October 2006
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.
Critique of Ranking and Listing; Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin
by jlesage
"Our increasing emphasis on quantitative reductions, like ranking lists, at the expense of critically engaged qualitative thought, can be seen as bottom-line strategies for efficiently navigating our increasingly .. networked cybernetic order."
Overview of a Distributed Aesthetics workshop
by jlesage
considering a new kind of network or network-assisted art, such as Internet or cell phone facilitated performances, on or offline; using locative media; Creative Commons, etc. An older idea was Internet Art.
net critique » Interview with Sole 24 Ore: Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths
by jlesage
social software's potential shaping of the Internet, journalism, business--or not
Street Media: A Thesis Proposal
by jlesage
Images found in an urban environment and how to evaluate them: a key component of photography, film, photos, visual anthropology.
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.
course outline on social construction of space
by jlesage
understanding this topic is crucial for folks in the visual arts, especially documentarians
"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.
Martin Irvine, Georgetown University
by jlesage
useful website of communication, culture, and technology professor; many links to courses,lectures, slideshows and essays on art, visual culture, media theory
re-public: re.imagining democracy
by jlesage
e-journal: "process of re-imagining democracy, broadly conceived as referring to the multitude of practices that shape everyday life"; in-depth left essays from an international perspective
WIRED 3.02: "Viruses Are Good for You" by Julian Dibbell
by jlesage
a theory of the benefits of computer viruses
August 2006
July 2006
timescape syllabus
by jlesage
course outline with interesting links, especially lecture notes: "Since the birth of cinema, architectural and urban space, and ideas of landscape have played a crucial role in the visual representation of space on screen."
June 2006
user experience design
by jlesage & 2 others
Peter Morville, whose book Ambient Findability, is a classic about user experience of the Internet here says users want a site that is useful, usable, desirable, findable, accessible, credible. Common sense, but rarely said so clearly!
