Links

88 Hip-Hop

http://www.88hiphop.com/

"A commercial Net TV channel based in New York City dedicated to accurate, comprehensive, and interactive coverage of Hip-Hop culture. As the place on the Internet for Hip-Hop culture, 88HIPHOP.COM broadcasts in Real Media (Audio/Video) via the World Wide Web. In addition to numerous shows that cover the diverse aspects of Hip-Hop, 88HIPHOP.COM utilizes a variety of multimedia capabilities on the web, including audio & video, real time chat, message boards, net magazines (both text and graphics), and a daily Hip-Hop news update to bring the Hip-Hop community an interactive experience that features live shows that are archived along with commercials, enabling 24 hour on-demand access."

A Black Cultural Studies Web Site

http://www.tiac.net/users/thaslett

"This is an experimental Black cultural studies site set up because of a lack of resources on the internet around questions of ethnicity, race, and gender among populations of the African diaspora. (though there are certainly some wonderful exceptions) We certainly do not make any claims for this collection of resources as exhaustive. To begin the task, the creators of this page decided to include bibliographical information on cultural workers working in such areas as Black literary criticism, Black popular culture, Critical Race Theory and film theory. The decision was made to assemble this information under the rubric "Black Cultural Studies", a problematic and contested term which will no doubt require some revision. By deploying the term "cultural studies" we take as a starting principle the work of Stuart Hall and The Birmingham Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies. The signifier "Black" and the "meanings that have condensed onto it", in the words of Stuart Hall, form the conceptual basis of the web site. Because the construction and maintenance of this site is a formidable task, we began by risking what Gina Dent called "the essentialist gesture" in including only scholars of African descent. As you will discover from the list that follows, most of these thinkers/writers/cultural workers are situated in largely Euro-centered educational institutions in the U.S. and England. This too must be problematized because these institutions function as hegemonic sites. The wider project in cultural studies has always been to destabilize the disciplinary divisions of labor within the academy, as well as to move cultural and political work away from the confines of the academy. Nevertheless, those divisions are very much still in place. Thus, we decided not to create links to "film pages," "literature pages" as such. Instead, we intend to continually add cultural workers to this initial list at the same time expanding the bibliographies of the present group. In the future, we would like to include abstracts or entire articles, though copyrights may render this prohibitive. We hope that this web site will provide some helpful resources for those working to dismantle what bell hooks calls "the white supremacist, homophobic, capitalist patriarchy" we inhabit. This site is strictly non-commercial." [Nimmy Abiaka, Tim Haslett, Paula Lee]

African Fractals

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/comp/eglash.dir/afractal.htm

Computer models of recursive designs in African art, architecture, and knowledge systems.

African Indigenous Science & Knowledge Systems

http://members.aol.com/afsci/africana.htm

Various perspectives on Africa's indigenous knowledge systems from a wide range of scholars.

Afrique Virtuelle

http://www.cyberworkers.com/Leonardo/africa/index.shtml

"A group of African artists (painters, sculptors) from Burkina Faso : Claude-Marie KABRE, SAMA, Fernand NONKOUNI, BEYBSON, Blanche OUEDRAGO, Jean-Didier YANOGO, Suzanne OUEDRAOGO, Ali KERE, Sokey EDORH, Namsiguigna SAMANDOULOUGOU, Adama SAWADOGO, Boly SAMBO. Also presented in the gallery, the work of the painter Abdelkader Badaoui (From N'Djamena, Tchad); the sculptures and robots of Unisa Kargbo (from Sierra Leone); the sculptures of ABOUDRAMANE (from Ivory Coast); the paintings and sculptures of Godefroy KOUASSI (Togo)"

Afrofuturism & Feminism Hypertext Project

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/English295/carroll/gateway.html

Anacaona

http://www.dsuper.net/~anacaona/

Audio Gumbo Server Protocol

http://www.sfo.com/~mhadi/gumbo/

The Benjamin Banneker Network

http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~rds2u/homeframe.html

Black science institutions on-line.

