Links - New Media

PRODUCING COMPANIES - groups that create or show art

Greater Vancouver

• Atomic Cartoons www.atomiccartoons.com
• Bardel Entertainment www.bardelentertainment.com
• Barking Dog Studios www.barkingdogstudios.com
• Digit Art www.digitandart.com
• Electronic Arts www.ea.com
• Gliss Media www.glissmedia.com
• Hackwriters.com www.hackwriters.com
• IMAGeNation Indigenous Media Arts Group www.imag-nation.com
• Mainframe Entertainment www.mainframe.ca
• Mercury Filmworks www.mercuryfilmworks.com
• Miscellaneous Productions www.miscellaneous-inc.org
• Radical Entertainment www.radical.ca
• Relic Entertainment www.relic.com
• The Virtual Stage www.thevirtualstage.org
• Vancouver Co-operative Radio CFRO102.7 FM www.coopradio.org
• Western Front www.front.bc.ca
• ZeD - Open Source Television www.zed.cbc.ca

FESTIVALS - groups that celebrate art in the community

Greater Vancouver

• Crazy 8s (director's filmmaking challenge) www.crazy8s.cc
• New Forms Festival www.newformsfestival.com
• Signal & Noise - festival of video and sound www.videoinstudios.com
• TD Canada Trust Media Arts Festival (child students) www.artsumbrella.com
• Vancouver International Digital Festival www.vidfest.com
• Vancouver Videopoem Festival www.cinematheque.bc.ca/videopoem_festival.htm

British Columbia

• Touch the Earth Arts Festival www.geocities.com/iaso_2/10.html

SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS - groups that serve the arts

Greater Vancouver

• Greater Vancouver Media Association - 604-681-4420
• Marika Productions www.marikaproductions.com
• Vancouver CommunityNet www.vcn.bc.ca

British Columbia

• Association of Broadcast Professionals (ABCOM) www.abcom.bc.ca
• BC Media Eductors (BCME) www.bcstudentfilm.com
• Fraser Valley Club of Printing House Craftsmen www.iaphc.org/10th/fraser_valley/index02.htm
• New Media BC www.newmediabc.com
• Western Association of Broadcaste Engineers (WABE) www.wabe.ca

Canada

• AV Trust www.avtrust.ca
• Broadcast Educators Association of Canada (BEAC) www.beac.ca
• Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) www.cata.ca
• Canadian Animation Producers Association (CAPA) - 416-588-5571
• Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB/ACR) www.cab-acr.ca
• Canadian Association of Media Education Organizations (CAME) http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/CAMEO/
• Canadian Broadcast Standards Council www.cbsc.ca
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) www.cbc.ca
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Arts (CBC Arts) www.cbc.ca/arts/
• Canadian Communications Association www.acc-cca.ca
• Canadian Communications Foundation - History of Canadian Broadcasting www.broadcasting-history.ca
• Canadian Television Fund www.canadiantelevisionfund.ca
• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) www.crtc.gc.ca
• Canadian Women in Communications (CWC-AFC) www.cwc-afc.com
• CANARIE Inc. www.canarie.ca
• Educational Media Producers and Distributors Association of Canada (EMPDAC) - 416-923-7252
• Interactive Multimedia Arts & Technologies Association (IMAT) www.imat.ca
• International Association of Business Communications (IABC) www.iabc.bc.ca
• La Fédération nationale des communications www.fncom.org
• Media Awareness Network www.media-awareness.ca
• Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada (RTNDA) www.rtndacanada.com
• Television Bureau of Canada www.tvb.ca
• The Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) www.act-aet.tv
• The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom www.presscampaign.org
• Wired Woman Society www.wiredwoman.com
• Women's Television Network www.wnetwork.com

International

• Advertising Standards Canada www.adstandards.com
• AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) www.aiga.org
• Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (ASIFA) http://asifa.net/
• Audio Visual Licensing Agency (AVLA) (Toronto) - 1-800-668-8820
• Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) (The Netherlands) www.isea-web.org
• International Association of Printing House Craftsmen (IAPHC) www.iaphc.org
• International Federation of Multimedia Associations (FIAM) www.fiam.org
• Media Communications Association - International www.mca-i.org 
• MediaRights.org www.mediarights.org
• National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) (USA) www.namac.org
• National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America (NABET-CWA) www.nabetcwa.org
• North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) www.nabanet.com
• Society for Technical Communication (STC) (USA) www.stc.org
• Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (USA) www.smpte.org
• The CD Information Center www.cd-info.com
• Women in Animation www.womeninanimation.org

WEB RESOURCES - web-based resources

Greater Vancouver

• MediaStudies.com www.mediastudies.com

Canada

• ArtsCanada (CBC) www.artscanada.cbc.ca
• terminus1525 www.terminus1525.ca

International

• MediaRights.org www.mediarights.org
• National Information Centre for Educational Media (NICEM) (USA) www.nicem.com

EDUCATION - groups that teach art

Greater Vancouver

• Arts Umbrella www.artsumbrella.com
• Capilano College Interactive Design www.capcollege.bc.ca/programs/interactive-design/index.xhtml
• Centre for Digital Imaging and Sound www.artschool.com
• Gradshow.com - Capilano College Animation Department www.gradshow.com
• Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Surrey Campus www.surrey.sfu.ca/p_students/ugrad/interactivearts.htm
• The Art Institute of Vancouver http://aivan.artinstitutes.edu
• Trebas Institute www.trebas.com
• Vancouver Institute of Media Arts www.vanarts.com
• Velocity Media Arts Services Society (VMASS) - 604-648-2753

British Columbia

• Kootenay School of the Arts (Nelson) www.ksac.bc.ca
• Nelson's Summer of Learning www.nelsonlearning.ca

SUPPLIERS - groups that sell art or materials

FUNDING - groups that provide funding to the arts

British Columbia

• TELUS BC New Media and Broadcast fund http://about.telus.com/funds/foundation/telusfund.html

Canada

• Canada Council for the Arts - New Media www.canadacouncil.ca/grants/mediaarts
• Canada New Media Fund www.telefilm.gc.ca
• Canadian Culture Online www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pcce-ccop/about_e.cfm
• Department of Canadian Heritage - Cultural Spaces Canada www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ecc-csp/index_e.cfm
• Department of Canadian Heritage - Canada New Media Fund www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/pubs/2002/04_e.htm#cnmf
• Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DEFAIT) - Visual and Media Arts www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/arts/visual-en.asp
• Much More Music PromoFACT www.muchmoremusic.com/promofact/
• Telefilm Canada www.telefilm.gc.ca

AWARDS - groups that give awards to the arts

Greater Vancouver

• Vancouver Arts Awards www.vancouverartsawards.ca

Canada

• Canadian New Media Awards www.cnma.ca
• Governor General's Performing Arts Awards www.bell.ca/ggawards
• Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts www.canadacouncil.ca

PUBLICATIONS - books, magazines, etc.

• Playback Magazine www.playbackmag.com
• Shift Magazine www.shift.com

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 15, 2008