Professor Heidi Kumao, Associate Professor University of Michigan School of Art and Design Instructor email: hkumao@umich.edu
Web Resources for Animation, Video, Time-based Art, other Arts updated 12.06.08 email me with suggestions! A work-in-progress...
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Advice/How-to Free downloads (images, movies, sounds) Online video/animation-- to watch Stop-motion animation Other animation/video art sites Flip books	Art & Artists-performance, actions, body Audio art, sites Flash specific Political animations, games Art & Artists-image based Art & Artists-sculpture, space, kinetics	Online culture Festivals, conferences Local, Ann Arbor resources, organizations
ADVICE/HOW TO
Garageband Tutorials - helpful video tutorials to get you started making, editing, mixing audio FrameThief tips- from Heidi for basic NTSC standard movie making FrameThief for 16x9 format - for Animation for Broadcast class Creative Cow - has great forums and video tutorials for many different softwares, After Effects, Final Cut, etc. 2-Pop - forum for video, motion graphics, special FX, etc. After Effects User Listserv - excellent listserve with amazing people on it, subscribe to digest mode Apple's Final Cut EXPRESS video tutorials - excellent for beginners Apple's Final Cut STUDIO video tutorials - for those having Final Cut Pro Heidi's Final Cut Express How to page Lynda.com's FREE tutorials - excellent video tutorials, subscribers get access to all of them for $25/month Heidi's High Def video/animation tip sheet - for HD, HDV Heidi's rendering tip sheet for scaling down: HDTV to DV-NTSC 720x480
FREE DOWNLOADS--MOVIES, IMAGES, SOUNDS
UM Visual Resources--online image collections accessible to you from UM Library--LOTS of special collections available to you because of UM affiliation Library of Congress FLICKR photo stream, 1000's of photos from 1900's-1940's Prelinger Internet Movie Archive: 1000's of public domain/copyright-free ads, documentaries, etc... Google Video--all kinds of stuff over 10 minutes You Tube --all kinds of stuff up to Google Earth--satellite maps of everything. Find your house! Free Play - downloadable music and other stuff Early Motion Picture Archive - Library of Congress archive small quicktimes of b/w, silent movies, U.S. historical events, actions Terra Server- huge collection of USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps American Memory Historical collections - national digital library of the Library of Congress
ON-LINE ANIMATION & VIDEO & ART & BLOGS--WEB SITES to watch
Play Gallery - School of Art and Design's very own online video channel for time-based work. Submit your work today! Play Gallery's favorites on YouTube Wooster Collective - INCREDIBLE STUFF ON THIS PAGE UBU Web--great site for artists' videos New York Times: SCREENS BLOG--writings, features about video, tv, viral video, etc. STUART--Saatchi Gallery in London's STudent ART site. Submit your work today! Illegal Art.org - great remixes of movies, news, etc. Cyclope - Netherlands Media Art Institute. Artists' videos, REAL PLAYER needed Aardman Animations - from the people who brought you Creature Comforts, Wallace & Gromit Flicker Film and Video Artists - giant list of video artists Post-video art online--nice site for experimental video Learning to Love You More - great art "assignments" that are executed by anyone who wishes to do them Atom Films - online movie channel/presenter Adult Swim-cartoons for adults on television Cube-Creative-French animation studio (is it better because it's in French?) look at: driving animation INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS, ANIMATIONS, FILMS Jacqueline Goss - animations about applying scientific and political systems to irregular things, like PEOPLE! TYGER--Beautiful 2D/3D slightly dark animation Ezra Johnson - animated paintings as screensavers for DIA Art Foundation--gorgeous! Jim Duesing - Animator (2D & 3D)with some terrific storyboards and notes TELLING STORIES WITH PICTURES/VOICEOVER Ripped from the Pages of Real Life: real audio story telling with After Effects animation of photos, etc.... Story of Stuff - by FreeRange Graphics, the ones who brought you the MEATRIX about corporate farming Demetri Martin - young comedian on Comedy Central, monologs with stick figure pictures Whale Hunt - visual journal with photos taken every 5 minutes Paul Zaloom - performance artist/storyteller uses props and tells stories MUSEUM SITES American Museum of the Moving Image Dia Art Foundation-web art projects Whitney Museum-check out the ARTPORT exhibitions SF MoMA -Web projects on their E-Space
