November 2006
www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site
large site, attractive new design as of 11/06. essays, links, delving into popular culture and playing with it, theoretical explorations and savvy; highly recommended
LibrarySpot.com: Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more.
by 7 othersfrom "start spot" which has other such categorized listing pages for movies, shopping, museums, etc.
Overview Map "digital enlightenment: research"
a visual map, with links, of how to use metasites for knowledge acquisition, research, and reading online; author has other such maps on his site; useful for students as mode of presenting info and for info itself.
Internet resources for course on web art production
links to theory, artists sites, institutional resources, good sites for tutorials, and ejournals on/for web art
howstuffismade.org
visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
by 56 othersYou sign up, enter the name of a book, then find out what other folks who liked that book also liked; a tag cloud for the book leads to other books on this topic. Quite addictive, and I just used it to look at the info. around one book.
October 2006
Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens
for those interested in infoaesthetics, this set of 57 images about aspects of knowledge is a stimulating philosophical exercise and a way to ask students how they might have made an image of similar interacting concepts
12 Principles of Web Writing and Design
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
includes many essays by Mike Davis
Vectors
Journal of Cultural and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
Welcome to the Information Processing Content Web Site
very useful lesson plans for Internet theory and use, digital photograph, desktop publishing
b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal :: all issues
"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.
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.
Visual Culture Bibliography
seems to have been written about 2003
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.
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
www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site
by 1 otherattractively designed and easy to understand hyperlinks
July 2006
Women researchers, designers & artists working in pervasive computing-related fields
list of women in new media technology
eye | the international review of graphic design
by 2 othersnew journal of graphic design and visual culture
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
Space Time Travel - Relativity Visualized
Online papers, images, movies and paper models of the theory of relativity
Film Sound Design - Film Sound Theory
art and analysis of film sound; interviews with sound designers of feature films
May 2006
