I am equally affected by literary works as I am other arts, and I regularly read to remain informed by the viewpoints of others, whether it be criticism or imagination. This page contains a selection of literary works that have significantly influenced and shaped my awareness and intellect, arranged by the following categories:

• arts & design
• biography, culture & spirituality
• communication & media studies
• computing & human-computer interaction
• education
• poetry & prose

arts & design [back to top]

Blackwell, Lewis, and David Carson. The End of Print: The graphic design of David Carson, with an introduction by David Byrne. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.

Boime, Albert. The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.

Bolton, Richard. "The Modern Spectator and the Postmodern Participant," from Photo Communique, Summer 1986, pp. 34-45.

Burke, Peter. The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy, Second Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Corrin, Lisa J. "Installing History," from Atlanta Art Papers, Vol. 18, No. 4, July/August 1994, pp. 6-14.

Demos, T.J. "Fred Wilson: Metro Pictures Review", from New Art Examiner, Vol. 23, No. 7, March 1996.

Esten, John. John Singer Sargent: the male nudes, with a preface by Donna Hassler. New York: Universe, 1999.

Hofstadter, Albert, and Richard Kuhns, editors. Philosophies of Art & Beauty: Selected readings in aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

Hogarth, Burne. Dynamic Anatomy. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1958.

Lippard, Lucy R. Mixed Blessings: New art in a multicultural America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.

Mayor, A. Hyatt. Prints and People: A social history of printed pictures. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.

McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1993.

McElroy, Guy C. Facing History: The Black image in American Art 1710-1940. San Francisco and Washington: Bedford Arts Publishers and The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1990.

McLaughlin, Margaret L. "The Art Site on the World Wide Web", from the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 1, No. 4, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, 1994.

Peck, Stephen Rogers. Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1951.

Reiss, Jonathan B. The Renaissance Antichrist: Luca Signorelli's Orvieto frescoes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Silver, Kenneth. "Museums: past imperfect," from Art in America, January 1993, pp. 42-47.

Spiekermann, Erik and E.M. Ginger. Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works. Mountain View, CA: Adobe Press, 1993.

Stein, Judith E. "Sins of Omission," from Art in America, October 1993, pp. 110-115.

Stoddard, Ann B. "Redecorating the White House," from New Art Examiner, Vol. 20, No. 5, January 1993, pp. 16-20.

Wilson, Fred and Martha Bushkirk. Fred Wilson Interview, from October, No. 70, MIT Press: Fall 1994, pp. 109-112.

biography, culture & spirituality [back to top]

Baldwin, James. The Price of the Ticket: Collected nonfiction 1948-1985. New York: St. Martin's / Marek, 1985.

Bok, Sissela. Secrets: on the ethics of concealment and revelation. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.

Brockman, John. The Third Culture: beyond the scientific revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Browning, Frank. The Culture of Desire: Paradox and perversity in gay lives today. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.

Bull, George. Michelangelo: a biography. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1995.

hooks, bell. Ain't I a Woman: Black women and feminism. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1981.

_____________. Black Looks: Race and representation. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1992.

de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1984.

Decter, Joshua. "Allegories of Cultural Criticism: re-framing the present," from Flash Art, Vol. XXVI, No. 170, May/June 1993, pp. 118-119; 128.

Geertz, Clifford. "Thick Description: Toward an interpretive theory of culture," from Contemporary Field Research. Robert Emerson, editor, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1983.

George, Nelson. Buppies, B-Boys, BAPs & BOHOs: Notes on post-soul Black culture. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.

Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1981.

Mason, Jim. An Unnatural Order: Uncovering the roots of our domination of nature and each other. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Mercer, Kobena. Welcome to the Jungle: New positions in Black cultural studies. New York & London: Routledge, 1994.

Midgley, Mary. Animals and Why They Matter. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1983.

Project on Disney, The. Inside the Mouse: Work and play at Disney World. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995.

Pronger, Brian. The Arena of Masculinity: Sports, homosexuality and the meaning of sex. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Rifkin, Jeremy. Algeny. In collaboration with Nicanor Perlas. New York: The Viking Press, 1983.

