Nita's Class Resources

Sturiale Course Bibliography

Art and Science

Ackerman, Diane, A Natural History of the Senses, Random House, 1990.

Askansas, Malgosia, "Ballet Scientifique: Research-based performance in Boston", P-Form, Fall 1996, pg. 30 —32.

Angiers, Natalie, Woman: An Intimate Geography, Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Beardsley, Tim, "Eye in the Sky", Scientific American, 6/1998, pg. 37.

Bernstein, Robert S. Root, "For the Sake of Science, The Arts Deserve Support", The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 11, 1997, pg. B6.

Dawkins, Richard, "Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder", Skeptical Inquirer, 3-4/1998, pg. 28-30 + 58.

Denes, Agnes, Book of Dust, Visual Studies Workshop, 1989.

Dennett, D.C., Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Hersey, George, The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots, MIT Press, 1999.

Frankel, Felice and Whitesides, George M., On the Surface of Things, Chronicle Books, 19997.

Galilei, Galileo, Sidereus Nuncius (Astronomical Message), Helden translation, 1989, pg. 35-36

Joyce, James, "What did Bloom do at the range?", Ulysses, pg. 548-49.

Lambert, Craig, "The Stirring of Sleeping Beauty", Harvard Magazine, September - October 1999 Volume 101. Number 1. pg. 46.

Land, Edwin, Excerpt from speech at the Groundbreaking of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA 4/2/1979.

Lawrence & Locke, "A Man for Our Season", Nature, Vol. 386 4/24/1997.

Loke, Margarett, "The Universe Catches up as Art", New York Times, 4/29/1998, B1

Mitchell, William J., The Reconfigured Eye, MIT Press, 1992.

Nadis, Steve, "Genetic art builds cryptic bridge between two cultures", Nature, Vol 378, November 1995.

Panek, Richard, "Art and Science: A Universe Apart?", New York Times, February 14, 1999.

Peterson, Ivars, "The Art of Scientific Photography", Science News, December 20 —27, 1997, pg. 394 — 396.

Raymo, Chet, "Let The Poets and Artists Teach Us What Science Can’t" Science Musings, The Boston Globe, 5/17/1993.

Stafford, Barbara Maria, Artful Science, MIT Press, 1994.

Tufte, Edward R., Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, 1990.

Svitil, Kathy A., "A Touch of Science", Discover, 6/1998, pg.81.

Waldrop, M. Mitchell, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Wilson, E.O., Biophilia, Harvard University Press, 1984.

Wilson, E.O., Consilience, Knopf, 1998.

Art and Technology

Brook, James and Boal, Iain A., Resisting the Virtual Life, City Lights, 1995.

Johnson, Steven, Interface Culture, Harper, 1997.

Kress, Gunther and van Leeuwen, Theo, Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design, Routledge, 1996.

Mitchell, William J., The Reconfigured Eye, MIT Press, 1992.

Mullet, Kevin and Sano, Darrel, Designing Visual Interfaces, Communication Oriented Techniques, Sunsoft Press, A Prentice Hall Title, 1995.

Norman, Donald, The Invisible Computer, MIT Press, 1998.

Pearce, Celia, The Interactive Book, Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1997.

Tufte, Edward, Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, 1990.

DiNucci, Darcy, and Guidice, Maria, Elements of Web Design, 2nd Edition, PeachPit Press 1998.

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For general, easy to understand introductions to multi-media software, try any of the Visual QuickStart Guides published by PeachPit Press.

For wonderful explanations of web design and web tech issues, try any books by Lynda Weinman.