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course text
Gary Rosenzweig, Advanced Lingo for Games, Hayden Books $45
Macromedia Director Shockwave Studio for 3D, Macromedia.com $45.00
The Construction of Experience: Interface as Content David Rokeby 
         http://www.interlog.com/~drokeby/experience.html
Lev Manovich,    New Media User's Guide     text by Manovich
Hal Foster, Vision and Visuality
Dave Hickey, The Invisible Dragon :Four Essays on Beauty
Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman
E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
Laura Steward Heon, Game Show, art exhibition catalog (North Adams, Massachusetts: 2001)  purchase at: http://www.massmoca.org/hardware/books.html   $15.00
Dave Gussow, Video Games as Art, St. Petersburg Times (Saint Petersburg, FL: Feb. 9, 2004)
The Rules of Play, Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman (Boston: MIT Press, 2003).  $45 hardcover
Advanced Lingo for Games, Gary Rosenzweig (Que; Book and CD-ROM edition, 2000). $31
Mastering Maya Complete,  Perry Harovas John L. Kundert-Gibbs, Sybex, Incorporated
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, Hyperion,
Cartoon Animation, Preston Blair, Walter Foster Publisher
Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right, Jason Osipa
Maya Character Animation, 2nd edition, check for the most current, Jae-jin Choi

games and art
www.jamescohan.com/past/   Click on Exhibitions for The Game Show
www.c-level.cc/  
www.eddostern.com/   Eddo Stern
proxy.arts.uci.edu/~nideffer/   Robert Niedeffer
www.maryflanagan.com
www.f.waseda.jp/kusahara/media/ Machiko Kusahara
www.manetas.com Miltos Manetas


learn director text
Developer Dispatch Bookstore
Peach Pit Press
Macromedia Press


classes
Basic Director Class at NYU older
http://stage.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~danclass/ICM/
http://www.vision.cs.ucla.edu/   computer vision


tips
Developer Dispatch Director Links
Jim Collins' Smoke & Mirrors Technotes
Lingo Web Tutorial
Peter Small's Lingo Socery
Macromedia Tech notes
Macromedia 3D shockwave examples
robotduck.com/learning/index.htm
www.iotic.com     fun samples.. maybe we can show this in class..
www.lingoworkshop.com     lots of interesting scripts...
www.havok.com/xtra Extra for dynamic effects like particles, good examples as well.


product developers suppliers
http://webcamxtra.sourceforge.net/   Josh Nimoy's Webcam Xtra
http://webcamxtra.jtnimoy.com A free camera vision Director Xtra.
http://www.updatestage.com/products_table.html     Lingo a complete listing of extras.
DreamLight's Director Talisman
Developers Dispatch
Icube, Infusionsystems
Sensor Magazine sensor search engine
Global Spec.com sensors
ezio.com EZIO site 
http://www.artic.edu/~bchang/ezio/   Free ezio director extra 
www.directextras.com/index.htm DirrectComm Serial Extra for EZIO etc.
www.allelectronics.com electronics supplier
www.digikey.com electronics supplier
www.mouser.com electronics supplier
www.kitsrus.com interesting sensors
http://3dpi-director.com/   Nice 3D viewer Xtra


3D Computer Graphics and FX
BruinFX.com
Alias Wavefront
biomotionlab.ca walking example
Gnomon, 3D Computer Graphics Training Facility
Jeremy Birn's Career Advice
3dcafe.com
3D  Design Magazine
3dup.com  free 3D models
raph.com
www.viewpoint.com
www.pulse3d.com
zoorender.com
highend3d.com
3dlinks.com
theforce.net/scifi3d
www.3dbuzz.com/


artists etc
Jim Campbell www.jimcampbell.tv
Rebecca Allen  emergence.design.ucla.edu/
Jennifer Steinkamp   http://jsteinkamp.com/
Jodi   www.jodi.org
Maeda  acg.media.mit.edu/people/maeda/
Victoria Vesna   http://time.arts.ucla.edu/AI_Society/vesna_essay.html
Marcos Novac http://www.centrifuge.org/marcos/
Eduardo Kac  http://www.ekac.org/
David Rokeby   http://www.interlog.com/~drokeby
etoy (not to be confused with etoys) http://fanclub.etoy.c3.hu/
Cameron McNall   http://electroland.net
Woody and Steina Vasulka
Josh Nimoy stage.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~jn429
Ben Rubin www.earstudio.com
Inigio Mangale-Ovalle
Karin Sander
John Simon
Robert Lazarini
Andreas Gursky
Erik Swenson
Komar and Melamid
Moriko Mori
Christian Möller users.design.ucla.edu/projects/arc/cm/  
Mark Pauline, SRL, Survial research Labs srl.org  
John F. Simon Jr. www.numeral.com
John Gerrard - www.johngerrard.net
Michael Joaquin Grey - www.bitforms.com/artist_grey.html
Yael Kanarek - www.worldofawe.com
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - www.lozano-hemmer.com
Marco Maggi - www.crjbgallery.com/artists/Marco_Maggi/Marco_Maggi.html
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy - www.mccoyspace.com
Michael Rees - www.michaelrees.com
Michael Somoroff - www.bitforms.com/artist_somoroff.html
Leo Villareal - www.villareal.net
Grau www.grau1001.de

