new media

Macromedia Flash sites of the day

Launching live on January 20, 2005, the 5th Annual Sundance Online Film Festival showcases the same short films as its namesake event, as well as exclusive Behind the Scenes filmmaker interviews and the special Frontier section – a dedicated program of the most explosive new work in experimental media being created just for the Web. Best of all, it’s free from anywhere in the world @ www.sundance.org

designers

delaware japanese design studio. Their stuff is like atari on acid!

dextro beautiful abstract motion graphics using math and the power of director to push pixels

 

graphic art

Drawn and Quarterly (comic book publishing company) -- Beautifully designed site as you would expect from masters of the graphic arts... I love the studios which are all slightly different. Preview works by greats such as Robert Crumb and Seth.

art

www.ubu.com    a vast archive of surrealist art, music and video from past to present

activism

www.adbusters.org lots of counter-(corporate)-cultural memes

www.mediacarta.org are attempting to break the corporate stranglehold on mass media -- good luck!

memetics

find out about this fascinating new science here 

people

Douglas Rushkoff - insightful commentator on popular culture and media

Genesis P-Orridge - prolific writer, artist and musician who invented 'Industrial Music' as a founder of the band Throbbing Gristle... started the whole body piercing craze... Early pioneer of 'rave' movement in UK and USA ... and developed hs own peculiar spelling of english!

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