The online portal GAMA is the product of an initiative launched by a consortium of renowned archives, distributors, universities and research institutions and private enterprises to enhance the access to media art for both the expert community and the interested public.

TZI, the Information Technology Centre , is part of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Bremen University, Germany and is a competitive research and technology transfer unit that has participated during the last years in many European projects with partners both from the industrial and the university research sector. The personnel participating in this project are members of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group and work in the area of image processing. One of the TZI's priorities is the research and development of tools for multimedia indexing and retrieval. TZI comprises Centres of Excellence as well as technology departments, which complement each other on the basis of application-oriented research.

More information at: www.tzi.de

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 by the court painter Peter Strudel making it  the oldest academy in Central Europe. In 1998, the Academy finally obtained the legal status of a university but retained its traditional name. Today, the Academy regards itself as an international field for experiments in contemporary art and architecture and as a place where theory and practice, science and art meet. An adequate artistic education is aimed at bridging the division between studio and seminar room and at showing that any artistic creation, every object in space also contains a certain amount of »theory« in its production and reception.

More information at: www.akbild.ac.at

Founded in 1919, AGH University of Science and Technology ranks as one of the top Polish universities involved in research and education in information technologies. The University consists of 15 faculties, and employs about 2000 faculty members serving nearly 30 000 students within undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education programmes. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) forms part of the Faculty of Electrical, Automatic Control, Computer and Electronic Engineering, and is an important centre for education and research in communications technology focusing on high-speed networking and services to the e-world.

More information at: www.agh.edu.pl

Argos is a Brussels based centre for art and media that was founded in 1989. Over the years the organisation has developed from a distributor of artists' video and film into a broader art centre incorporating also functions as exhibitions, screenings and events, production, conservation and preservation, publishing and the development of a public media library. argos has the largest Belgian collection of audio-visual works (mainly film and video works) made by artists, containing over 3,500 titles created by Belgian and international artists of different generations.

More information at: www.argosarts.org

Atos Origin is a major international IT services company. The company's annual revenues total over EUR 5 billion and it employs 47,000 people in 50 countries. The capacity to steer efficiently from the smallest internet web page to the whole software system of the Olympic Games since Barcelona 1992 is reflected in every single project in which Atos Origin has been involved. This ability has transformed this company into the European leader and the world key player that it is now. Atos Origin is a founding member of the European Technology Platform NESSI (Networked European Software and Services Initiative). The R&D+I department is composed of units specialised in different fields and applications such as e-learning, e-business, e-government, e-security, e-health, biotechnologies, GIS and Environmental Applications, Grid systems and software service unit specialised in semantics.

More information at: www.atosresearch.eu

C³ Center for Culture & Communication Foundation is an NGO or non-profit institution whose main focus is to foster meetings and co-operation among spheres of art, science and technology. C3 accomplishes research and developmental activities in the intermedia and interdisciplinary domains of media and visual culture: Production, presentation, dissemination and preservation of electronic media arts and culture (interactive installations, experimental multimedia, net-art); Web content development - contemporary (media) art collection, archive, documentation.

More information at: www.c3.hu

Since 1998 CIANT has been active at the international level in the field of culture, education and research related to new technologies. CIANT is an independent non-profit organisation that initiates and supports partnerships with individuals as well as institutions having a background intersecting art, science and technology. CIANT operates an art laboratory focused on innovative experiments with and development of interactive media.

More information at: www.ciant.cz

FILMFORM is a foundation dedicated to the promotion, distribution and preservation of Swedish art film and experimental video. FILMFORM is the oldest existing organization in Sweden devoted to film and video art. It is often engaged as an advisor to museums, galleries, universities and festivals. The FILMFORM collection includes titles from 1924 till today. FILMFORM is supported by the Ministry of Culture through the Arts Grants Committee.

More information at: www.filmform.com

Created in 1975, Heure Exquise ! is specialized in the promotion of video art and documentary film. Starting with an essentially creative project, Heure Exquise ! has progressively set up its activities of distribution, preservation, screenings and documentation in art video and electronic arts.

More information at: www.heure-exquise.org

The academic pillars of the University of the Arts Bremen are music, art, design and theory. Within Germany, the special combination of the music and visual arts department beneath one roof can only be found at the University of the Arts Bremen and the College of Art Berlin. Recent interdisciplinary developments in the fields of art and music (like video art, new media, digital media, auditory design) serve to underline the good sense of this fecund affiliation of disciplines.

More information at www.hfk-bremen.de

The Utrecht School of the Arts offers preparatory courses, Bachelor and Masters programmes and research degrees in fine art, design, music, theatre, media, games and interaction, arts education and arts management. With around 3,500 students, the Utrecht School of the Arts is one of the largest art and culture-oriented universities of applied sciences in Europe.

