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Open Culture

2009-04-16T02:38:00.001-07:00

http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
http://www.openculture.com/2006/10/audio_book_podc.html

Free online courses from great universities and free audio books from classic and contemporary writers.

Art Forum Video

2009-04-16T01:49:00.001-07:00

http://www.artforum.com/video

Featured are Fischli and Weiss' magnificant 'Der Lauf Der Dinge', a BBC J.G. Ballard production and a Jhon cage performance. Many more inside.

Free Music Archive

2009-04-15T11:49:00.000-07:00

http://freemusicarchive.org/

Colorado College: Notable Lectures

2009-04-15T09:14:00.000-07:00

http://www.coloradocollege.edu/podcast/
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/podcast/CClectures.xml (podcast URL)

Subjects covered range from Buddhism to Abraham Lincoln. Omnivorism to Iraq.

Art Babble

2009-04-12T05:03:00.000-07:00

http://www.artbabble.org/

ArtBabble is a new kind of video site dedicated to art and artists. It offers high definition video that features content ranging from contemporary to clasical.

AAAARG.org

2008-12-07T07:06:00.000-08:00

http://a.aaaarg.org/library

A really great resource emailed in to us. Free texts on a multitude of subjects from queer-tech to Walter Benjamin; the LA art scene to paralel universes.

You have to regester and log in but its all hassle and cost free.

Frieze Art Fair Talks

2008-12-07T04:37:00.000-08:00

http://www.friezefoundation.org/talks/

Talks from this years fair and from previous ones going back to 2003.

Podcast streams and downloads.

Tank TV

2008-12-07T04:31:00.000-08:00

http://tank.tv/

The online gallery for artist's moving image.

ARS Electronica

2008-12-07T04:26:00.000-08:00

http://www.aec.at/en/festival2008/stream/podcasts.asp

Ars Electronica is offering free subscriptions to podcasts of the proceedings of this year's symposium conferences.

LUX Online

2008-12-07T04:21:00.000-08:00

http://www.luxonline.org.uk/

LUXONLINE is a web resource for exploring British based artists’ film and video in-depth.

Luxonline is the single most extensive publicly available resource devoted to British film and video artists. Streaming video clips, new writings, past articles and biographies provide a comprehensive contextual background to the artists featured on the site.

FACT

2008-12-07T04:16:00.000-08:00

http://fact.tv/

FACT (Liverpool). Online archive featuring artists film and video, talks and in-conversations.

Watershed

2008-12-07T04:05:00.000-08:00

http://www.dshed.net

A link to Watershed's (Bristol) online archive. Artists talks, in conversations and such.

Boston University: World of Ideas

2008-12-05T07:24:00.000-08:00

http://www.buworldofideas.org/about-the-show/

Boston University World of Ideas is a weekly one-hour show produced by WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston’s NPR radio station.

Each Sunday night, World of Ideas features discussions and lectures by the best and brightest thinkers from Boston University and the Boston community at large.

The show topics focus on various subjects such as current events, national and international politics, academic-related issues and public affairs.

Streaming.

Learn out Loud

2008-12-05T07:19:00.001-08:00

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video

Another uber-index. This is a link to thier FREE section.

Downloads

MIT: Open courses

2008-12-05T07:05:00.000-08:00

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.ht

Many subjects covered. Audio and video if you dig for it.

Deleuze

2008-12-05T07:00:00.000-08:00

http://www.eri.mmu.ac.uk/deleuze/

Manchester Metropolitans Deleuze studies department. Texts on key-concepts and links to external websites providing audio and video by and about the intelectual.

Some things in French of course.

In Our Time with Melvin Bragg

2008-12-05T06:52:00.000-08:00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/

BBC Radio 4's regular program exploring the history of ideas in which academics wax lyrical about a multitude of different subjects from the Great Reform Act to Spinoza.

Download and podcast links. Archive of past shows.

Summit

2008-12-05T06:10:00.000-08:00

http://summit.kein.org/

SUMMIT is a forum for questioning and changing some of the fundamental terms of the debate around education, knowledge production and information society.

Some good material on here. Videos avaliable for streaming and download.

Archive.org

2008-12-04T08:30:00.000-08:00

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Audio/video/texts of all kinds from the Nixon/Kennedy debate to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Not to mention a formidable array of Grateful Dead concerts, should that be your poison.

Glasgow School of Art

2008-12-04T08:25:00.000-08:00

http://www2.gsa.ac.uk/library/onlineresources/eresources_type_audio.html

Links to other online sources. Some already here on Academy:Academy but many new ones too.

Tate: Audio Arts

2008-12-04T08:21:00.000-08:00

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/audioarts/

The innovative audio cassette-magazine Audio Arts was established by Bill Furlong in 1973. Edited and produced by Furlong, it comprises an integral element of his art practice.

The recordings can be acessed here online.

British Library

2008-12-04T08:18:00.000-08:00

http://sounds.bl.uk/Default.aspx

To listen you have to log in and to log in you have to be a student of some kind.

