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notes about art (2018 - )

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art-notes

About

art-notes is a list of art references and resources. It is a project by Aarón Montoya-Moraga.

Thanks to the people that have contributed to the project, including:

Statement

I am doing this because I always stumble upon beautiful art, and I want to share it, so that others can experience it too. It is also an exercise about being transparent and the politics and biases behind writing, indexing, privacy, identity, gender, open-source.

Contact

If you have any comment, send an email to montoyamoraga@gmail.com in order to be deleted, or post an issue on this GitHub repository.

Table of contents

Artists

  • Adán Jodorowsky wiki: French-Mexican musician, director and actor.
  • Adrian Belew wiki: American guitarist, musician, songwriter.
  • Ai Weiwei site wiki: Chinese contemporary artist and activist.
  • Alan Lomax wiki: American ethnomusicologist.
  • Alanis Morissette site wiki: Canadian-American singer, songwriter, musician.
  • Alex Anwandter site wiki: Chilean singer, songwriter, producer, filmmaker. Former member of Teleradio Donoso.
  • Allison Parrish site: American programmer, poet, educator, and game design.
  • Ana Tijoux wiki: French-Chilean musician, rapper. Former member of Makiza.
  • Andrés Calamaro site wiki: Argentine musician, singer, songwriter. Former member of Los Rodríguez.
  • Arca wiki: Venezuelan musician and producer.
  • Avey Tare site wiki: American musician, songwriter, member of Animal Collective.
  • Bennett Foddy site wiki: Australian video game designer.
  • Beck site wiki: American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist.
  • Beyoncé site wiki: American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress.
  • Billy Klüver wiki: electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories, founder of Experiments in Art and Technology.
  • Björk site wiki: Icelandic music composer, vocalist, producer.
  • Bob Dylan site wiki: American singer, songwriter, painter.
  • Brian Crabtree site: co-founder of Monome.
  • Brian Eno site wiki: English musician, composer, record producer.
  • Britney Spears site wiki: American singer, dancer, actress.
  • Camila Colussi site: Chilean artist.
  • Camila Moreno wiki: Chilean singer-songwriter.
  • Carlos Cabezas Rocuant wiki: Chilean singer, songwriter, record producer. Member of band Electrodomésticos.
  • Casey Reas site wiki: American artist, educator. Co-creator of Processing.
  • Cat Stevens site wiki: British singer-songwriter. Now goes by Yusuf Islam.
  • Chance the Rapper wiki: American rapper, singer and record producer.
  • Charly García wiki: Argentine singer-songwriter, musician, producer.
  • Christian Oyarzún site: Chilean artist, musician, programmer, educator.
  • Dafna Naphtali site: sound artist, vocalist, musician, educator.
  • Damien Hirst site wiki: Englist artist.
  • Daniel Rozin site wiki: Israeli-American artist, educator.
  • Daniel Shiffman site wiki: programmer, educator, project lead at the Processing Foundation.
  • Darius Kazemi site wiki: internet artist, co-founder of technology collective Feel Train.
  • Dave Fridmann wiki: American record producer.
  • David Byrne site wiki: Scottish-American musician, singer, songwriter. Member of band Talking Heads.
  • Dhruv Mehrotra site: American artist, programmer.
  • Drake wiki: Canadian rapper, singer and songwriter.
  • Ernesto Neto wiki: Brazilian visual artist.
  • Francesca Rodríguez-Sawaya site: Peruvian designer, programmer and educator.
  • Francisco Papasfritas site: Chilean painter and political artist.
  • Ge Wang site wiki: Chinese-American musician, computer scientist, app designer, educator.
  • Gepe wiki: Chilean singer, songwriter, drummer.
  • Gijs Gieskes site: Dutch musical artist.
  • Golan Levin site wiki: American new media artist, educator.
  • Gordon Matta-Clark wiki: American artist.
  • Gustavo Cerati wiki: Argentine singer-songwriter, composer, producer. Member of band Soda Stereo.
  • James Murphy: American musician, founder and frontman of LCD Soundsystem.
  • Javiera Mena site wiki: Chilean singer, songwriter.
  • Jayson Musson wiki: American artist.
  • Jeremy Bailey site: American new media artist.
  • John Cage wiki: American composer and music theorist.
  • John Maeda site wiki: American designer, educator.
  • Jonny Greenwood wiki: English guitarist, musician, composer. Member of band Radiohead.
  • Jorge González wiki: Chilean singer, songwriter, record producer. Member of band Los Prisioneros.
  • Joseph Beuys wiki: German Fluxus, happening and performance artist.
  • Juan Downey wiki : Chilean video artist.
  • Kanye West site wiki: American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer.
  • Kathleen Hanna site wiki: American singer, musician, artist, feminist activist. Member of bands Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Julie Ruin.
  • Kendrick Lamar wiki: American rapper and songwriter.
  • Kim Deal site wiki: American singer, songwriter, musician. Member of bands Pixies, The Amps and The Breeders.
  • Kim Gordon wiki: American musician, singer, songwriter, visual artist. Member of band Sonic Youth.
  • Kyle McDonald site: American artist working with code.
  • Lauren McCarthy site: American multimedia artist, creator of p5.js.
  • Les Claypool site wiki: American musician, singer, songwriter, and bassist. Member of Primus.
  • Limor Fried site wiki: American electrical engineer and owner of Adafruit Industries.
  • Luisa Pereira
  • Manuel Scorza wiki: Peruvian poet, novelist, and political activist.
  • Marina Abramović site wiki: Serbian performance artist.
  • Matt Romein site: American multimedia artist and performance artist.
  • Max Matthews
  • Merce Cunningham wiki: American dancer and choreographer.
  • Michael Stipe wiki: American musician, singer and songwriter, member of R.E.M.
  • Miller Puckette
  • Natalia Cabrera site: Chilean filmmaker, programmer, storyteller.
  • Natisú site: Chilean singer-songwriter.
  • Nels Cline
  • Nicanor Parra
  • Patricio González-Vivo site
  • Prince wiki: American musician, singer and songwriter.
  • Rafael Gumucio
  • Rafaël Rozendaal site wiki: Dutch-Brazilian visual artist.
  • Ramsey Nasser site: Lebanese computer scientist, game designer, and educator.
  • Raúl Zurita wiki: Chilean poet, part of the CADA collective.
  • Renata Gaui site: Brazilian designer and creative technologist.
  • Ricardo Dominguez wiki: American artist, professor, founder of Electronic Disturbance Theater.
  • R. Luke Dubois
  • Rodrigo Cadiz site wiki Chilean composer, researcher and engineer.
  • Roger Linn
  • Romain Gary wiki: French diplomat, novelist and film director.
  • Sam Lavigne site: American multimedia artist and programmer.
  • Sergio Mora-Diaz
  • Steve Reich
  • Steven Drozd
  • Taeyoon Choi site: Korean artist and co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation.
  • Tehching Hsieh site wiki: Taiwanese performance artist.
  • Thurston Moore
  • Tom Morello
  • Tristan Perich site wiki: American composer and sound artist.
  • Uwe Schmidt site wiki: German composer, musician, producer. Also known as Atom, Atom Heart, Señor Coconut.
  • Violeta Parra wiki: Chilean folklorist, singer, songwriter.
  • Walter de Maria
  • Wayne Coyne
  • Yotam Mann
  • Zach Lieberman

