Research Guides: Art Research Guide: Integrated Media

Articles in Online Journals

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Art & Architecture Source Combines content from Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984), Art & Architecture Complete. Provides access to more than 630 international full-text journals and thousands of images, books and magazine articles. Help Guide
Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete This database is a longstanding, comprehensive Canadian periodical collection covering multiple subjects and topics, with millions of full-text records. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, the Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database features a diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, reports, radio and television transcripts, news, dissertations, and more. Includes Canadian Art Magazine. Help Guide
Art, Design and Architecture Collection This collection provides full-text access to more than 400 journals and magazines with subject coverage of design, crafts, architecture, philosophy and history. It includes the art and design indexes ARTbibliographies Modern, Design and Applied Arts Index and the International Bibliography of Art.

Ebooks

Browse a sample selection of ebooks from our online collections related to Integrated Media:

Art, Media Design, and Postproduction by Eduardo Navas
Publication Date: 2018-06-19
Art, Media Design, and Postproduction offers a set of open-ended guidelines for art and design studio-based projects. The creative application of appropriation and remix are now common across creative disciplines due to the ongoing recycling and repurposing of content and form. Consequently basic elements which were previously exclusive to postproduction for editing image, sound and text, are now part of daily communication. This in turn pushes art and design to reconsider their creative methodologies.
Electronics for Artists: Adding Light, Motion, and Sound to Your Artwork by Simon Quellen Field
Publication Date: 2015-02-01
With today’s modern technology—LEDs, servomotors, motion sensors, speakers, and more—artwork can incorporate elements of light, sound, and motion for dramatic effects. Author and educator Simon Quellen Field has developed a primer for creative individuals looking for new ways to express themselves though electronically enhanced art. Following step-by-step examples of basic circuitry and programming, readers can develop the skills necessary to enhance their works of art.
The Essay Film by Elizabeth Papazian (Editor); Caroline Eades (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016-12-19
With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. In this volume, authors specializing in various national cinemas (Cuban, French, German, Israeli, Italian, Lebanese, Polish, Russian, American) and critical approaches (historical, aesthetic, postcolonial, feminist, philosophical) explore the essay film and its consequences for the theory of cinema.
Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts by Holly Willis
Publication Date: 2016-08-16
3D cinematography, hypercinema, and visual effects require different modes for composing an image, and virtual technology, motion capture, and previsualization completely rearrange the traditional flow of cinematic production. Fast Forward investigates a full range of contemporary creative practices dedicated to the future of mediated storytelling and by connecting with a new generation of filmmakers, screenwriters, technologists, media artists, and designers to discover how they work now, and toward what end.
Installation and the Moving Image by Catherine Elwes
Publication Date: 2015-05-12
Installation and the Moving Image traces the lineage of moving-image installation through architecture, painting, sculpture, performance, expanded cinema, film history, and countercultural film and video from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Sound is given due attention, along with the shift from analogue to digital, issues of spectatorship, and the insights of cognitive science. Woven into this genealogy is a discussion of the political, theoretical, and ideological positions espoused by artists from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice by Camille C. Baker (Editor); Kate Sicchio (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016-12-19
This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in the outcome itself - the artefact, artwork or performance - contributors instead highlight the emotional, intellectual, intuitive, instinctive and step-by-step creation dimensions. They aim to shine a light on digital and electronic art practice, involving coding, electronic gadgetry and technology mixed with other forms of more established media.
Isuma: Inuit Video Art by Michael Robert Evans
Publication Date: 2008-04-03
Since director Zacharias Kunuk was awarded the Camera d'Or Award at Cannes in 2001, Igloolik Isuma Productions has been among the most well-known and influential indigenous film companies in the world. Isuma's premier movie, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) - the first-ever feature film produced by the Inuit and presented entirely in the Inuktitut language - has received numerous awards and critical acclaim.

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ACLS Humanities E-Book
The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities Ebook Collection is a collection of over 5,700 scholarly books, from over 125 publishers, sold as a subscription package to over 800 library subscribers. ACLS HEB is a collection curated by scholars for scholars; members of ACLS learned societies nominate books for inclusion, and Michigan Publishing licenses them and pays royalties to contributing publishers.
Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts
This comprehensive resource offers instant, searchable access to over 170 books which combine visual inspiration with practical advice on idea generation, research techniques, portfolio development and more, across the main visual arts disciplines.
Ebook Central
Full text access to more than 170,000 ebooks representing all academic subject areas. Includes the Academic Complete collection which contains titles from more than 200 leading university and academic presses.
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Scholars Portal E-Books
Scholars Portal Books provides access to a wide range of scholarly digital texts on a single platform. Most of the content is from academic publishers, and is available to Ontario universities that have purchased ebooks with perpetual access rights. Publishers represented on the platform include Oxford University Press, Emerald, IEEE, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and most Canadian University Presses, including University of Toronto, McGill-Queens, and Presses de l'Université du Québec.

