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10eastern
10eastern is a website known for its 'Drawings
Boards' and its 'Found Photos' project.
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12oz Prophet
12oz Prophet, created in 1993, is an online
magazine featuring articles, pictures, and interviews related to graffiti. In
the past it was a print magazine; however, today it exists in the form of an
online magazine with an online forum and store.
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American Memory
American Memory is an Internet-based archive
for public domain image resources, as well as audio, video, and archived Web
content. It is published by the Library of Congress. The archive came into
existence on October 13, 1994 after $13,000,000 was raised in donations.
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Art.Net
Art.Net is a non-profit web-based artist
collective of more than 450 artists, poets, musicians, painters, sculptors,
animators, hacker artists, and other creative people from around the world,
aimed at helping artists share their works on the World Wide Web. Also known as
Art on the Net, the site was established in June, 1994 with a manifesto and
statement of purpose as an Internet art project site and online art gallery.
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Artcyclopedia
Artcyclopedia is an online database of
museum-quality fine art founded by Canadian John Malyon. The Artcyclopedia only
deals with art that can be viewed online, and indexes 2,300 art sites (from
museums and galleries), with links to around 180,000 artworks by 8,500 renowned
artists. The site has also started to compile a list of art galleries and
auction houses.
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ArtDaily
ArtDaily is an Internet-based media company
founded in 1996 by editor-in-chief Ignacio Villarreal and a group of
professionals in the art world. Its website is presented as an online newspaper,
with content updated each day of the week. Its headquarters are located in
Mexico City.
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Artworld Salon
Artworld Salon is a blog for news and opinion
on the contemporary art scene. It was founded by arts journalists Marc Spiegler,
Ian Charles Stewart, and András Szántó.
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Blackbird
Blackbird (an online journal of literature and
the arts) is an internet journal that posts two issues a year, May 1 and
November 1. During the six month run of an issue, additional content appears as
"featured" content. Previous issues are archived online in their entirety.
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Conan vs. bear
"Conan vs. bear" is a comedic web site,
lampooning the prospect of Conan O'Brien fighting bears. Artists from around the
world have sent in images and videos with their own take on this theme.
Currently the site boasts over 400 unique renderings, as well as several
original videos inspired by the site. The web site was noted by Conan O'Brien on
Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
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DaFont
DaFont is an archive of freely downloadable
fonts. Fonts are categorized by theme, and can also be sorted by name, date, and
popularity. The site also allows users to enter custom text when previewing
fonts. According to Alexa, the site has a global ranking of roughly 1,000 on the
web.
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DeviantArt
DeviantArt (official typeset as deviantART;
commonly abbreviated as dA) is a Worldwide online community with worldwide
appeal showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It was first launched on
August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others.
DeviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles,
California, United Kingdom. As of October 2009 the site consists of over 11
million members, over 100 million submissions, and receives around 100,000
submissions per day. The domain deviantart.com attracted at least 36 million
visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study.
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Elftown
Elftown is an Internet community or social
networking site for people interested in fantasy and science fiction. It was
started as the official Elfwood social networking site in February 2002 by
Henrik Wallin. Later on the project became separated and more like sister sites,
and the split became more tangible in 2007 when Elfwood's servers moved from
Lysator, while Elftown's hardware remained there.
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Freaking News
Freaking News is a news oriented Photoshop
contest site, that came online August 2, 2002 and officially opened on October
23, 2003 as a sister site of Worth1000. According to Alexa Internet, Freaking
News is one of the top 10,000 sites in the world. This virtual community of
17,000+ digital artists and members features free daily Photoshop contests that
are fueled by global news and events. Since its inception, Freaking News has
been featured on television shows, magazines and newspapers, including Comedy
Central, MTV, Weekly World News, Glenn Beck Show, Stern Magazine, The Guardian,
The Daily News, The Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Mail, and
The Sun.
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GFXartist
GFXartist is an online artistic community where
digital artists can profile themselves and get in touch with peers and
enthusiasts through their work. It was first launched in January, 2000 and
revised at several occasions. The last revision took place in early 2002 and
resulted in the relaunch of GFXartist in the shape is it in today on March 3,
2002. GFXartist is the creation of Arno Drost, Martin Kool and Martijn van Zal.
Joined in 2003 by Marvin Ronk, all four are also partners in the new media firm
Brothers in art.
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InterArtCenter
InterArtCenter social network is a popular
online community for international digital and fine art artists. Canadian
multimedia artist George Grie initiated it in 2002 as a personal artwork
portfolio. InterArtCenter Inc. is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and hosted
by Yahoo! Inc.. The domains of interartcenter.net network draw 50 million page
views annually by 2009 according to a Compete.com study.