Bands

  • Animal Collective
  • Arcade Fire site wiki: Canadian band.
  • Ases Falsos
  • Atoms for Peace
  • Audioslave
  • Babasónicos
  • The Beach Boys
  • Beach House
  • The Beatles
  • Bon Iver site wiki: American band, founded by Justin Vernon.
  • The Books
  • Café Tacuba
  • Caravana
  • Chico Trujillo
  • The Clash
  • clipping site wiki
  • CocoRosie
  • Cocteau Twins
  • Congreso
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Crystal Castles
  • Daft Punk
  • Fother Muckers
  • The Dead Weather
  • Deerhoof
  • Deftones
  • Dënver
  • Die Antwoord
  • Dinosaur Jr.
  • The Doors
  • Echo and the Bunnymen
  • Él Mató A Un Policía Motorizado
  • Electrodomésticos
  • ESG
  • Faith No More
  • Flaming Lips
  • Fleetwood Mac
  • Fother Muckers
  • Frank Black & The Catholics
  • Fugazi
  • Future Bible Heroes
  • Kraftwerk
  • The Magnetic Fields
  • Makiza
  • Matmos
  • Los Mil Jinetes
  • Pixies
  • Radiohead
  • Los Rodríguez
  • Soda Stereo
  • Teleradio Donoso
  • Wu-Tang Clan
  • The xx

Books

  • Composing electronic music, curtis roads
  • Computer music tutorial, by Curtis Roads
  • electronic music - systems, techniques and controls, by allen strange
  • Grapefruit, by Yoko Ono
  • Handmade Electronic Music, by Nicolas Collins
  • Machine Learning for Artists, by Gene Kogan.
  • Marcel Duchamp The Afternoon Interviews, by Calvin Tomkins
  • Microsound, by Curtis Roads
  • Oblique Strategies wiki, by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt.
  • Programming electronic music in PD, by Johannes Kreidler
  • Programming for musicians and digital artists, by Ge Wang et al.
  • Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, by Lawrence Weschler, over thirty years of conversation with Robert Irwin.

Blogs

  • Hyperallergic
  • The King of Gear

Campaigns

Centers

  • CCRMA
  • CITA
  • HarvestWorks
  • IRCAM
  • MAT UCSB
  • IRCAM

Classes

  • Interactive Music, by Yotam Mann
  • New interfaces for musical expression
  • introduction to programming for musicians and digital artists, by ajay kapur at kadenze
  • Performing User: class by Lauren McCarthy at NYU ITP.

