November 2006
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
by jlesage"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
Cyberstudies webring
by jlesagecollection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
by jlesagevideo by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
Center for History and New Media
by jlesage & 1 otherextensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
by jlesage"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
'The Science Of Ghosts' - Derrida In 'Ghost Dance' (1983)
by jlesageDerrida plays himself in 1983 film about concepts of memory; he says he is here a ghost in the art of ghosts, cinema. Many clips from this film found here
benditonontze.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
by jlesagea fascinating narrative flash animation, perhaps a metaphor about war in our times
Furtherfield Links
by jlesageextensive set of links to digital art projects, grouped by themes and types
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
by jlesagea useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
NMEDIAC : THE JOURNAL OF NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE : nmediac.net
by jlesagepapers and audiovisual texts on "the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses"
Gender Identity Panel - Resources
by jlesagelinks to many interesting online hypertext, visually innovative works; some links no longer functional
October 2006
PhD Project: Vernacular Creativity and New Media at creativity/machine
by jlesageabstract for thesis that sparks some interesting trains of thought
Swarming Media
by jlesageblog that give good reports on conferences and reviews of books, often on digital culture
Journal for MultiMedia History - Volume 3 (2000) Contents Page
by jlesagejournal of history that uses hypertext and multimedia
I Want Media - Media News & Resources
by jlesage & 1 othermedia headlines, regrettably no RSS feed for site
"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink
by jlesageWe live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.
September 2006
Second Story Interactive Studios
by jlesagea collection of exemplary multimedia projects, some for exhibitions, some hypertext fiction. Many available. Good models for students learning how to do such projects in terms of design and useability.
July 2006
timescape syllabus
by jlesagecourse outline with interesting links, especially lecture notes: "Since the birth of cinema, architectural and urban space, and ideas of landscape have played a crucial role in the visual representation of space on screen."
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