01 December 2006
Media Art Net | Sitemap
by jlesageEnglish site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet
Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty
by jlesage"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.
Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10
by jlesage & 2 othersCanadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
by jlesage & 3 othersa basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
Trinh T. Minh-ha essay
by jlesageNot You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha
30 November 2006
26 November 2006
22 November 2006
DIGITALSOULS.COM - new media art | philosophy | culture
by jlesage"one of the longest continuously running online galleries and e-zines dedicated to new media art, digital culture and philosophy; contributions by international artists and writers including Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, John Berger, Sean Cubitt, Susan Sontag..."
20 November 2006
Theories of Internet Culture and Internet Textuality by Janez Strehovec, Ph.D.
by jlesageuseful and intriguingly designed website, with resources such as essays, links, keywords and definitions pages
Notes on The Gaze
by jlesageDaniel Chandler's overview of the use of an important concept in media theory
Welcome to Transparency
by jlesage & 1 other"interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture"
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
by jlesageby Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
by jlesageIntroduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Changing Approaches to Cultural Landscapes
by jlesagegood overview of shifts in theory and focus of studies
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
by jlesage & 1 othervery well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers
Aesthetics and Visual Culture
by jlesageextensive links page, from a philosophy disciplinary perspective; updated Aug. 06
Joel Kovel
by jlesagemany of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator
Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world by Peter Jackson
by jlesageFocusing on the resilience of distinctive local consumption cultures, with evidence from three contrasting consumption cultures: consumption and 'public culture' in India, 'consumer nationalism' in China, and 'artful consumption' in Russia.
19 November 2006
Cabinet Magazine Online -
by jlesagea quarterly journal of art, design, culture; partly playful, some art, some scholarly essays; good mix of specific reviews and overviews
18 November 2006
16 November 2006
Invisible Culture-An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture-University of Rochester
by jlesage & 1 otherproblematizes the unquestioned alliance between culture and visibility