Websites for New Media & Web Art and Design

1. Interesting Video & Film Artists

Shirin Neshat

http://www.time.com/time/europe/photoessays/neshat/

http://www.iranian.com/Arts/Dec97/Neshat/

Bill Viola

http://www.billviola.com/

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/viola/

Matthew Barney, Cremaster Cycle, Guggenheim Musuem

http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/barney/

2. Art Sites

http://www.nga.gov/

National Gallery of Art

You can take Virtual Tours and also see Virtual Exhibitions of Calder, Van Gogh, etc.

http://www.digitalartsource.com/index2.shtml

Digital Art Source: Opening the world of digital art

http://www.diacenter.org/webproj/index.html

Dia Center: Artists’ Web Projects

http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/default.htm

Tate Gallery London Net Art

http://www.blessed-bandwidth.net/

Get Blessed by Shilpa Gupta Choose a Religion, Get Blessed, Feel Secure

http://www.michaeldonnellan.com/ Artist site

http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/about.cfm Vancouver Art Gallery

http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html Create your own Picasso face

http://www.webbyawards.com Web award site “The Oscars of the Internet”

http://www.deviantart.com/ Deviously serving the art and skin community for 1,946 days.

http://www.henningludvigsen.com Digital Artist’s Site

http://www.erowid.org/culture/art Internet psychedelic art

http://www.guerillagirls.com/ Guerilla Girls website—still around, still protesting with humor

http://www.deviantart.com/ Sleek design, contemporary art on the web

3. Game Sites

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

Somewhat simple and soothing web games (Check out ‘Cats’!)

http://www.zombo.com You can do anything at zombo.com. The only limit is yourself.

http://www.gamespot.com/ VideoGames Site

www.gameboy.com Gameboy

http://www.ea.com/ Game designer group

http://www.softnyx.net/ Game site, dark colors, Korean style cartoon

4. Photography Sites

www.flickr.com Flickr Share your Photos

http://www.hdphoto.com/ Architectural Photography Site

http://www.icp.org/ International Center of Photography

www.somethingawful.com/photoshop website where photos are humorously altered

http://www.artpaw.com/ Custom portraits and background choices for your pets

5. Band/Musician Sites

www.coldplay.com Band website

www.rilokiley.com Band website with cute red owl flying around

www.destinyschild.com. Destiny’s Child band site, done in shades of brown

www.tyrabanks.com Very stylish site for this model, done in black/white/gray

www.jayzmovie.com/index2.html Jay-Z Fade to Black advertisement using flash to preview movie/album

6. Anime Sites

http://www.saizen-fansubs.com/ Anime fan site

7. Hard to Categorize

http://yugop.com/ Purposefully difficult to navigate

http://www2.mms.com/us/minizone/minismarvel/Story of mini M&M’s and how they get into trouble, interactive.

http://www.wordsatplay.com/

You sort of have to see this one to appreciate it. Word games/rearrangements, with lots of talking in the background.

http://www.brokenheartedgirl.com/Getting over your ex-- for women, done in hot pink

http://www.seizurerobots.com/The most blindingly colorful website there is!

http://www.comeclean.com/Website for confessions

8. Science/News/Sports/History

http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html NASA: photos of universe, planets, etc.

http://landing.ancestry.com/military/vday/Interesting site, moves from snapshots of soldiers to stories of where they served, etc.

http://tenbyten.org/10x10.html

Interestingly laid out news site

http://www.t-mac.com/tmac2/

Homepage of Rocket super-star Tracy McGrady

9. Businesses

http://www.sprint.com/Business website, clear with nice colors and moving graphics

www.louisvuitton.comCommercial site for designer/classic but modern sounding music

http://www.arnoldworldwide.com

Advertising firm, interesting opening page with names floating around

www.mazdausa.comAuto website

www.havaianas.com.br Popular Brazlian thongs, very colorful and fun imagery

http://www.vintagekicks.com/Vintage sport shoes (up to $700)

10. Graphic Design

http://csszengarden.com/

Zen Garden, demonstrates what visual/graphics/web artists can do with cascading style sheet designs.

http://www.defunker.com/ Website featuring cool t-shirt designs

http://www.sofake.com/ SoFake.com professional web design firm

http://www.2advanced.com Web design firm, very techno style.

11. Movies, Trailers, etc.

http://www.saw2.com/ “There will be blood in theaters everywhere” (Creepy)

http://na.square-enix.com/dvd/ff7ac/ Final Fantasy Advent Children

Super-realistic anime type imagery, click on “trailers”