_____________. Beyond Beef: The rise and fall of the cattle culture. New York: Dutton / Penguin Books, 1992.

_____________. Biosphere Politics: A cultural odyssey from the Middle Ages to the New Age. New York: Crown Publishers, 1991.

_____________. The Biotech Century: harnessing the gene and remaking the world. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam (Putnam Penguin Inc.), 1998.

_____________. Time Wars: The primary conflict in human history. New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 1989.

Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.

Wilbur, Ken. A Brief History of Everything. Boston & London: Shambala, 1996.

communication & media studies [back to top]

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," originally published in Illuminations, translated by Harry Zohn, New York: Schocken Books, 1969.

Carey, James. Communication as Culture: essays on media and society. Boston: Unwin/Hyman, 1989.

Foucault, Michel. This is Not a Pipe. With illustrations and letters by RenéMagritte. Translated and edited by James Harkness. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983.

_____________. "What is an Author?", from The Foucault Reader, New York: Pantheon Books, 1984, pp. 101-120.

Hall, Stuart and John O'Hara. "The Narrative Construction of Reality: an interview with Stuart Hall," from Meridian: the La Trobe University English Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, October 1983.

Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology and other essays. Translated and with an introduction by William Lovitt. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1977.

Kellner, Douglas. Media Culture: Cultural studies, identity and politics between the modern and the postmodern. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Kipnis, Laura. Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the politics of fantasy in America. New York: Grove Press, 1996.

Lorimer, Rowland with Paddy Scannell. Mass Communications: a comparative introduction. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994.

McLuhan, Marshall. The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of industrial man. Boston: Beacon Press, 1951.

_____________. Understanding Media: the extensions of man. Cambridge, MA and London, England: The MIT Press, 1994.

Minsky, Marvin. The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.

Murray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck: the future of narrative in cyberspace. New York: The Free Press, 1997.

Nichols, Bill. "The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems," from Screen 29, 4, Winter 1988, pp. 22-46.

Slack, Jennifer Daryl. "Contextualizing Technology," from Rethinking Communication, Vol. 2, Paradigm Exemplars, Edited by Brenda Dervin, Lawrence Grossberg, and Ellen Wartella. Sage Publishers, 1989.

Turner, Graeme. "Texts and Contexts," from British Cultural Studies: An introduction. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.

Walkerdine, Valerie. "Video Replays," from The Media Reader, Manuel Alvarado and John O. Thompson, editors. London: British Film Institute, 1990.

Warner, Michael. "The Public Sphere and the Cultural Mediation of Print," in William S. Solomon and Robert W. McChesney, editors, Ruthless Criticism: New perspectives in U.S. communication history. University of Minnesota Press, 1989.

computing & human-computer interaction [back to top]

Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992.

Bruckman, Amy. Cyberspace is not Disneyland: The role of the artist in a networked world. "Cyberspace / PublicSpace" Project Website, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and the Getty Information Institute.

_____________. Finding One's Own Space in Cyberspace. Technology Review, January 1996, pp. 48-54.

Ericsson, Mikael. Human-Computer Interaction Resources on the Net. A collection of information related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), including resource collections, information about methods and processes, educational program, and tools.

Hom, James. The Usability Methods Toolbox. A compilation of information about almost all of the methods and techniques (well, ok, a lot of them) used in usability evaluation. Very useful!

Instone, Keith. Usable Web. A guide to resources about Web usability, intended as a guide to "identify, describe, and evaluate Internet-based information resources". Mr. Instone is a Web usability consultant and information architect at Argus Associates.

Lopuck, Lisa. Designing Multimedia: A visual guide to multimedia and online graphic design. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 1996.

Markus, M. Lynne, and Mark Keil. "If We Build It, They Will Come: Designing information systems that people want to use," from Sloan Management Review. Summer 1994, pages 11-25.