More information at: www.hku.nl

IN2 provides beyond the current state of the art solutions and services to search, explore, experience, innovate, access and interface with multimedia content. Our mission is to support libraries, broadcasting archives, and multimedia content repositories to become full service information providers and turn their digital content into digital assets. IN2's technologies are licensed to third party media asset management solution providers and for their excellence they have been awarded the "Innovationspreis 2007 ITK" in Germany. We work closely with top universities and are actively shaping European funded research in the fields of digital libraries, technology enhanced learning, eInclusion and intelligent content.

More information at: www.in-two.com

Every year since 1988, Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques have organized an international video and media arts festival which largely centres on Marseille, France but also travels to 15 other towns in 6 countries. Many other international screenings, workshops and conferences take place all year long. The festival's on-line archive comprises a collection of over 3000 entries by 1900 artists. More than a mere catalogue it is also an open virtual space for new kinds of encounters between artists, art works and new audiences.

More information at: www.instantsvideo.com

The institute was founded in 2005 to develop strategies for documenting, describing and preserving works of digital and media art. Ludwig Boltzmann Society (the national Austrian research society), University of Art and Industrial Design Linz, Ars Electronica Center and Lentos Museum of Art Linz constitute the partner consortium of the Institute. The Institute's mission is to archive, publish and perform scholarly work on media art and related media theory including the extensive holdings of the Ars Electronica Archive. Since 1979, the Ars Electronica Archive has, for a period of 25 years documented outstanding works of cyberart from Ars Electronica Festival and Prix Ars Electronica.

More information at: media.lbg.ac.at/en

The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) presentation department focuses on showing media art and organising exhibitions. Since the founding of the NIMk (1978) an extensive collection of video and media art has been assembled, to which new works are continually being added. In order to promote a wide public knowledge of media art, the NIMk carries on an active distribution and dissemination policy. The NIMk supports research by artists into the use of new media in the visual arts. Artists can be brought into contact with one another, collaborate, experiment, and create new work. Since 1992, the NIMk has developed into a centre of expertise for the conservation of media art. It provides a varied selection for various target audiences, including the general public, secondary schools, art academies and specialised groups such as artists, art historians and conservators.

More information at: www.montevideo.nl

SCCA Center for Contemporary Arts Ljubljana is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation. Our objective is to produce, stimulate and mediate innovative artistic and interpretative practices and to encourage international links between them. We provide the participants and users of contemporary art with the knowledge, tools and skills necessary for emancipated and reflected operation within the art system. Our activities trigger discursive and social practices, which are quite rare in our public space, showing that in the current situation  the intellectual and social impact of artistic practices are of fundamental strategic importance.

More information at: www.scca-ljubljana.si/infoengl.htm

Along with the Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (HfG) was founded in 1992 and offers the following subjects (diploma): Scenography/ Exhibition Design, Communication Design, Media Art and Product Design as well as Theory and History of Arts/ Media Theory, Philosophy and Aesthetics. The HfG sets its emphasis on relating art in its traditional form with the latest media technology, practical work experience and recently developed aesthetics. International artists are involved and projects are open to all students working together within the different disciplines.

More information at: solaris.hfg-karlsruhe.de/hfg/inhalt/de/Hochschule

The University of Barcelona (UB) is a public institution that distributes training in several fields and areas at both undergraduate and graduate levels. This includes departments of continuous and professional education as well as distance education. The Laboratory of Interactive Media (LMI) is the multimedia support centre for the UB quality research group VALL Comunication_Art_Education. The relevant research is currently being carried out and planned by VALL. Our expertise as a research group, supported by the LMI covers roughly any field related to e-learning and digital media: web design for education, e-learning content providing, user and interface evaluation, usability and audio-visual elements on the web, and digital video for education.

More information at: www.lmi.ub.es

The ZHdK was founded in 2007, merging the University of Theatre and Music (HMT) and the University of Art and Design (HGKZ). It is one of Europe's biggest art schools and offers the following Bachelor degrees: Design, Film, Theatre, Media and Fine Arts, Music, Music Performance, Arts and Design Education and postgraduate studies including a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) and Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS). The concept of the ZHdK is regionally positioned but at the same time it places emphasis on international and high quality educational and scientific training and further multidisciplinary projects which are also open to the public.

More information at: www.zhdk.ch

• Technologie-Zentrum Informatik
• Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
• Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza
• ARGOS centre for art & media
• ATOS Origin S.A.E.
• C³ Center for Culture & Communication
• Ciant International
• Filmform
• Heure Exquise!
• Hochschule für Künste Bremen
• Hogeschoolvoor de Kunsten Utrecht
• IN2 Search Interfaces Development Ltd.
• Les Instants Vidéo
• LBI Media.Art.Research.
• Netherlands Media Art Institute / Montevideo
• SCCA-Ljubljana
• Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
• Universitat de Barcelona
• Zürcher Hochschule der Künste