Great sources Denise ... which reminds me that one should always look at the Edward Tufte books for the relation between visual imagery and information. (see http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/) /Caroline ---- Original message ----

Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:53:20 -0800 (PST) From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Analyzing user generated multimedia content To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org

Dera Anders -

Very interesting topic here.

Kress at least mentions a grammar of visual design which I think would be helpful (if it were possible). After one builds the grammar, then the analysis would be possible.

Here is an interesting little book on how to read the visual from an art historical perspective. Don't think that's wanted here but at least shows an insertion point into the study of images from a cultural perspective.

Dikovitskaya, M. (2005). Visual culture: the study of the visual after the cultural turn. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.

Kress, with a link: Kress, G. and T. van Leeuwen (1996). Reading images: The grammar of visual design. London, Routledge. Here's a link to one of his newer papers. http://www.knowledgepresentation.org/BuildingTheFuture/Kress2/Kress2.html

This went around on the list a while ago:

VIRTUAL ART From Illusion to Immersion by Oliver Grau A Leonardo Book published by MIT Press (January 2003, ISBN 0-262-07241-6, 7 x 9, 360 pp., 89 illus)

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