The sites below give a small sampling of the many ways that artists and cultural crtiics have sought to use the new media technologies to strengthen the presence of groups currently mis- or under-represented in US culture.
FEATURED SITE
- Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). Great site for one of the most important public art centers in the world. Learn about the hundreds of community murals SPARC has created, preserved, and recorded.
REPRESENTATIVE SITES
- African American Culture through Oral Tradition Rich essay on the influence of African oral traditions on the literature, song and culture of Black Americans.
- Amerinda A major resource on American Indian/Native artists and cultural workers of all kinds.
- Arab and Arab-American Art In diverse forms, but especially rich on calligraphy.
- African American Music and Culture Archive Fine resource on jazz, blues and other black cultural/political forms.
- Art in the Public Interest Fine resource on community art movement(s).
- Asssemblage: Women's New Media Gallery An international gathering of women's new media art being created on and off the World Wide Web.
- Black Film Center Promoting the study, preservation and production of films from the Black community.
- Brown Pride Site for the promition of Latino/a arts and culture.
- Claiming Art, Reclaiming Space Post-Apartheid art from South Africa.
- Cybergrrl Webstation Lookout keyboard cowboys, Cybergrrls are here!
- Day With(out) Art project (Visual AIDS) Art world response to AIDS deathtoll.
- Digital Storytelling A multicultural revival via digital media of the ancient art of community storytelling.
- Drawing the Line at Place: Environmental Justice Project Article on an unusual art project linking toxic waste and social injustice in Louisiana.
- Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia An excellent, extensive resource for exploring s/f as a social force.
- Frameline National organization supporting gay and lesbian filmmaking.
- Guerilla Girls They call themselves the "feminist conscience of the art world," and have worked tirelessly for three decades to bring greater gender and racial equality to the art and museum scene.
- Hapa Project Visually deconstructing racial mixed messages.
- In/Visible: Arab and Arab-American Art Site for an exhibit seeking to make visible the largely invisible presence of Arab/Americans in US art.
- Longhouse Media Project to involve Indian youth in new media production.
- Making Face, Making Soul A Chicana literature and culture site.
- Movies, Race and Ethnicity Fine resource from University of California, Berkeley library.
- Names Project AIDS Quilt Massive, colective art tribute to lives lost to AIDS.
- Native American Stereotyping Examples both historical and current, from wooden Indians to sports mascots to online images today.
- Pamela Z A fascinating multimedia sound arist and vocalist.
- Pocha Nostra Homepage for Mexican/Chicano political performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Peña and friends. Gomez-Peña has been among the most active users of digital media and digital metaphors to explore race and gender, particularly with with regard to the cultures along and across the southern border of the US.
- Race in Digital Space Site for the second of two conferences held on this topic at MIT and USC respectively. Includes much on race, gender and the arts online.
- Reel Grrls Terrfically successful project empowering young women from low income communities to become video and film artists.
- South Asian Literature Chai Room Interesting site on Asian and Asian American literature from University of California, Berkeley.
- Third World Newsreel Longstanding collective that has produced many of the most important documenatary films about social injustice in the US and worldwide.
- Voices from the Gaps Rich site on Women artists and writers of color, US and beyond.
- World's Women On-Line International women's art site.
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