public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags academic & visualarts

06 November 2006

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

Photoethnography.com

links to courses compiled by Karen Nakamura, who notes that most courses in Visual Anthropology teach visual analysis and not visual production

Photoethnography.com - Links

by Karen Nakamura; how-to and disciplinary links

Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry

Course outline and reading list for fine arts course on landscape photography; excellent bibliography; will require a trip to the photography books section of a fine arts library

01 November 2006

Project Premises : Sed : A Trail of Thirst

hypertext and visual arts project on southwest US and politics of the border; extensive essay with incorporated artistic material; new vision of documentary media, visual ethnography

U B U W E B

by 28 others
"independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts"; lots on experimental film

21 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

18 October 2006

12 Principles of Web Writing and Design

from teacher Craig Stroupe, who has online many useful teaching tools across tech and cultural fields

syllabus05: Visual Studies and Visual Culture

follow up on the links to his slide shows, with images from history of art; also links to online materials of interest

17 October 2006

Vectors

Journal of Cultural and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

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.

Papers for the 06 International Symposium on Electronic Arts

many full text papers available, with theoretical reflections and case studies, across media

15 October 2006

Welcome to the Information Processing Content Web Site

very useful lesson plans for Internet theory and use, digital photograph, desktop publishing

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

05 October 2006

rutgers english: cyberlit

attractive website for course, including online versions of student projects

03 October 2006

Collectivate.net -- Distributed Aesthetics

expanded discussion of a workshop on this topic. See "theses" by Munster and Lovink

02 October 2006

Street Media: A Thesis Proposal

Images found in an urban environment and how to evaluate them: a key component of photography, film, photos, visual anthropology.

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.

course outline on social construction of space

understanding this topic is crucial for folks in the visual arts, especially documentarians