STOP MOTION ANIMATION/PIXILATION (using humans as objects)
PES--terrific stop-motion animator, watch the "how to" videos as well Jan Svankmajer - THE Czech animation genius National Film Board of Canada presents the best animation from the last 50 years (GREAT STUFF) -check out Norman McLaren Sandow Birk and Paul Zaloom's Dante's Inferno with Paper puppets in LA in 2005 Stop Motion.com list of sites--various things here David Crawford's stop motion studies using photographs taken on subway Death Cab for Cutie--"drawless animation", nice how-it-was-made piece
FLIP BOOKS
Flipbook.info-French collection with great videos of all kinds, antique, etc. of flip books being flipped! History of Flipbooks-illustrated Jack and Beverly's Optical toys- personal collection of pre-cinema devices Ruth Hayes' site- flipbooks and IPOD animation sequences (!) check it out... Daumenkino-flip book in action Human Flip book-on a T-shirt Polaroid stop motion piece-WOW. Post-It Notes gone WILD! Sports flip book with sound effects Matrix style flip book drawings
ART AND ARTISTS::::Performance/Actions/Body/Activism
Look on UBU WEB for many more... 1960s Yoko Ono- Fluxus artist, performer, former spouse of John Lennon, REAL TIME performances 1970s Yves Klein - "Action" paintings using women as his paintbrushes Fluxus films - see this page for all kinds of films, scroll down 1970s William Wegman - classic video performances with his dogs, see Early Videos, Stomach Song, many others Chris Burden -daring, death defying acts documented well Vito Acconci-early conceptual artist who expands art beyond the gallery, using public space, his body 1980s Ana Mendieta - figurative performances w/gun powder, blood, natural forms Tehching Hsieh - originator of the intense year long durational performances Paul Zaloom - aka Beakman the science guy, known for his stories told with objects and overhead projectors Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh - audio interview about their year long performance tied together from Studio 360 1990s Tim Miller - one of the famed NEA four 2000s Patty Chang-provacative performances for the camera Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping - "revives activism by staging it in new places" The Yes Men -perfecting the art of impersonation for good causes, they call it "Identity Correction", Yes Men Movie online!
Art and Artists - image based: movies, animation, net, software
Tony Oursler - video projection on objects, neurotic people speak Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Morgan O'Hara - her "live transmission" drawings translate live performances, activities, check out the video
ART & ARTISTS::::kinetic, robotic, sculptural, machines
Stephen Wilson's comprehensive page of links to artists using technology Ken Rinaldo - fusing organic and technological cultures, see his links pages for more resources Automata and Mechanical toys - GREAT how-to site, explanation of mechanisms is here Fischli and Weiss- "The Way Things Go," beautiful chain reaction film Jean Tinguely - orginator of the self destructing machine, video here, self-portrait as a machine, Rebecca Horn - elegant kinetic sculptures using everyday objects: fluttering wings, recent work, hammering brick bldg, Survival Research Laboratories - (SRL) SF based industrial grade mega machines Arthur Ganson - beautifully designed constructions, a delight to watch! Tim Hawkinson - GREAT VIDEOS! obsessive homemade machines on a monumental scale, check out the UBERORGAN Sabrina Raaf - responsive sculpture, wearables, interactive devices Fernando Orellana- playful machine art and other curious devices Amy Youngs - biological art and interactive sculpture Trimpin - inventive mechanical sound-based sculpture, documentary here Joseph Kohnke - well-crafted anthropomorphic machines
ART AND ARTISTS::::TACTICAL MEDIA