The Black Panther

http://home.earthlink.net/~ramo1234/museum/panther.htm

"A Trailblazer in the history of Black Superheroes, the Black Panther's story is a story of "firsts". Definitely one of the first mainstream Black Heroes to be portrayed in a decent light, even though he was not created by a black artist. His name was T'Challa, Leader of the imaginary Wakanda nation and a scientist at heart. The Black Panther was portrayed as a dignified king and even the nation of Wakanda was a technologically advanced nation, while the TV show "Tarzan" showed Africans as incoherent jungle bunnies that were helpless without a loin cloth wearin', vine-swinging caucasian saving the day. We applaud Jack Kirby for not only having the wherewithal to create a Black character in the 60's but to show one in a positive light." [from the text at the site]

Black Pioneers of the Internet

http://www.delphi.com/blackpioneers/start/

Michael Bowen

What It Means To Be Black In Cyberspace

Cyber Sisters Club

http://www.lv.psu.edu/jkl1/sisters/

The Cyber Sisters Club at Penn State Lehigh Valley was formed as an after school activity for girls from an inner city elementary school in Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. For these girls, many of whom live in federally funded housing projects, being a Cyber Sister means a chance to catch the excitement of learning and creating with computers and the Internet. During club activities the girls also meet women who enjoy working with technology.

cy.Rev: A journal of Cybernetic Revolution, Sustainable Socialism, and Radical Democracy

http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/E-journals/CyRev/

Eurocentrism and the History of Science and Technology

http://members.aol.com/sekglo/racism.htm

Compiled by Gloria Emeagwali

Reid Harward

http://www.msys.net/reid/main.html

"Mirrorshades is the flicker of the reflection of the screenprinting on the surface of the clay. what do you see of yourself in the reflection of the print?

The mercurial visitor the flicker and the flash of the screenprinting is the ghost of the medium. The medium aspires to motion but must struggle in its attempt to represent. The frustration is played through a constant barrrage and assault on the visual cortex. The clay surface attempts to outdo television through its constant image assault. This is the stage of the superstar a là Andy Whorehall.

Mirror speed industry commercial. This is art without resistance. What are the situations that give rise to this wave of energy and where is it headed? The idea that something that is still before in time, that is sending waves of energy back that affect us, I can only say wow!" [Reid Harward]

History of Race in Science

http://di-145c.mit.edu/racesci/

Extensive MIT web site.

Nalo Hopkinson's SF writers of color links

http://www.sff.net/people/nalo/nalo/index.html

International Study Group on Ethnomathematics' African Math Links page

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/comp/isgem.dir/links.dir/african.htm

kode9

http://www.kode.demon.co.uk/

"Articles by Kodwo Eshun, the Ccru, underground resistance, rammellzee etc. about UK Jungle scene, breakbeat culture, afrofuturism, sinofuturism etc. etc." [kode9]

Art McGee's "Culture, Class and Cyberspace" links

http://www.igc.org/amcgee/e-race.html

Paul Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid)

www.djspooky.com

mongrel

http://www.mongrel.org.uk/Natural/Mongrel/mongrel.html

"Mongrel is a mixed bunch of people and machines working to celebrate the methods of an 'ignorant' and 'filthy' London street culture. We make socially engaged cultural product employing any and all technological advantage that we can lay our hands on. We have dedicated ourselves to learning technological methods of engagement, which means we pride ourselves on our ability to programme, engineer and build our own software and custom hardware. "

Obadike: African Diaspora and the Electronic Arts

http://members.tripod.com/~Obadike/ADEA.html

"We seek essays and interviews on the electronic arts in the African Diaspora for a book on the intersecting roles of new technology and identity in the creative work of people of African decent. Essays should discuss art, technology, and identity in the work of video artists, DJs, musicians, digital photographers, lighting designers, interactive installation designers, and performance artists. Examples would include artists such as Keith Piper, Ollie Wilson, King Tubby, and Adrian Piper. We encourage submissions from artists, graduate students, professors, and other interested parties."

Organization of Black Designers

http://www.core77.com/OBD/

Sistahspace

http://www.sistahspace.com/sitemap.html

The Tierra Project

http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/tierra/tierra.html

A project by zoologist Tom Ray, "in which he writes out alogrithms on his computer that are the equivalent of computer viruses that are allowed to follow follow programs of self replication in a digital environment, in a way, it lets a digital ecosystem evolve out of the strange primeval soup of his codes." [Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky)]

University of Iowa's African Americans in Media links

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/african.html

Virtual Africa

http://www.isea.qc.ca/africa/avva.html

An international network created under the aegis of Observatoire Leonardo des arts et des techno-sciences. Its primary goals are to create contexts for intellectuals, scientists and artists from Africa and other continents to exchange ideas.

WATER: Women's Access to Electronic Resources

http://www.monsterbit.com/water/

Established with the aim of providing a safe, comfortable, and inviting space in which women can acquire electronic communication skills to assist them in their work for justice and empowerment. The primary goal at WATER is to train women who can then return to their communities and share their skills, thus building a women's international cross-cultural media network. Read an interview about WATER.