December 2006
BBC - collective - the interactive culture magazine
by 4 othersa social networking site in which BBC offers cultural reviews, with clips, and readers comment or write alternative reviews; readers also submit own reviews
Dr. Bruce Klopfenstein's Interactive Television Blog via Firefox
articulate discussions of impact of new media on TV and the interaction between the two
November 2006
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
MIT communications forum archive
the various programs are on many topics of media and mass communications; available in audio, video, or print format; good overview of contemporary media issues by academics and practitioners
Mediascape
ejournal, interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture
DIGITALSOULS.COM - new media art | philosophy | culture
"one of the longest continuously running online galleries and e-zines dedicated to new media art, digital culture and philosophy; contributions by international artists and writers including Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, John Berger, Sean Cubitt, Susan Sontag..."
Visual Studies Fine Arts Videos 2002-2003
advanced students' video projects online, from Univ of Toronto
Video History Project: Resources - Collections & Distribution Links
documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US
Word Circuits
"This is a place for poetry and fiction born to pixels rather than the page--writing that's digital down to its bones." An excellent resource with both online poetry, often Flash poetry, and other links.
Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext and Flash animated poems
uses the duration of video to make kinetic poetry that has a narrative in the words and beyond them; nice example for students of simple form with complex effects
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
MIT--media in transition 05: the work of stories
much of the conference is available in av form or papers or abstracts.
'The Science Of Ghosts' - Derrida In 'Ghost Dance' (1983)
Derrida plays himself in 1983 film about concepts of memory; he says he is here a ghost in the art of ghosts, cinema. Many clips from this film found here
Scope - Institute of Film Studies journal
published by Univ of Nottingham
ArtandCulture
information on the visual arts, performing arts, design, literature, music and film; short entries on major figures
NONTZEFLASH 2007 - 4. ANIMATED FILM COMPETITION
award winning flash animation films
benditonontze.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
a fascinating narrative flash animation, perhaps a metaphor about war in our times
Photoethnography.com
links to courses compiled by Karen Nakamura, who notes that most courses in Visual Anthropology teach visual analysis and not visual production
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
October 2006
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
Planned Obsolescence
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a media teacher and is spearheading an important online project for media scholars, Media Commons. Her blog has many teaching resources and summaries of sessions at the recent Flow TV Conference.
August 2006
Videos on Web Widen the Lens On the Conflict
the war in Lebanon on YouTube
Digital Aesthetics
site to accompany Sean Cubitt's book Digital Aesthetics
July 2006
Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
a relatively new film studies blog, reviews texts, offers syllabi
timescape syllabus
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."
