Dictionary of Australian Artists

http://www.daao.org.au/

The Dictionary of Australian Artists Online is an open access and dynamic scholarly reference work.
You can search 6950 biographies by over 400 biographers, and watch for 473 new biographies currently in progress. You can discover themes and patterns from 45 years of art scholarship. You can create new biographies, comment or revise those previous, and write alternative interpretations on artists already covered.
The foundation data focuses predominantly on Colonial artists; women artists to 1950; black and white artists; Aboriginal artists of the Western Desert and the Sydney region. It is constantly being added to: this is only the beginning.
The DAAO invites art lovers and art researchers to search, discover and create Australian art history.

Rick Prelinger's Keynote at Future Histories

Archivist Rick Prelinger gave the Keynote Address at the Future Histories of the Moving Image Conference (Nov 16-18, 2007). He has posted a pdf of the presentation on his blog BlackOysterCatcher

You can access public domain films in the Prelinger Archives at The Internet Archive.

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