medialounge.net
an online database of art-political-cultural-digital activities in Europe, information about hundreds of different organisations and the networking between them

Links Finlandaises

MUU
association of experimental art and cultural production. the oldest (est.1988) media art organization in finland.

AV-ARKKI
distribution center for finnish media art.

Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki

Valon Voimat - festival
an annual art festival during the darkest winter, featuring works utilising light... takes place all over the Helsinki area.

surRender3d
our friends at hybrid have allowed us to use their extremely powerful and sophisticated surRender3d real-time 3d engine in our sound visualization and art installation projects... we love you guys, keep up the good work!

SUMEA
outstanding 3d java applets, nice games, a must-download WinAMP skin + more!

2000.hel.fi
Helsinki is one of the Cultural Capital Cities of Europe in the year 2000... info on the cultural events happening during that year can be found from this address.

www.lahna9000.com
lahna explores the outer limits of uselessness, in the best possible way. give the kids software and some time to kill...

www.hel13.com
advertising folks let off steam and produce an extravagantly phunky online magazine..

pHinnweb
everything you need to know about the history of electronic music in Finland plus anything else fringey or even remotely underground.

KUHA
strange music, soviet esthetics and a computer game featuring an alcoholic dromedary. you could do so much worse than spending a day at this site...

Baltic / Nordic links

bin
a network for cultural exchange and cooperation around the baltic sea.

Fylkingen
society devoted to the production of new music and intermedia art. stockholm, sweden

re-lab.net
people running the OZOne net.radio and the Xchange net.audio network amongst many other things... riga, latvia

Festivals that are worth it

sonar
a festival of experimental music held in barcelona.

onedotzero
a digital creativity festival at the ICA, london.

phonotaktik
electronic music festival in Vienna.

montréal international festival of new cinema and new media
festival showcasing innovative developments in the fields of cinema, video and new media.

ars electronica
festival for art, technology and society, focusing on electronic art and media theory. linz, austria

Experimental art / design / noise

dumb type
why is it that when the japanese get weird, they REALLY get weird? witness these friends of ours from kyoto.

fakeshop.com
an art collective located in williamsburg, brooklyn. they do everything and a lot of it on the web. or some people think they do. we don't even know.

jodi.org
be very afraid.

sensorband.com
suction.com
melondezign.com
audiorom.com
maedastudio.com
nofrontiere.com
backspace.org
shift.jp.org
fabrica.it
äda'web
thing.net

They're legit and we love them

ICA
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

ICC
NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo.

SAT
Société des Arts Technologiques, Montréal.

The Society for Old and New Media (De Waag)
Research and development centre for public applications of information technology, Amsterdam

ZKM
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe.

STEIM
Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam.

IRCAM
Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris.

DIEM
The Danish Institute for Electroacoustic Music, Aarhus.