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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags visualarts & design

October 2006

Flicker

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major site for alternative experimental film/video; "Here you will find films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception and provide cutting edge alternatives to the media info

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.

"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.

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.

OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"

Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture

September 2006

Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software

The 1920s avant garde "revolution" in film, arts, typography, and architecture has become part of computer hard- and software design; new media does not now provide new ways of seeing but radically new ways of using already accumulated media.

the complete idiot's [eejit's] guide to all aspects of filmmaking

clear and witty, useful for practitioners as refresher or for students, especially production teachers

IDEA Photographic | After Modernism

a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations

Dave Miller Art Blog

visual artist rethinking what narrative might mean with Internet, flashmobs, etc.

Second Story Interactive Studios

a collection of exemplary multimedia projects, some for exhibitions, some hypertext fiction. Many available. Good models for students learning how to do such projects in terms of design and useability.

Medical Animation and Medical Illustration

Beautiful online animation of the Life of a Cell. I want to return to the site to learn what I just saw means.

August 2006

Media Studies - Televisuality

a wonderful site, with examples, that explains how tv works visually

Interactive Narratives

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contemporary interactive image-audio sites, many from the news or cultural venues like concerts or museums

Physics Flash Animations

fascinating mixture of visual art and science

girish

originator of avant-garde blogathon, Aug. 2, 2006; good links on left to other film blogs; Aug. 2 entry has links to bloggers who responded to call.

Notes on the Cinema Stylographer: Ganeden, 2003

contains a list of every blogger that contributed to the avant-garde film blogathon, a good compilation of bloggers interested in the topic. This blog gathers intelligent comments for its postings.

a_film_by

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

Supposed Aura

avant garde film, video, YouTube commented on and linked to

July 2006

Film Analysis

an extensive and well illustrated--with stills and clips--analysis of film aesthetics and terminology; a good basic resource for any media teacher or film lover to spend time working through