Links to members websites, blogs, resources, videos, ezines, projects

links to resources and projects we find interesting

Individuals

landrobot.freehostia.com
Landrobot, AKA Rob Dalton is an illustrator, designer and ideas man with a robotic heart and a uniquely skewed world view. His sense of the insane and love of the macabre brings to his work complete originality

theinkrebels.com
The Ink Rebels spawned from a thursday night drinking session and finally came to fruition after Sinéad gave us a well needed nudge so then came the name! And since we are all from the same background and of course from Cork we came up with The Ink Rebels

corklivemusic.blogspot.com
Insider tips on the best upcoming concerts and gigs, with a leaning towards acoustic performances and musicianship 

seancorcoranart.com
Artist Sean Corcoran based in Waterford, working currently in digital art and photography. Freelance design of weird and wonderful Interiors. I make quirky Maps and have worked in many different media including Stained Glass, Mosaic and Wood. Regular Mutant 

thestubonline.com                                                                                                                                                                   Cork blog about film and filmmaking of all sorts

carolyn-collier.com
Art Teacher and Graphic Designer based in Ireland

groundzeroprojects.ning.com/profile/dpwt_emf
Emerging into now as producer-d.j. performer, beat master d.p.w.t. composes experiments, mixing and mastering hands on, his sounds of the electronic

jeanlucmorales.com
Jean Luc Morales photography work can be seen here

nikolasschiller.com
Geospatial Artist Nikolas Schillers kaleidescopic map art. Washington and the World. Google Earth on Acid. A great website and a superb body of work  

theplayethic.com
The website of “The Play Ethic” author Pat Kane. It explores the values and potential of play since the late nineties, through a variety of essays, journalism and media

helnwein.com
Artist Gottfried Helnweins wonderful website

mirandasart.com
Artist Miranda Cleary Corcorans paintings of moons and planets (and sometimes flowers). Wild and vibrant colour on canvas

sineloadphotography.com
John Murphy is an Irish born photographer living and working in Madrid, Spain.  Having studied fine art, (painting) he switched to photography and has been dedicated to the medium for the last 8 years

salrandolph.com
Sal Randolph lives in New York and produces independent art projects involving gift economies and social architectures, including Free Words and Free Manifesta 

orlaosullivan.ie
Orla O'Sullivan is a deaf –blind pianist, performer and teacher who uses music as a way of overcoming her profound deafness and visually impairement

Literature

transform.eipcp.net
TRANSFORM continues the research and investigate the relationship between institution and critique along three lines; the line of art production, the line of art institutions, the line of the relationship of institution and critique as movement

defaultpublishing.com
DEFAULT publishing is a new organisation dedicated to promoting contemporary poetry and text based works

owlwink.wordpress.com
3 chapters of a sardonic novel that Jeremy Ambrose is working on that takes an alternative look at Irish culture and society

freedompress.org.uk
The Freedom Press (which includes Freedom Newspaper, Freedom Bookshop and Freedom Publishing) is a longstanding anarchist publisher based in Whitechapel, East London

Arts companies + organisations

streetfeast.ie
a nationwide diy community feasting day

exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/index.html
Individual's collections of protest and activist ephemera from the sixties, documenting some really interesting social movements

newmindspace.com
Newmindspace organizes free, fun, all-ages events like parties on subway cars, public pillow fights, giant games of capture the flag on city streets, massive bubble battles, public art installations and much more. Newmindspace is committed to reclaiming public space, inventing new ways of having fun, and creating community

dandielion.com
Dandielion is a management and marketing company offering services in a variety of artistic areas, including all aspects of the entertainment industry. Dandielion works with all genres of artistes including; actors, musicians, lecturers, fine arts’ designers and theatre companies to create and promote memorable events from plays to exhibitions, concerts to lectures

exchangedublin.ie
Exchange Dublin is a collaborative artspace, an extended tribe, a social experiment, and a bit of a laugh. We were established halfway through 2009, and have been open to the world since October, running a miscellany of groups and projects both within and beyond our walls

instructables.com
Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others 

againstthegrain.org
Against the Grain is a radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters — political, economic, social and cultural — important to progressive and radical thinking and activism

crimethinc.com
crimethinc.com is an underground network, a transgression without which freedom and self-determination are impossible—it is the skeleton key that unlocks the prisons of our age. It is the black market where we trade in this precious contraband. It seeks to form gateways to new worlds where theft, cheating, warfare, boredom, and so on are simply obsolete.

telic.info
Telic Arts Exchange provides a place for multiple publics to engage with contemporary forms of media, art and architecture. For five years TAE has been a platform for exhibitions, performances, screenings, lectures and discussions.

uhc.org.uk
The UHC are creative innovators of campaign strategies and community-led events that go beyond the usual solutions when seeking to engage a hard to reach audience. They like to work off-grid, to generate their own power. They like to take risks and question preconceptions. They also have tons of experience promoting projects and making a little go a long way

platform21.nl
Platform21 is a platform for people curious about the future. An old, round chapel in Amsterdam is their public design laboratory. There they organise exhibitions, lectures and other events.

seemen.org
Seemen.org is the collaborative effort of Kal Spelletich and some forty odd art drop outs and extreme technology inventors who enjoy building extreme machines and robots that they allow their audience to operate.

