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Links to a range of other video art organizations and related resources.
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Dallas Video Fest

Since 1986, Video Fest has specialized in independent, alternative, and non-commercial media, presenting hard-to-find works rarely seen on television, in movie theaters, or elsewhere, despite their artistic excellence and cultural and social relevance.

VideoEx - International Experimental Film and Video Festival Zurich

An international festival that screens experimental film and video works from around the world.

True/False Film Fest

The True/False Film Festival is an annual documentary film festival whose focus is the creative advancement of the art of nonfiction filmmaking.   

transmediale

transmediale is a Berlin-based festival and year-round project that draws out new connections between art, culture and technology.

Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival – Curta Cinema

For more than 20 years, the Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival – Curta Cinema has brought Rio’s audiences a wide-ranging selection of the best and most significant Brazilian and foreign short films, while also offering a series of parallel activities such as lectures, workshops and debates.

Light Industry

Light Industry is a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York dedicated to exploring new models for the presentation of time-based media.

University of East Anglia, England - Film Studies with Archiving

The School of Film and Television Studies offers an exciting and in-depth exploration of the moving image, giving students access to leading scholars and a thriving graduate community.

UCLA - Moving Image Archive Studies

MIAS is an intensive two-year course of study consisting of specialized seminars, directed studies, an extensive practicum program, training workshops, screenings, guest lectures and technical demonstrations.

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands - Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image

The Professional Master's programme in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image provides students with the knowledge and skills to archive audiovisual material (film, video, digital media) in an institutional context and to present such work to an audience.

New York University - Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP)

MIAP's two-year program prepares students for positions in public and private institutions through comprehensive education in the theory and practice of moving image archiving and preservation.

George Eastman House - The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation

Offers graduate degrees and certificate programs in motion picture archiving and curation.

V2_: Institute for Unstable Media

V2_ is interested in the relationships and interactions between different media and in the relationship between art and scientific disciplines.  To this end, they work to establish an ongoing dialogue within a wide network of contacts that contributes to the development of specific art projects for research and presentation.

Forgint the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Preservation

Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Preservation is a consortium of museums and cultural heritage organizations dedicated to exploring, developing, and sharing new vocabularies and tools for cultural preservation.

Charles Sturt University, Australia - Graduate Certificate in Audiovisual Archiving

A Graduate Certificate program geared towards understanding the principles and practices underlying collection development, collection management and access within the audiovisual environment, particularly as they relate to audiovisual archives.

Media Art Net

A website that hosts a wealth of historical and conceptual information relating to the intersection of art and media technology, ranging from early video art history and sound art to software art and cybernetic aesthetics.

Ubuweb.com

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.  UbuWeb has an extensive archive of video art, artists' videos, audio recordings and interviews.

Ann Arbor Film Festival

Established in 1963, The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America and screens more than 180 experimental, animation, documentary, narrative, hybrid and performance based works from over 20 countries.

Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival

A film festival screening short film and video pieces from around the world, in addition to offering a short film market, in which international film and media promotion bodies and production and distribution companies share an exhibition space where they promote their business and form working relationships while preparing new projects.

European Media Arts Festival/Osnabrouck

EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. Working as a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, galleries and an audience of experts the festival has a great impact on the topics and aesthetics of Media Art.

Courtisane Festival

A Belgium-based festival and platform to showcase film, video and media art in a variety of styles and media.

Chicago Underground Film Festival

The Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) is a year-round organization dedicated to the work of film and video makers with defiantly independent visions, showcasing independent, experimental and documentary films from around the world.

Chicago Filmmakers - Onion City Film Festival

The mission of Onion City is to provide local and regional audiences with an opportunity to view a wide variety of contemporary experimental works, focused on artistic excellence but also with an eye towards representing differing styles, forms, and nationalities.

Black Maria Film and Video Festival

Taking its name from the world's first motion picture studio built by Thomas Edison in 1893, the New Jersey-based Black Maria Film and Video Festival exhibits short works by both emerging and veteran independent film and videomakers.

Athens Video Art Festival

The most important festival of digital arts and new media in Greece, screening video, film, digital animation, web art, installation and performance-based works.

Athens International Film/Video Festival

A film and video festival organized by the College of Fine Arts at Ohio University that presents documentary, experimental, narrative and animated films from around the world chosen by a screening committee comprised of local artists, students and community activists.

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