the `Genius on Photography' to showcase what they describe as "some of the best photography ever taken" from 19th century photographers, such as Eadweard Muybridge and Jacques-Henri Lartigue, to 20th century photographers, Man Ray, Robert Capa, Ed Ruscha, Richard Billingham and Cindy Sherman. The gallery is organised in six sections, featuring the work of three different photographers in each section. This selection has been taken from a television series broadcast by the BBC, and the gallery features one key image representing the photographer, together with an extract from the televised programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/

Typographic Archives
The Typographic Archives website aims to "preserve valued web contents on typography and history of printing and writing" by archiving the contents of relevant websites that no longer exist. At the time of writing the site includes short biographies of a few of the more famous names in the history of typography, including: William Caxton; Johannes Gutenberg; and William Caslon, as well as a glossary of typographical terms and an excerpt from Beatrice Warde's lecture to the British Typographers' Guild.
http://www.typographia.org/

Robert Rauschenberg Prints
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC from 28 October, 2007 to 30 March, 2008, this website provides information about prints made by American artist Robert Rauschenberg. The website concentrates on the 1960s, with his "painterly prints filled with images he clipped from newspapers and magazines", 1970s when the artist established his own print facility, Untitled Press, and 1980s and 1990s when he traveled extensively and started to use his own photographs in his art, partly for copyright reasons.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/rauschenberg/

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The Power of Cartoons
New on TED Talks: in a series of witty punchlines, Patrick Chappatte makes a poignant case for the power of the humble cartoon. His projects in Lebanon, West Africa and Gaza show how, in the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/patrick_chappatte_the_power_of_cartoons.html

The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field. The archive is a work in progress and currently includes a catalogue of more than 296 productions, 75 video clips, and online videos of over 30 full productions.
http://globalshakespeares.org/

Music Treasures Consortium
The Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives. Researchers can search or browse materials and view digital images.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/treasures/treasures-home.html

The Future Designer
The first of a series of ThinkTanks from the V&A Museum on future issues facing contemporary design. This ThinkTank looks at The Future Designer. Watch the videos and join in the online debate.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/thinktank1/

Syd Mead
Exclusive MP3 interview with Syd Mead, the influential conceptual designer of cinematic cult classics such as Tron, Blade Runner and Aliens. What is the role of dreaming in envisioning the future, why flying cars have not become science-fact yet, and what has Syd learned about designing for the real world from designing classic sci-fi space odysseys.
http://khotanharmon.com/audio/Syd%20Mead.mp3


Prunella Clough
Tate Online has provided this resource on the archive of the artist Prunella Clough (1919-1999). This archive was acquired by the Tate after the artist`s death and has been organised under two headings `Inspirations' and `Working Methods'. Clough wrote detailed descriptions of things that caught her eye, as well as making thumbnail sketches which later informed her work. `Working Methods' shows images she cropped to create effects, reworked postcards, materials, notes on colour, descriptions of artwork and the artist at work.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/prunellaclough/interactive.shtm

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Unconventional Art
Today’s TED playlist exhibits art that transcends the museum wall. These speakers, all artists or creators, talk about their unusual means to remarkable ends. Jonathan Harris creates digital artscapes out of Eskimo feasts, balloon wishes and the Internet’s feelings. Robert Lang revolutionizes a centuries-old paper pastime through simple (or maybe not-so-simple) mathematics. Vik Muniz finds art supplies in unlikely places — dirt, chocolate, diamonds, clouds. Miru Kim explores massive abandoned underground places — and then photographs herself in them, nude, to bring these dark spaces into sharp focus.
http://blog.ted.com/2010/08/11/unconventional-art-todays-tedtalks-playlist/
John Cage and Contemporary Art

BALTIC Curator Alessandro Vincintelli talks to artists Graham Gussin, Katie Paterson and Sam Belinfante about the new Cage Mix exhibition and the influence of John Cage on contemporary art practice.
http://www.balticmill.com/podcasts/

Silent Animation

This website gives online access to the UCLA archive of animations from the silent era of cinema. At May 2010, 11 vintage films from 1900 to 1928 are freely available for online viewing. Also available are commentaries from the preservationists involved, film notes, and information on the historical context. A Study Guide is available for download in PDF format. Films are also available for download in either MPEG2 or MP4 format.
http://animation.library.ucla.edu/
Roomle
Roomle is an online design tool which allows you to create floor plans, room layouts and designs simply and easily for free.
http://www.roomle.com/
Digital Comic Museum
Digital Comic Museum is a very large website archive of U.S. comic books known to be in the public domain. As such, it includes a wealth of high-quality scans of vintage comics, freely available for reading. Most comics are from the 1940s and 1950s. Some newspaper comic strips are also included. Files are in the standard CBR (Comic Book Reader) format, for which Comical is possibly the best free viewer. Free registration is required to download the comics, but not to search the website. The Digital Comic Museum will be a valuable resource for those researching the history of comics in the U.S., as well as for those interested in the dynamic hand-made typography of the medium, the depiction of stereotypes during the 20th century, and the ways that the standards and politics of the time were presented to children.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/
AdViews

AdViews: a digital archive of vintage television commercials' is an online collection from Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The archive contains "thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s ... created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles". Videos can be browsed or searched, and viewed via iTunes service. The archive seems especially rich in animated U.S. adverts from the 1950s and 1960s. It will be useful for those interested in branding, product design, post-war typography, mass media depictions of stereotypes, commercial animation, and the history of advertising in the USA.
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adviews/

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