Collectives

  • CADA: Colectivo de Acciones de Arte.
  • Electros site: Chilean interdisciplinary collective, focusing on electronics and media arts. Historic members include Camila Colussi, Margarita Gómez, Carla Motto, Raúl Valles Contador, Rodrigo Toro, Nicole L'Huillier.
  • Electronic Disturbance Theater wiki
  • F.A.T. Lab site: the Free Art and Technology La bis an organization dedicated to enriching the publicdomain through the research and development of creative technologies and media.
  • Feel Train: technology collaborative co-founded by Courtney Stanton and Darius Kazemi.
  • Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries site wiki

Companies

  • Ableton
  • Acidlab
  • Adafruit
  • Apple
  • Arduino
  • Arturia
  • Bitwig
  • Bleep Labs
  • Fathom
  • Google
  • Fender
  • Gibson
  • Jomox
  • Keith McMillen
  • Korg
  • Make Noise
  • Monome
  • Moog
  • Motu
  • Mutable Instruments
  • Nintendo
  • Roland
  • Roli
  • Smule
  • Sony
  • Spotify
  • Tidal
  • Universal Audio
  • Walrus Audio
  • Whimsical Raps site

Compositions

Computers

  • Apple Macbook
  • Apple Macbook Air
  • Apple Macbook Pro
  • Atari
  • Google Chromebook
  • Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Conferences

Connectors

Festivals

  • eyeo
  • Grow: Paris creative coding festival
  • Moxsonic: Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts site
  • Primavera Hacker

Films

Formats

  • AIFF
  • FLAC
  • MOV
  • MP3
  • WAV

Foundations

Games

Galleries

Genres

  • Mockumentary

Instruments

Interfaces

  • Apogee Quartet
  • Focusrite Scarlett
  • Mackie
  • MOTU

Labels

  • 4AD
  • Algo records
  • Factory

Libraries

Microcontrollers

  • Arduino
  • Teensy

Microphones

Museums

  • The Bronx Museum of the Arts
  • Dia Beacon
  • MOMA
  • Met
  • MIMO site: musical instruments museums online
  • Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
  • New Museum
  • Whitney

Nonprofits

  • Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) site wiki: nonprofit arts organization for video and media art.

Orchestras

  • Plork
  • Slork

Organizations

Perception

Personas

  • Hennesy Youngman wiki: persona invented by Jayson Musson.

Pickups

  • Dean Markley

Playlists

  • ...

Podcasts

Power

  • Phantom power wiki

Prizes

  • Turner Prize: Annual prize presented to a British visual artist.

Projects

  • Dumb Starbucks

Protocols

  • Firewire
  • MIDI
  • OSC
  • Serial
  • Thunderbolt
  • USB 1.0
  • USB 2.0
  • USB 3.0
  • USB-C

Publishers

Records

  • Revolver wiki, by The Beatles.

Schools

Sensors

  • Kinect 360
  • Kinect One
  • Wii

Sequencers

Shops

  • AC Gears
  • Control: modular synthesizer store in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Guitar Center
  • Main Drag music
  • Reverb
  • Sam ash
  • Spoonbill & Sugartown Books
  • Strand
  • Sweetwater

Software

  • Ableton Live [site][https://www.ableton.com/] wiki: digital audio workstation.
  • Apple Logic Pro site wiki: digital audio workstation.
  • audiogrep: audio supercut tool, by Sam Lavigne.
  • automatonism: a virtual modular synthesizer built with Pure Data.
  • ChucK: programming language for real-time sound synthesis and music creation. Developed by Ge Wang.
  • Garageband
  • Kinectron
  • Magenta Studio
  • Max: visual programming environment for multimedia synthesis and manipulation.
  • MadMapper
  • Millumin
  • Osculator
  • p5.js: JavaScript library for programming within the context of visual arts. Developed by Lauren McCarthy
  • Paul's extreme sound stretch
  • Processing: flexible software sketchbook and language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Developed by Ben Fry and Casey Reas.
  • Pro Tools site wiki: digital audio workstation.
  • Pure Data: open-source visual programming language for multimedia. Developed by Miller Puckette.
  • Reason site wiki: digital audio workstation.
  • Runway
  • Sonic Pi site wiki: live coding music software.
  • Sublime Text
  • SuperCollider site wiki: audio environment and programming language.
  • TidalCycles: live coding language for audio.
  • three.js
  • tone.js site: JavaScript library for audio synthesis and manipulation, by Yotam Mann.
  • touchOSC
  • Unity
  • Unreal Engine
  • videogrep
  • VidPy: Python video editor and compositor. Developed by Sam Lavigne.
  • Web Audio API
  • Web MIDI API
  • Webrecorder
  • Web Server for Chrome
  • Wekinator

Studios

Synthesis

Thesis

Tutorials

  • FLOSS manuals
  • Sam Tarakajian, Delicious Tutorials

Venues

  • 3-Legged Dog
  • Babycastles
  • Pioneer Works
  • The Stone

Wearables

Websites