Web Resources
Animation, Video, Time-based Art, other Arts

Mostly used for teaching --updated 08/20/09
(a work-in-progress--email me w/suggestions)

• Advice/How-to
• Free downloads (images, movies, sounds)
• Online video/animation-- to watch
• Stop-motion animation
• Other animation/video art sites
• Flip books

• Online culture
• Festivals, conferences
• Local, Ann Arbor resources, organizations

UM Mother of all ART & Art History LINKS page--online image collections accessible to you from UM Library
Visual Resources for Professionals list--great list of links
Prelinger Internet Movie Archive:1000's of public domain/copyright-free ads, documentaries, etc...
Free Play - downloadable music and other stuff
Library of Congress--Prints & Photographs division, see their cool photostream on FLICKR
Terra Server- huge collection of USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps
American Memory Collections- US LIbrary of Congress great high resolution images

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
Motionographer - motion graphics site, student section
Wooster Collective- - INCREDIBLE STUFF ON THIS PAGE, great street art
UBU Web --great site for artists' videos from 1950s, 60s, 70s, etc.
DVblog - Art & Entertainment, QUICKTIME movies
New York Times: SCREENS BLOG, about television, digital culture
New York Times: Animated Life Blog
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 were executed by anyone who wanted to do them
Adult Swim-cartoons for adults on television
Cube-Creative-French animation studio (is it better because it's in French?) look at: driving animation --writings, fe

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 atures about video, tv, viral video, etc.
Diane Nerwen - appropriated, recycled and re-made
Virgil Widrich-Austrian digital filmmaker, outrageously laborious work
Lovely Productions - selected shorts by a small company in Ireland

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

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
This is Where We Live - GORGEOUS animation using publisher's books and paper as raw material

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
Marina Abramovic

1980s
Ana Mendieta - figurative performances w/gun powder, blood, natural forms
Tehching Hsieh - originator of the intense year long durational performance
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!

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