November 2006
illusions.html
by jlesage
a page of links to visual illusions and their explanations; kids love these
LibrarySpot.com: Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more.
by jlesage & 7 others
from "start spot" which has other such categorized listing pages for movies, shopping, museums, etc.
BibliOdyssey's bookmarks on del.icio.us
by jlesage
collects links to archives of historical collections of images from around the world and across history
The Authentic History Center:
by jlesage & 1 other
Popular culture images in historical and other categories
Overview Map "digital enlightenment: research"
by jlesage
a visual map, with links, of how to use metasites for knowledge acquisition, research, and reading online; author has other such maps on his site; useful for students as mode of presenting info and for info itself.
Multimedia - From Wagner to Virtual Reality
by jlesage
attractive web site dealing with concepts, pioneers, images, theory
Invincible Cities
by jlesage
photographic exploration of two poor cities, a combination of Walter Benjamin's interest in traces and overlays with systematic, extensive visual ethnography
"Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary"
by jlesage
essay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
by jlesage & 56 others
You sign up, enter the name of a book, then find out what other folks who liked that book also liked; a tag cloud for the book leads to other books on this topic. Quite addictive, and I just used it to look at the info. around one book.
October 2006
course outline on photography and place
by jlesage
using photography as disciplined mode of exploration, expressing ideas
graphic illustration of data about US
by jlesage & 2 others
I learned new search terms for visualization: infosthetics or infoviz.
what to think about so many lurkers
by jlesage & 2 others
more lurkers than online writers--do you need to worry about it?
b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal :: all issues
by jlesage
"writings cutting across and between politics, media, literature, history, law, science, medicine, philosophy, economics, music, film and more." Attractive and informative graphic design for ejournal homepage.
"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.
August 2006
www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site
by jlesage & 1 other
attractively designed and easy to understand hyperlinks
July 2006
Visual Thesaurus
by designative & 13 others
Visual Thesaurus is an 3D interactive tool that encourages exploration of semantic relationships in the English language. This remarkable software creates an animated display of words and meanings, placing your word at the center of a display which connec
"Design Research": an interview with Brenda Laurel
by designative
Brenda Laurel interview excerpt on Design Research from the upcoming book "Designing for Interaction", by Dan Saffer
Women researchers, designers & artists working in pervasive computing-related fields
by jlesage
list of women in new media technology
eye | the international review of graphic design
by jlesage & 2 others
new journal of graphic design and visual culture