design
Motion Graphic Design Association, MGLA www.mgla.org
http://www.eboy.com/   look at the archive
Emigre   www.emigre.com/
Durfee Regn Sandhaus http://www.drsstudio.com/
Geoff Kaplan http://www.generalworkinggroup.com/
modifyme http://www.modifyme.com/
open office architecture www.open-office.net/flash.html
nobodyhere http://www.nobodyhere.com/justme/nose.html  
s i n g l e c e l l  http://singlecell.org/
Tomato   http://www.tomato.co.uk
Razorfish  http://www.razorfish.com/
Art + Com  http://www.artcom.de/
Imaginary Forces   http://imaginaryforces.com/
Praystation  http://www.praystation.com/
Attik    www.attik.com/
Charles and Ray Eames  eamesoffice.com
Graft Architecture   graftlab.com
Manhattan Transfer     www.mte.com
Reverb Studio, Los Angeles   reverbstudio.com
Superbad   www.superbad.com
Elixer Studio  www.elixirstudio.com
Creative Planet  creativeplanet.com
The Remidi Project yugop.com
Presstube  presstube.com
yugop  yugop.com
www.triplecode.com
www.substanz.com
www.proce55ing.net Cool programming examples
www.etereastudios.com  


typography
http://www.fontexplorer.com/FontStore/629727256/UserTemplate/6
contemporary adobe designers:
http://www.adobe.com/type/typedesign/main.html
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/links.asp?type=design
http://www.emigre.com/fonts.html
http://www.typography.com
http://www.fontfont.de/designers/index.html
http://www.t26.com/changeyourface.htm
http://www.houseindustries.com/househome/
http://www.fontbureau.com/designers/
http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/
the dutch twins  http://www.letterror.com/
historical:
http://www.fonthaus.com/xheight/index.cfm
A type journal for the International Type Corporation, started by Herb Lubalin:
http://www.itcfonts.com/ulc/default.asp?sid=9ENQ15AKNX4W9N4GQ5WXVU6HCURL5Q06
Two very respected type/design conferences (too late for this year):
http://www.atypi.org/cph2001/index.html
http://voice.aiga.org/
The Clark Library (UCLA's own! off campus) has some of the most amazing
ancient and rare books in the reading world. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/


theory
The History of the Interface in Interactive Art - Soke Dinkla  http://www.uiah.fi/bookshop/isea_proc/nextgen/08.html
Knowbotic Research     http://io.khm.de/back-up/
Hypertext    http://landow.stg.brown.edu/cpace/ht/htov.html
Charles Babbage    http://www.ex.ac.uk/BABBAGE/welcome.html
Ada Lovelace     http://www.exeter.ac.uk/BABBAGE/ada.html


on-line journals
Lingo Users Journal (LUJ)
Art Commotion, the Los Angeles contemporary arts magazine
Christa Erikson, Coding Tricks
ebr Anne Burdick's Publication
disinformation webzine
Fluxus
Leonardo On-Line
Nettime.org
r a z o r f i s h, New York, New York
Rhizome
riotgrrl, webzine.
salon, webzine.
Paul Vanouse, The Persistant Data Confidante


science
Hubble Telescope Pictures
The Visible Human Project
Quantum Computing  http://www.qubit.org/  


human-computer interfaces
John Walker, Through the Looking Glass; Beyond "User Interfaces"
Vertical blanking interval
Jeremy Quinn,Future Sound of London on Line


digital narratives
Grahame Weinbren, The Digital Revolution is a Revolution of Random Access
Jay David Bolter, Digital Media and Cinematic Point of View
Group Z , I Confess


media centers
UCLA Department of Design|Media Arts     www.design.ucla.edu
Banff New media Institute      www.banffcentre.ab.ca/nmi
Cal-Arts Integrated Media    http://integr8.net/
MIT Media Lab    http://www.media.mit.edu/
Ars Electronica    http://www.aec.at/
Intercommunication Center    http://www.ntticc.or.jp/
The Centre For Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Art - CAiiA     http://caiia-star.newport.plymouth.ac.uk/