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December 2006

other people's stories

by jlesage
Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time.

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society

by jlesage & 2 others
"Our interests extend to the wondrous, the curious, the singular, the esoteric, the arcane, and the sometimes hazy frontier between the plausible and the implausible." a whacky collection

Media Art Net | Sitemap

by jlesage
English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet

Flickhead

by jlesage
online film journal, offbeat and cult as well as international film covered

Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10

by jlesage & 2 others
Canadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources

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

Boston Review

by jlesage & 1 other
left political and literary review, good writing

A Virtual Library of Useful URLs - Subject Headings Arranged by Dewey

by jlesage
some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification System

Dr. Chris Mullen, The Visual Telling of Stories, illustration, design, film, narrative sequences, magazines, books, prints etc

by jlesage & 1 other
a very large historical archive, often from advertising, "to provide for all levels of possible viewer a visually orientated taxonomy of the ways in which pictures are used to tell stories." unique collection, also useful for many other purposes

Pew Internet: Riding the Waves of "Web 2.0"

by jlesage
10/06 report from one of the major sources of information on Internet use in the United States

ArtLex on New Media

by jlesage
entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful

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.

Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle

by jlesage
Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice

(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography

by jlesage
blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint

Community and Activist Video - Welcome to the Videosphere!

by jlesage
especially about Chicago in the 1970s and 80s; the experimental and activist media communities have always been close here

Chicago's Video Underground

by jlesage
1973 article about portapak pioneers in Chicago video, also Dan Sandin, who invented an early image processor; it's about my generation and my people, so I love it, as I loved the Sandin Image Processor

Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

by jlesage
one of the most important exhibitions of our time, also raising questions about the ethics of exhibiting violence in our media culture today

Geoff Stahl - Still 'Winning Space?': Updating Subcultural Theory

by jlesage
deals with the impact of computer mediated communication on subcultural theory; refutes role of "authenticity"; good overview of shifts in field

Center for History and New Media

by jlesage & 1 other
extensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center

October 2006

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