public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags SocialNetworking & visualarts

December 2006

BBC - collective - the interactive culture magazine

by 4 others
a social networking site in which BBC offers cultural reviews, with clips, and readers comment or write alternative reviews; readers also submit own reviews

November 2006

Storytelling in Flickr on Flickr

various modes of flickr storytelling are described, and the keywords needed to get to them

Video History Project: Resources

information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment

Revealing Pictures & Reflexive Frames 2004

visual anthropology open archive, photos with comments: "opportunity to examine photographic modes of communication across societies, cultures, and academic worlds"

howstuffismade.org

visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty

October 2006

virtualpolitik

"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

expanded discussion of a workshop on this topic. See "theses" by Munster and Lovink

"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink

We live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.

Overview of a Distributed Aesthetics workshop

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.

August 2006

a_film_by

Yahoo discussion group, focusing on the relations between film form, style, meaning, and authorship.