17 October 2006
multilingual web journal
check out sections to left on main page, and also writings listed under "correspondence"
translations of essays on activist art
On republicart, click on the words listed to the left under Discourse to see essays on topics such as: alternative economics, public sphere, precariousness, represenations, space of empire, art sabotage.
influence of Henri Lefevre
Stuart Elden traces influence of Lefevre's concept of space on contemporary theorists like Castells
Papers for the 06 International Symposium on Electronic Arts
many full text papers available, with theoretical reflections and case studies, across media
A Brief History of Parking
essay: "A Brief History of Parking: The Life and After-life of Paving the Planet" by Jane Holtz Kay; again, reading social geographers enhances media making, especially non-fiction
Mute
online magazine exploring "culture after the net"
architechtural, music, media blog
by 2 otherswell written; of use to media people, especially for mise en scene, ways of attending to space
16 October 2006
Urban Communication
urban life, communication, and technology
Kate Bornstein's Blog for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws: The Voice Lesson
"Kate Bornstein in a slide show version of "The Voice Lesson," a trans-positive, feminist, funny look at how women are expected to talk." Makes good use of audio as unique medium for exposition of this content. Example of how audio slide show works.
09 October 2006
Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler
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
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
05 October 2006
Rob Shields | Publications
many full text essays on space, including online space
Bibliography on Spatialization
Links to essays on space and place
Cultural Studies Central
last updated, 2002; a plan and partial execution of a clearinghouse, discussion formum, journal
Theorizing in real time: hyperaesthetics for the technoculture
"As bad as bad media aesthetics are when static, they will worsen as they become interactive. It is not enough to struggle towards hypermedia: we need to develop a hyperaesthetic."
DIY Media Weblog
new blog as of Sept 06, good authors; participatory democracy in Internet communications
Networked Public Culture
theses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.
03 October 2006
Dada: Distributed Aesthetics Workshop - Institute of Network Cultures
wiki from the workshop, see also essay 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.
02 October 2006
course outline on space, place, and landscape in contemporary art
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
theory of tourist photogaphy discussed
H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance
For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.
01 October 2006
African-American Material, Visual, and Literary Culture on the World Wide Web
innovative approach to exploring cultural expression over many forms
Martin Irvine, Georgetown University
useful website of communication, culture, and technology professor; many links to courses,lectures, slideshows and essays on art, visual culture, media theory