earthship.net
What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you’re renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing.

laughingsquid.com
Laughing Squid is an online resource for art, culture & technology and independent web hosting company based in San Francisco

altruists.org
Are an optimistic, positive community with members from both the under- and the over-developed world. Its members are united by their view that a money-centred struggle for personal gain is no way to make the world a better place

cacophony.org
The Cacophony Society is a randomly gathered network of individuals united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society through subversion, pranks, art, fringe explorations and meaningless madness

wethinkthebook.net
We Think explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information

burningman.com
Burning Man is an annual festival held in Nevada, USA every year. Its intention is to generate society that connects each individual to his or her creative powers, to participation in community, to the larger realm of civic life, and to the even greater world of nature that exists beyond society

santarchy.com
Every December for the last 14 years, Cacophonous Santas have been visiting cities around the world, engaging in a bit of Santarchy as part of the annual Santacon events. Things have reached Critical Xmas and Santarchy is now a global phenomenon

pranks.com
Pranks.com is produced and edited by Joey Skaggs. Here you will find insights, information, news and discussions about pranks, hoaxes, culture jamming & reality hacking around the world - past, present and future - mainstream and counter culture

improveverywhere.com
Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Since 2001 it has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City

Arts resources

thehighline.org 
an amazing park space in New York city, raised above the streets on a former freight train line, planted with unique grasses and vegetation and laid with unusual architecture. It's incredibly popular with people and happened because two people rallied against the demolition of the tracks and formed a non-profit community group to save it

corkarts.org
Cork Arts Network (working title) is a follow up by various artists and arts workers to participation in the National Campaign for the Arts in 2009. Those involved feel that there is a need for a local cross-artform group that follows a variety of aims and activities.

egomotion.net
egomotion.net seeks to promote movie-making at professional and amateur levels by assisting first-time writers, directors, actors, etc and by generating a deep pool of acting talent and prospective crew members for already established production companies

artbusiness.com
A very practical advice website for anything art related. An absolutely fabulous resource for artists and art collectors. Produced by one the worlds leading art experts, Alan Bamberger

a.aaaarg.org
cultural theory, continental philosophy and critical theory  

rhizome.org
Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology

opsound.org
Opsound is a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians and sound artists are invited to add their work to the Opsound pool using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine

p2p-art.com
Art made for - and only available on - the peer to peer networks (e-mule, torrent etc). The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it. After that the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it. The original film is deleted

woostercollective.com
Wooster Collective is a website 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

creativecommons.org
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry

freesharing.org
FreeSharing, also known as Free Recycling or Freecycling, is when you have an item you no longer need that is just too nice to put in the trash and you give the item away thru your local FreeSharing group

freecycle.org
The Freecycle Network is made up of 4,343 groups with 4,969,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills

osalt.com 
osalt.com is your quick guide to the best open source software. Find open source alternatives to your favourite commercial products. Browse through our software categories and compare pros and cons of both commercial products as well as open source software 

civictrusthouse.ie
Arts @ Civic Trust House is the home of 8 key Cork arts organisations and is developing as a resource for the city 

Ezines

artsjournal.com
The site is a digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal features link to stories culled from more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture

issuu.com
Check this out. Every type of magazine or publication imaginable all in one place in an easy to use exciting online format

revolutionartmagazine.com
A fantastic international online magazine featuring Digital and Graphic Art as well as Music, Photography, fashion and interviews

crudemagazine.net
[crude] is a new quarterly alternative culture and lifestyle magazine, documenting and shining a light on Ireland’s ever growing alternative society

steampunkmagazine.com
SteamPunk Magazine is a publication that is dedicated to promoting steampunk as a culture, as more than a sub-category of fiction. It is a journal of fashion, music, misapplied technology, chaos and fiction 

Videos

youtube.com/user/creativetimenewyork
Documenting a real event in NY with talks by people in the art world on various projects and initiatives, many of them in the vein of art activism

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=211108422793632049
Here are two documentaries on the Zapatistas. The first is a more low budget, less critical film which is mostly interviews. It deals with the coming to being of the revolution in 1994 and the conflict with the Mexican state in the years after

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4513202692382805096&hl=en
The second documentary on the Zapatistas is made by a Canadian woman and is more searching. It tries to examine whether the revolution, led by Subcommandante Marcos, is actually enabling the inhabitants of the Chiapas to become more autonomous

youtube.com/watch?v=c-ULbgFkNZs
This is a video of one of Jacques Ranciere's lectures on 'What makes images unacceptable?'. He is a Professor of Philosophy and writes on aesthetic theory and politics

multitude.tv/component/option,com_seyret/Itemid,1/task,videodirectlink/id,105
An inspiring documentary on Antonio Negri Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher

sending in links

what to do...

If you want to have your own links on the site or/and have links you think other members would finding interesting, informative, funny, engaging, etc, etc please send them into me along with a one line description of the link  to admin@mutantspace.ie.

I'd really like to see this grow into a decent arts resource database we can all use so please, root through your URLS, bookmarks, favourites files and so on and make an effort...send it all in. It would help if you compiled it in some sort of order to make my life a wee bit easier...preferably into the existing categories. however if you want to start a new category by all means do

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