tate events podcasts

podcasts of past tate events can be downloaded here

check out especially:
Resolutely Analogue?: Art Museums in Digital Culture podcast part 1, part 2

Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception part 1
part 2
part 3

and Friedrich Kittler's keynote lecture for Media Matters podcast

technological determinism in media art

Armin Medosch's master thesis on technological determinism in media art is super interesting, dealing with core issues of media art. available here

Art and education have launched a papers section, for which they have posted a call for submissions on e-flux . It just launched but could evolve in a useful platform..check out an interesting contribution by Joseph Nechvatal

simon biggs' linklist

Links to archives, collection and resources for digital, interactive, networked and new media arts

http://hosted.simonbiggs.easynet.co.uk/right/links.htm

Simon Biggs is Professor at Edinburgh College of Art, UK.

electronic know how

pickled feet is an organization in berlin that sets up workshops etc. using household materials and chemistry, readily-available electronics components, free software and the GNU toolbase to construct various electronic audiovisual artifacts - they give access to some hard to find resources and some interesting links
http://pickledfeet.com/workshops.php