WGBH

2008-12-04T07:17:00.000-08:00

http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/

An archive of many different subjects as described in free public lectures. Some listed but still not online. Others up and running.

Art and Film from BAM/PFA

2008-12-04T07:02:00.000-08:00

http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/podcasts/

Video talks from Artists and filmakers: Piere Hugye, Rossalind Nashashibi and Guy Maddin to name but a few.

TED

2008-12-04T06:57:00.000-08:00

http://www.ted.com/

All kinds of subjects, all kinds of speakers.

Video streams.

Reading Marx's Capital: With David Harvey

2008-12-04T06:26:00.000-08:00

http://davidharvey.org/

Chapter by Chapter MP3s and streamable videos of lectures about Das Kapital. Well presented, engaging and very accessible.

Islington Mill Art Academy

2008-12-04T06:03:00.000-08:00

http://www.islingtonmillartacademy.blogspot.com/

Some friends to mention.

Islington Mill Art Academy is a free self-organising art school set up by a group of young artists in May 2007. The project is based at Islington Mill in Salford, next to Manchester in the UK. With 12 members at present, we organise a wide range of activities from weekly discussion groups and critical debate sessions to research trips, film screenings, residencies, study blocks etc. We take complete responsibility for the form and direction of our education.

The Hitchcock & Truffaut Tapes

2008-12-04T05:37:00.000-08:00

http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Hitchcock%2FTruffaut%20Tapes

A link to another blogger who has made available, downloadable copies of the famous series of interveiws. Stunning!

Harry Ransom Centre: The Mike Wallace Interview

2008-12-04T05:24:00.000-08:00

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/film/holdings/wallace/

Texas based, this link is to a series of video interviews by Mike Wallace (kind of like Edward R. Murrow) donated to the archive by Wallace himself. An amazing snapshot of mid 20th C America. All increadible, some also strange and sad such as Eldon Edwards, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Hirschorn Museum

2008-12-04T05:21:00.000-08:00

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/educate/list.asp?key=56

More art related things. Sol lewitt and Joseph Kosuth are two notable additions. I'm sure there is more on there if you dig a little.

Index of online courses: Spark my dream

2008-12-04T05:18:00.000-08:00

http://www.sparkmydream.com/articles/FreeOnlineLecturesfromTopUniversities.htm

This is a link to a site provideing more links to online courses from universities arround the globe.

Princeton University

2008-12-04T05:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/

As with Berkeley's course lectures.

Berkeley Universtiy

2008-12-04T05:10:00.000-08:00

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Speech/VideoTest/audiofiles.html
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php

Two links here, the top a link to historic audio featuring the likes of Malcolm X and Naom Chomsky. The seccond a link to various aspects of Berkeleys online lectures related to its courses.

UBU

2008-12-04T05:08:00.000-08:00

http://www.ubu.com/

More artists audio and video than you can shake a stick at. Some real rarities too.

Stream and download.

Resonance FM

2008-12-04T05:06:00.000-08:00

http://resonancefm.com/

A London based arts radio station. Sound art to lectures and back again.

Streaming and podcasts.

The Speakeasy with Dorian

2008-12-04T04:59:00.000-08:00

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/SE This is a link to The Speakeasy Archives. Realplayer streaming of past broadcasts of the WFMU radio show with Dorian, whoever she is. Loads of amazing audio though from Guy Maddin to Arthur C. Danto; polititians to scientists.

Also a link at the top to current programs via the WFMU website stream.

Streaming format.

MOMA

2008-12-04T04:57:00.000-08:00

http://moma.org/visit_moma/audio.html

All kinds of programs related to MOMA's exhibitions and art issues current and past. Click on the links in crimson in the first paragraph.

Download.

WPS1: PS1's radio station

2008-12-04T04:53:00.000-08:00

http://www.wps1.org/new_site/index.php

Streaming of the 24 hr service is availiable, as is access to programs on demand. The archive section has some interesting 'historic' audio from the MOMA archives.

Streaming format.

Art: The Baltic

2008-12-04T04:46:00.000-08:00

http://archive.balticmill.com/index.php?home=true

http://www.balticmill.com/podcasts/index.php

Another good artists talk resource. The library & Arcive section isn't what it used to be, the navagation is a bit strange but if you click on the names under popular searches and scroll down you can find various talks and lectures in audio format.

Download and streaming.

The British Academy

2008-12-04T04:44:00.001-08:00

http://britac.studyserve.com/home/default.asp Covering all apsects of the humanities, politics and the like.

Streaming format, keep clicking the ear!

Artists talks: Tate Online

2008-12-04T04:26:00.000-08:00

http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/

An excelent resource for artist talks and lectures. Streaming format.

New online resource

2008-12-04T04:21:00.000-08:00

Welcome to academy:academy, so called because academy was taken.

This Blog will provide links to FREE places of learning on the web. For example audio/video lectures and interveiws etc etc.

If you know of any we have not included please mail in and we'll post them up.