November 2006
What Can We Do With Flickr? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
by jlesagehow to create hotspots with popup notes on Flickr. Very useful for image analysis and assignment requiring students to comment on social aspects or formal aspects of image; or to formally critique them.
lens culture: contemporary photography magazine
by jlesage & 4 othersPhotographyy internationally: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, lyrical, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. Essays, interviews with photographers, reviews of exhibitions and photo books.
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
Digital Photography Techniques
by jlesagebrief description with visual examples of how depth of field, dynamic range, and field of view can evoke a hightened emotional response in a photo's viewer
The Mirror Project: Adventures in Reflective Surfaces
by jlesage & 4 otherscollection of images from people who photographed themselves in reflective surfaces; since this is a favorite tactics of lovers of light, many images are well composed and intriguing
Welcome to House of Lime
by jlesage & 2 otherscheck out category "dings" to see a huge collection of innovative dingbats
KQED - Digital Storytelling Initiative
by jlesageView and listen to the projects of people of all ages
U B U W E B
by jlesage & 28 others"independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts"; lots on experimental film
October 2006
Media Chops
by jlesagethe techniques and aesthetics of media making, including animation; wonderfully designed site
STORYTRON - Interactive Storytelling
by jlesageSoftware for something between a game and literary hypertext. "Storytronics uses Verbs to define what may happen in interactive storytelling. Each Verb represents one possible dramatic action, like a kiss, a demand, or an advice." Looks like fun.
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by jlesageartist and teacher's web site; under "digital storytelling" are wonderful quicktime movies, often from South America or in Latino USA, with subtitles; an exemplar of documentaries on the Internet
translations of essays on activist art
by jlesageOn 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.
2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
by jlesage06 winners, with photos and explanations in a slide show
Slide Show: Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2005
by jlesagewinners and honorable mention, with photos and explanations
poems that GO : archives
by jlesagewonderful visual, hypertext, audio poetry that is interactive; not kept current although archive is online
WIRED 3.02: "Viruses Are Good for You" by Julian Dibbell
by jlesagea theory of the benefits of computer viruses
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.
February 2006
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