21 October 2006
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by jlesage
artist and teacher's web site; under "digital storytelling" are wonderful quicktime movies, often from South America or in Latino USA, with subtitles; an exemplar of documentaries on the Internet
18 October 2006
The Center for American Places Online Gallery
by jlesage
photogallery of many US sites, seen with critical and loving eyes
Imaginary Museum Projects - Tjebbe van Tijen
by jlesage & 1 other
innovative uses of image and text in a wide range of projects, many cultural and historical, to create an uniquely online museum-like experience
12 Principles of Web Writing and Design
by jlesage
from teacher Craig Stroupe, who has online many useful teaching tools across tech and cultural fields
17 October 2006
Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog
by jlesage
panoramic pictures and social context; often witty in their detail
graphic illustration of data about US
by jlesage & 2 others
I learned new search terms for visualization: infosthetics or infoviz.
architechtural, music, media blog
by jlesage & 2 others
well written; of use to media people, especially for mise en scene, ways of attending to space
16 October 2006
WRT: Writer Response Theory
by jlesage & 1 other
"exploration of digital character art — any art involving electrons and making use of letters, alphanumerics, or other characters in an interesting way"
2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
by jlesage
06 winners, with photos and explanations in a slide show
Slide Show: Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2005
by jlesage
winners and honorable mention, with photos and explanations
15 October 2006
Welcome to the Information Processing Content Web Site
by jlesage
very useful lesson plans for Internet theory and use, digital photograph, desktop publishing
10 October 2006
poems that GO : archives
by jlesage
wonderful visual, hypertext, audio poetry that is interactive; not kept current although archive is online
09 October 2006
05 October 2006
virtualpolitik
by jlesage
"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.
03 October 2006
"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.
02 October 2006
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.
01 October 2006
OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"
by jlesage
Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture
28 September 2006
lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other visual arts
by jlesage & 5 others
blog includes attractive reproductions of many illustrations
25 September 2006
Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software
by jlesage
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.
24 September 2006
the complete idiot's [eejit's] guide to all aspects of filmmaking
by jlesage
clear and witty, useful for practitioners as refresher or for students, especially production teachers
16 September 2006
IDEA Photographic | After Modernism
by jlesage
a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations
15 September 2006
Dave Miller Art Blog
by jlesage
visual artist rethinking what narrative might mean with Internet, flashmobs, etc.
