October 2006
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
RUT } Radical Urban Theory: writings on the modern urban condition
by jlesage
includes many essays by Mike Davis
placekraft
by jlesage
generating and studying: tactical urbanism, speculative cartography, ephemeral/vernacular architecture, and itinerant practices
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
Welcome to the Information Processing Content Web Site
by jlesage
very useful lesson plans for Internet theory and use, digital photograph, desktop publishing
what to think about so many lurkers
by jlesage & 2 others
more lurkers than online writers--do you need to worry about it?
b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal :: all issues
by jlesage
"writings cutting across and between politics, media, literature, history, law, science, medicine, philosophy, economics, music, film and more." Attractive and informative graphic design for ejournal homepage.
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.
"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.
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.
OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"
by jlesage
Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture
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.
Medical Animation and Medical Illustration
by jlesage
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
www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site
by jlesage & 1 other
attractively designed and easy to understand hyperlinks
Media Studies - Televisuality
by jlesage
a wonderful site, with examples, that explains how tv works visually
July 2006
Terry Mockler's Journey Through Cyberspace
by jlesage
newmedia maker and writer has several interesting blog sites; goal is to develop "readership by utilizing writing to probe cyberspace for post-literate identities."
Film Sound Design - Film Sound Theory
by jlesage
art and analysis of film sound; interviews with sound designers of feature films