Online Reference Books - Encyclopedia and Handbooks

Canadian Film Encyclopedia
Currently, the CFE includes over 750 film title, biographical and subject entries, covering some of Canada’s foremost historical and modern films and filmmakers. The film title entries include plot summaries, commentary and credits, and the biographical entries have a comprehensive list of film and video works indicating the person’s key creative roles. The CFE also includes original writing from Canadian film critics, professionals, academics and theorists. You can read the authors’ bios and sort by author name to read all contributions by a particular writer.
Any use of CFE information must include the following credit:

The Canadian Film Encyclopedia, a publication of The Film Reference Library/a division of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Credo Reference
Full text articles from over 600 academic encyclopedias, guides, handbooks. Use the concept map for a visual mind-mapping tool.
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics 2nd edition
The Encyclopedia surveys the full breadth of critical thought on art, culture, and society, from classical philosophy to contemporary critical theory.
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Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. Through a single gateway, users can access and cross-search Oxford’s acclaimed, regularly updated art reference works: the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
Includes over 200,000 articles that span ancient to contemporary art and architecture, as well as over 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures

Images and Media

Theatre in Video
This collection access to online streaming videos of over 250 definitive play performances, together with over 100 documentaries. It includes the works of a wide range of playwrights and actors, with performances from the 1930s to the present. Users can browse or search videos by playwright, director, actor, company and genre as well as other categories.
ARTstor Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Images of art and design from pre-history to contemporary art, in addition to content from science and social science disciplines. This resource now includes the instructional images from the OCAD U Image Library selected by faculty and librarians. Register for an account using your OCAD U email address to select and download images.
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Criterion on Demand
Criterion on Demand is a streaming video platform that provides access to a growing library of more than 4,000 feature films which including classics, foreign films, new releases and documentaries. The collection comprises films from a number of leading production companies such as 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers, as well as smaller independent producers such as Mongrel Media.
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This collection is licensed for personal research or educational/instructional classroom use only, and films may not be screened for other purposes.
Films on Demand - Master Academic Collection
Films on Demand (FOD) is a streaming video service which provides access to more than 15,000 educational videos across all subject areas. It includes content from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, BBC, PBS, Nova, and numerous other educational film producers. Special features allow users to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and embed clips (register for an account using your OCAD U email address to select and download content).
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Material ConneXion
Images, descriptions, contact information for materials and manufacturers. Browse of search by application, material properties, country of original.
National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
The National Film Board of Canada's is an award-winning online Screening Room, featuring over 5,000 productions. This collection includes documentaries, animations, experimental films, fiction and interactive works. NFB showcases films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians—stories about the environment, human rights, international conflict, the arts and more.
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The National Film Board’s mission is to provide new perspectives on Canada and the world from Canadian points of view, perspectives that are not provided by anyone else and that serve Canadian and global audiences by an imaginative exploration of who we are and what we may be. We will do this by creating, distributing and engaging audiences with innovative and distinctive audiovisual works and immersive experiences that will find their place in classrooms, communities, and cinemas, and on all the platforms where audiences watch, exchange and network around creative content.

Open Access Resources

Open access literature is online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (1). Accessing these resources do not require an OCAD U account.

1. Suber P. Open access. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press; 2012. 242 p. (MIT Press essential knowledge series).

Artcyclopedia
Covers painting, sculpture, photography, video and digital art, architecture, and decorative arts. Search or browse for images by Movement, Medium or Subject.
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AskART
Auction records, biographies, low res. images for thousands of contemporary artists. Many Canadian artists included.
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Directory of Open Access Journals
Indexes more than 10,000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

Books in the Library

Elements and Principles of 4D Art and Design by Ellen Mueller
Call Number: NX650 T5 M83
ISBN: 9780190225148
Publication Date: 2016-02-16
Elements and Principles of 4D Art and Design is a hands-on introduction to the new elements and principles of time-based art. The book reviews the basic aesthetic concepts and the principles and elements of 2- and 3D design that connect more familiar art forms and the world of 4D design. Through a range of exercises and activities, students will hone improvisation, brainstorming, and critical thinking skills while gaining experience in a range of technologies related to 4D design such as video and audio recording and editing.
Here/There by Kris Paulsen; Sean Cubitt; Roger F. Malina
Call Number: N72 T45 P27
ISBN: 9780262035729
Publication Date: 2017-02-24
In Here/There, Kris Paulsen examines telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current "drone vision" works. Paulsen traces an arc of increasing interactivity, as video screens became spaces for communication and physical, tactile intervention. She explores the work of artists who took up these technological tools and questioned the aesthetic, social, and ethical stakes of media that allow us to manipulate and affect far-off environments and other people -- to touch, metaphorically and literally, those who cannot touch us back.
How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls: animal movement and the robots of the future by David Hu
Call Number: TJ211 H8 H68
ISBN: 9780691169866
Publication Date: 2018-11-13
In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes readers on a journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious. In turn, the latest discoveries about animal mechanics are inspiring scientists to invent robots and devices that move with similar elegance and efficiency.
New Media Installation: technology in public art by Sandu Publications (Editor)
Call Number: N6495 I56 N386
ISBN: 9781584237181
Publication Date: 2018-11-13
New Media Installation offers a fascinating look into the world of technology-based art installations, with a global selection of artists and works. Interactive installations respond to the viewer’s voice, touch and proximity, while non-interactive pieces create otherworldly objects and environments for viewers to explore from all angles. Gorgeous photographs capture the size and scale of more than ninety installation pieces that combine light, motion, space and code to create singular experiences.