Critical Art Ensemble Beatriz da Costa - interdisciplinary tactical media projects that critique scientific practices The Yes Men - perfecting the art of impersonation for good causes: "Identity Correction" Institute for Applied Autonomy Carbon Defense League - check out their RECODE project
AUDIO SITES
Third Coast Audio - festival from Chicago This American Life - Great weekly themed radio programs out of WBEZ-Chicago. Excellent! Turbulence.org - Specializes in showcasing networked art and audio projects New Radio and Performing Arts - experimental radio and sound arts Somewhere.org --Full length works --check out and listen Soundtoys.net --showplace for audio visual projects Transom.org --Showcase and workshop for new public radio produced by Jay Allison. Includes archive of audio programs and technical resources, discussion Hearing Voices - Billed as a mini-museum of radio artistry. StoryCorps - Traveling audio booth that lets ordinary people record stories with friends and families, reproduced and broadcast on NPR This I Believe - radio series of people writing, sharing, and discussing the core values and beliefs that guide their daily lives Free109point3 - audio art, radio art, "transmission arts" AUDIO ART/Sculpture/Instruments/ Trimpin - kinetic musical object maker extraordinaire, Documentary on him, Performance at UM w/Cello, Experience Music Project large guitar sculpture David Byrne's "Playing the Building" 2008 Nina Katchedourian's Natural Car Alarms (on NPR), 2002-bird sounds replace car alarms Christian Marclay - visual artist, composer, uses record players as instruments Paul DeMarinis - electronic media artist/sound object installations, lecture here, other movies here Christina Kubisch - reprogrammed a clocktower at Mass MOCA Vegetable Orchestra--exactly what it sounds like! Videos are great. Sonic Memorial - Commemorating 9/11, tons of really great audio and interesting interfaces, check out Stephen Vitiello's audio recordings of the World Trade Center (search in Archive under "Vitiello"), Stephen Vitiello on Studio 360 Shawn Decker - audio installation Ed Osborn - sound artist & sculptor Ken Butler - hybrid stringed instruments made from household objects Theremin -musical instrument that uses radio waves and a delicate hand, Clara Rockmore-master of the theremin, Samuel Hoffman plays How to turn a bicycle into a record player - 2 people locked in a room make it happen Avant Garde Music Luigi Russolo and the Futurists' Manifesto "The Art of Noise" (1913) Harry Partch - composer and custom instrument maker, BBC Documentary-shows his interest in visual objects Harry Partch - Interesting site that allows you to "play" Harry Partch's instruments! John Cage - avant garde composer, embraced chance music, "prepared pianos" and other non standard uses of musical instruments 4'33" - famous piece during which the performers are silent for 4'33"--the piece is all the OTHER sounds that occur during this time Water Walk - Television performance using variety of objects, Speaking About Silence and Sound, Noise performance Fluxus artists - combine everyday objects/music/performance: G. Brecht's Drip Music, Paik and Moorman's TV Bra Cello Laurie Anderson - musician, performance artist, storyteller, documentary here on her NASA residency Matthew Herbert: electronic musician, Manifesto here
FLASH SPECIFIC: Free Range Graphics--great design firm that does work for political groups and non-profit organizations Meatrix etc... Albino Black Sheep - great Honda Ad using the car parts in a series of perpetual movements Figli Migli animation- work of Alex Budovsky Storybeat.tv - some very nice graphics and interfaces Flash Forward 2005 - Flash User conference Black Mustache - GREAT flash political parodies The End of the World - hilarious hand drawn animation that takes a global view of politics A is for Apple - visually rich and very fun non-commercial interactive artwork nobodyhere.com - playful series of interactive screens Fly Guy -terrific interactive story, very playful and inventive Girls Allowed - screen by screen story telling Young-Hae Chang--text based flash pieces, sometimes x-rated, check out Perfect Artistic Web Site macboy.com--check out the animation, DAD vs. AOL, and the Mac Switch parodies Flash Film Festival 2003 --Flash-specific pieces in a variety of catagories--LOTS of examples bzzzpeek-flash animation with different cultures' animal sounds Comics online - Wednesday Cooper.com, cool way to display still drawings The Meatrix - just what it sounds like! Egomedia.com Homestarrunner.com - cartoons of all kinds, nice tv interface I can't read Borges - 1st person narrative about reading Borges Music "video" WEEEEEEEEE - featuring a little hopping squirrel Une Heure Cinq - quirky animations taking place in diff. parts of a city Locus Novus: A Synthesis of Text and Image
