December 2006
artists and art...the-artists.org
by jlesage & 1 other
extended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists
November 2006
ArtLex on New Media
by jlesage
entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
by jlesage & 4 others
portal to essays, museums, art work web reproductions
Visual Culture and the Contemporary City
by jlesage
extensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
by jlesage
"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
by jlesage
large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
ArtLex Art Dictionary
by jlesage & 3 others
search, arranged in alphabetical order, large number of terms
Theories of Internet Culture and Internet Textuality by Janez Strehovec, Ph.D.
by jlesage
useful and intriguingly designed website, with resources such as essays, links, keywords and definitions pages
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
by jlesage
by Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
by jlesage
Introduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
by jlesage
very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
Book Review of "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"
by jlesage
Filmmakers and writers need to be aware of the history and social practice "spoken" by spaces and places. This is about the politics of gardens.
translate.eipcp.net - translate.eipcp.net
by jlesage
a multilingual web journal that challenges received ideas about linguistic and cultural "translation" along principles of a critique of culturalisation; social recomposition, beyond postcolonialism: a global commons; multilinguality vs. national language
howstuffismade.org
by jlesage
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
October 2006
Anxious Libraries
by jlesage
wonderfully designed hypertext project on what libraries might mean today, with all those books few people read; a model of a hypertext exploration of an important intellectual topic
A Rape in Cyberspace By Julian Dibbell
by jlesage
1993, complete text of essay delineating important event in Internet history
June 2006
May 2006
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