October 2006
WRT: Writer Response Theory
by jlesage & 1 other
"exploration of digital character art — any art involving electrons and making use of letters, alphanumerics, or other characters in an interesting way"
Audio slide show: Bluegrass music's man of steel
by jlesage
example of how to incorporate personal history, music, and slides in portrait of dobro player and singer; also shows effectiveness of short, under three minute, audio slide show documentaries.
Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler
by jlesage
semiotics, like connotation, and metaphor and metonymy are terms that convey how images bear meaning; valuable for anyone interested in film and photography
jan van eyck . avantgarde film biopolitics
by jlesage
list of films and readings putting together a film series and discussions of biopolitics in a new and interesting way; complete texts of accompanying theoretical readings
Bright Lights Film Journal | Welcome!
by jlesage & 1 other
well designed web site, excellent essays, covers experimental and gay/lesbian work
virtualpolitik
by jlesage
"A blog about digital rhetoric that asks the burning questions about electronic bureaucracy and institutional subversion on the Internet." Well-written, points to developments in the arts and on the web that otherwise might go unnoticed.
Collectivate.net -- Distributed Aesthetics
by jlesage
expanded discussion of a workshop on this topic. See "theses" by Munster and Lovink
Dada: Distributed Aesthetics Workshop - Institute of Network Cultures
by jlesage
wiki from the workshop, see also essay by Munster and Lovink
"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink
by jlesage
We live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.
course outline on space, place, and landscape in contemporary art
by jlesage
You will need to cut and paste URLs into your browser, but there is much here to followup on in terms of bibliography and links.
"Junk Food Nation: Colwyn Griffith's Tourism Photographs" by Robert Evans
by jlesage
theory of tourist photogaphy discussed
H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance
by jlesage
For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.
The Kitchen - Essays
by jlesage
"SELECTION OF ESSAYS AND PUBLICATIONS RELEVANT TO ART, CRAFT AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF VIDEO"
African-American Material, Visual, and Literary Culture on the World Wide Web
by jlesage
innovative approach to exploring cultural expression over many forms
September 2006
Visual Ethnography and Anthropology Links
by jlesage
of interest to anyone interested in documentary
IDEA Photographic | After Modernism
by jlesage
a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations
August 2006
Interactive Narratives
by jlesage & 4 others
contemporary interactive image-audio sites, many from the news or cultural venues like concerts or museums
July 2006
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by jlesage
Ed Halter's reviews of avant-garde film, often for the Village Voice, and his observations on the experimental film world
MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling Software - Software
by jlesage
"Photos as individual frames in an endless story board, allowing sound, video, documents and URLs added to each frame. "