POLITICAL CARTOONS AND VIDEOS Too Stupid to Be President -great parodies of tv media, presidential coverage State of the Union speech1 - remixed State of the Union speech 2 - remixed Leader of the Free World? - fun interface Bush debating himself? - video remix Alphabetizing Bush speech - great! moveon.org--did public call for work for anti-Bush, 30 second advertisements, check 'em out! about.com--Political humor/photoshopped images "Time to Bomb Saddam"--Madblast's musical animation Animations and cartoons about War in Iraq and Saddam Hussein meatrix.com - MATRIX redone by Free Range Graphics Bush games - many flash examples Bush Recall-another political animation DIY Media.net - video remixes of Bush, et. al. Bush State of Union - "during these last few months, I've been trained by AlQueda. I'm weak..." Bush Background Generator Internet Weekly Report - variety of Flash, quicktime movies, still, BLOGs with tons of links
GAMES/Interactive Audio Game.net Cat bowling - simple shooter game without guns Dancing Bush - simple flash DANCE commands Bush Speech maker - flash interface
ON-LINE JOURNALS/ZINES/forums/discussions Rhizome - online journal of digital culture, art, critical theory about technology, interviews Teleopolis - magazine of net culture The thing.net--online forum for digital art projects, writings Nettime.org – online discussions about electronic culture, contemporary art, politics Undercurrents -(hosted by thing.net) forum about the interrelations of cyberfeminism, new technologies and globalization Faces - women artists in new media listserv C-Theory - edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker Polar Inertia - photos, videos, writings on the global landscape
ART FESTIVALS, CONFERENCES
Filmfestivals.com - all the information you could ever want for submitting work to festivals Resfest.com – digital film/video fest Flash Forward - flash users conference in SF ISEA - International Symposium on electronic art--2002 Siggraph- " promotes the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques" Ars Electronica-festival of electronic art, Linz, Austria DEAF - Amsterdam's Dutch Electronic Arts Festival eNarrative - in conjunction with Boston CyberArts Lost Film Festival - accepts mostly shorts, they like work with a socio-political bent Performa-New visual Art Performance festival in NYC, organized by Roselee Goldberg TBA-"Time Based Arts" festival out of Portland, OR Burning Man - every September ANIMATION/FILM / Digital ART FESTIVALS ONLINE South by Southwest --excellent, Austin, Texas based Interactive, Film, and Music festival. Check out animations Boston CyberArts Festival New York City Animation Festival - Sept. 2001 New York Digital Salon- presented by the School of Visual Arts, NYC, 8th Annual Salon Gallery
U OF M / AREA RESOURCES
Askwith Film/Video Library in Undergrad library, central U of M campus Visual Resources Library - basement of the Media Union, has selection of videos you can check out or view there Duderstadt Center - Reserve the V-Room for audio recording Ann Arbor Film Festival - oldest experimental film festival in the country , every March, get involved, volunteer
VIDEO ACTIVISM AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS Video Activist Network--great resource, interested in using video to create social change
ALTERNATIVE TV : Indy Media.org -Independent Media Channel Paper Tiger TV - NYC grassroots tv Free Speech TV - artist/activist organization that "uses tv to cultivate and inform an active citizenry" Indy Media.org - collective of independent news media organizations dedicated to democratic reporting/news coverage. Search their archives for quicktimes Guerrilla News Network-countering the media barrage of government and corporate-sponsored "news"