*Art History: General Research Guide

Art distributor. ARTPIX is dedicated to presenting and archiving contemporary art for educational, experimental, documentary and archival purposes, and makes use of the multimedia capabilities of CD-ROM, DVD, and DVD-ROM formats to expand and enhance the experience of contemporary art. NOT free.

Digital Art Museum is an online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art. It informs on historical and on contemporary positions chosen by an advisory panel

e-flux is a publishing platform and archive, artist project, curatorial platform, and enterprise which was founded in 1998.

Founded in 1971, EAI is a nonprofit resource that fosters the creation, exhibition, distribution and preservation of media art.

The Center’s extensive media arts collection of videotapes and DVDs is being archived and housed at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media. The Experimental Television Center’s Video History Project is an on-going research initiative which documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US.

From their mission: "Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation."

Check out their "ArtBase." "Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art."

"Turbulence is a project of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA). Now celebrating 19 years, Turbulence has commissioned over 230 works and exhibited and promoted artists' work through its Artists Studios, Guest Curator, and Spotlight sections."

Video Art Database is dedicated to artforms of film and video in a global context as they are promoted by VideoChannel Cologne – video project environments; CologneOFF – Cologne Online Film Festival; Cinematheque -streaming media environments

"Founded at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement, the Video Data Bank (VDB) is a leading resource in the United States for video by and about contemporary artists. The VDB Collection includes the work of more than 550 artists and 5,500 video art titles, 2,500+ in active distribution."

The Whitney Museum's portal to net art, artists, exhibitions, and other resources