Peter Merholz, Peter. peterme.com is Peter Merholz's discussion-based site on the business value of user experience. Before joining Adaptive Path, Peter Merholz served as Creative Director at Epinions.com, where his team developed a best-of-breed information resource and community site. Peter has also worked with Walmart.com, Studio Archetype, Organic, iXL, and Voyager, ensuring the incorporation of user-centered design principles that meet business needs. Peter's published articles include features for Internet World and Webmonkey, and he has spoken and served on the board of Web design and information architecture conferences.

Perlman, Gary. HCI Bibliography: Human-Computer Interaction Resources. The HCI Bibliography is a free-access online bibliographic database on Human-Computer Interaction. The basic goal of the Project is to put an electronic bibliography for most of HCI on the screens of all researchers, developers, educators and students in the field through the World-Wide Web and anonymous ftp access.

Winograd, Terry, Editor. Bringing Design to Software. With John Bennett, Laura de Young, and Bradley Hartfield. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press, 1996.

Wodtke, Christina. eleganthack.com is a one-person website devoted to exploring and furthering the emerging art of user experience design and information architecture on the web. This site includes some links to organizations and some great articles on information architecture.

Zuboff, Shoshanna. In the Age of the Smart Machine: The future of work and power. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1989.

education [back to top]

Brown, Ann L. "Design Experiments: Theoretical and methodological challenges in creating complex interventions in classroom settings," from The Journal of the Learning Sciences. Volume 2, Number 2, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1992, pages 141-178.

Brown, John Seely, and Paul Daguid. "Borderline Issues: Social and material aspects of design," from Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 9, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994, pages 3-36.

Chalmers, Graeme. "Celebrating Pluralism: Multicultural Approaches to Art Learning: broad themes for studying art in a culturally diverse society." Excerpted from Celebrating Pluralism. Getty Education Institute for the Arts, ArtsEdNet.

Collins, Allan, John Seely Brown, and Susan E. Newman. "Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching the crafts of reading, writing, and mathematics," from Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: Essays in honor of Robert Glaser. L.B. Resnick, Editor, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989, pages 453-494.

Fowler, Charles. "Strong Arts, Strong Schools," from the ArtsEdNet Website, originally appeared in Educational Leadership, November 1994.

Getty Education Institute for the Arts. Publications Catalog, ArtsEdNet Website.

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean, editor. The Educational Role of the Museum. Part of the Leicester Readers in Museum Studies, London and New York: Routledge, 1994.

Kolodner, Janet and Mark Guzdial. "Effects With and of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL): Tracking Learning in a New Paradigm." Publisher Unknown, c1996.

Koschmann, Timothy, editor. CSCL: Theory and Practice of an Emerging Paradigm (Computers, Cognition, and Work). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.

Kozma, Robert B. "Learning with Media," from the Review of Educational Research. Volume 61, Number 2, Summer 1991, pages 179-211.

Papert, Seymour. "Situating Constructionism," from Constructionism. Idit Harel and Seymour Papert (Editors), Ablex Publishing Corporation, December 1991, pages 1-11.

Reeves, Dr. Tom. "Evaluating What Really Matters in Computer-Based Education," Athens, GA: University of Georgia, Publication Date Unknown.

Sachs, Patricia. "Transforming Work: Collaboration, learning, and design," from Communications of the ACM. Volume 38, Number 9, September 1995.

poetry & prose [back to top]

Buonarroti, Michelangelo. The Poetry of Michelangelo. An annotated translation by James M. Saslow. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Cullen, Countee. My Soul's High Song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Edited and with an introduction by Gerald Early. New York: Anchor Books, 1991.

Cummings, E.E. Complete Poems, 1904-1962. Revised, corrected, and expanded edition containing all the published poetry. Edited by George J. Firmage. New York: Liveright, 1991. Rimbaud, Arthur. A Season in Hell & Illuminations. Translated by Bertrand Mathieu. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, Ltd., 1991.

Rumi, Jelaluddin. The Illuminated Rumi. Translated by Coleman Barks with illuminations by Michael Green. New York: Broadway Books, 1997.

Verlaine, Paul. Selected Poems. Translated by C.F. MacIntyre. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1948.