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Louise Blouin Media
Louise Blouin Media is an art magazine
publishing company which was founded in 2001 by Louise Blouin MacBain and is
under the parent company LTB Holding. Louise Blouin Media's titles include
Art+Auction, Culture+Travel, Gallery Guide, and Modern Painters magazines.
ARTINFO (www.artinfo.com) is the online destination of Louise Blouin Media and
was launched in 2005. Louise Blouin launched MYARTINFO in 2007 as a social
networking site for artists. Louise Blouin Media also owns Somogy, the global
art book publisher, and publishes art price guides from Art Sales Index,
Gordon’s and Davenport’s.
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MINUS SPACE
MINUS SPACE is a curatorial project located in
Brooklyn, NY. It has gallery and web site devoted to reductive art.
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Otium
Otium is an online prose magazine produced by
students at the University of Chicago. It publishes fiction, non-fiction, stage,
and interviews called "conversations" on a quarterly basis. Latin for leisure or
ease, the name Otium, signifies the magazine's mission to connect play with
work, and pleasure with critical thinking.
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Paper Project
The Paper Project is a fusion project that
blends art, science, and technology into engaging 2D and 3D experiences.
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Pixiv
Pixiv is a Japanese online community for
artists. It was first launched as a beta test on September 10, 2007 by Takahiro
Kamitani. Pixiv Inc. is headquartered in Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. As of
June 2009, the site consists of over 1 million members, over 4.9 million
submissions, and receives over 15,000 submissions per day. Pixiv aims to provide
a place for artists to exhibit their illustrations and get feedback via a rating
system and user comments. Works are organized in an extensive tag structure
which forms the backbone of the website.
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SIKART
SIKART is a biographical dictionary and a
database on visual art in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is published online
by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIAR). Conceptually and in terms of
content, it is an expanded and continually updated online version of the SIAR's
1998 Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Art, which featured 12,000 short entries and
some 1,100 detailed biographical articles.
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Sagan 4
Sagan 4 is a multi-national fictional
exobiology art project. It was inspired by Carl Sagan's television show; Cosmos:
A Personal Voyage.
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Skull-A-Day
Skull-A-Day is an ongoing online art
project/blog created by artist Noah Scalin. For its first year the site
consisted of daily skull art creations made by Noah as well as weekly
submissions by fans of the project. After Noah finished his project, he has
continued to post daily images of skulls created by fans to the site.
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The One Million Masterpiece
The One Million Masterpiece (abbreviated OMM)
is the largest artistic collaboration ever attempted. It is an ongoing project
to produce a true piece of global artwork. As of October 16, 2007, 26,582
artists from 174 countries have participated, with $19,348.57 raised for
charities worldwide.
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Ugallery
Ugallery, LLC operates Ugallery.com, an online
art gallery for student artists and recent graduates. The website features “a
roster of more than 125 artists from 70 universities and colleges” around the
country. The company was founded in June 2006 by University of Arizona
graduates, Stephen Tanenbaum, Alex Farkas, and Greg Rosborough.
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VGBoxArt
VGBoxArt (commonly abbreviated VGBA) is an
online community for video game hobbyists to showcase and discuss their mock-up
boxarts, which are organized by the respective gaming console. As of 2008, is
has been extended to accustom artwork of other nature such as Posters, Album
covers and DVD covers. As of March 2009, the website has over 15,000 members,
with 17,000 boxart submissions and 200,000 comments being made.
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Virtual Collection of Masterpieces
Virtual Collection of Masterpieces (VCM) is an
international internet project created and maintained by the Asia-Europe
Foundation under the specific operation of its Asia-Europe Museum Network
(ASEMUS). The project displays images of art masterpieces donated by museums
along with text describing the history of each piece and what makes it a
masterpiece.
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WinCustomize
WinCustomize is a website that provides content
for users to customize Microsoft Windows. The site hosts thousands of skins,
themes, icons, wallpapers, and other graphical content to modify the Windows
graphical user interface. There are some premium or paid content, however the
vast majority of the content is free for users to download.
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Wooster Collective
Wooster Collective is a website founded in 2003
that showcases street art from around the world. It is dedicated to showcasing
and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.
Updated by Marc and Sara Schiller, the site also offers podcasting with music
and interviews featuring street artists.
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WorldArt Kiosk
The WorldArt Kiosk is a web-based educational
photo archive of artwork from around the world. The project is directed by
Professor Kathleen Cohen of San Jose State University's Art Department though
many of the archive's photos are contributed by other faculty and students.
The archive's more than 35,000 color images of paintings, sculptures and
artifacts are free to use for non-profit educational purposes with credit given
to the copyright holders.
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Worth1000
Worth1000 is an image manipulation and contest
website. Worth1000 opened on January 1, 2002 and hosts over 340,000 unique
images made in theme contests such as "Rejected Transformers", "Invisible
World", and "Stupid Protests". In mid-2003, Worth1000 began hosting similar
competitions for photography, text, and multimedia.
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