Annotated Multimedia Bibliography

Ben Davis

Arnheim, R. Visual Thinking. Berkeley, CA.: University of California Press, 1969. The classic text on visual cognition in the arts.

Barlow, H. Images and Understanding. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990. A collection of essays by writers, artists, pyschologists on image and thought.

Barnouw, E. Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1975; (rev. ed. 1982). The best history of the invention of television from a technical and social perspective.

Barthes, R. Image-Music-Text. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. Roland Barthe's lyrical semiotic text on the connections between hearing, seeing, and reading.

Bruner, J. S, Actual Minds, Possible Worlds, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986. A collection of Bruner's essays on language, reality, and constructed worlds.

Bruner, J. S. The Process of Education. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1977. Bruner examines education from the perspective of the motivated learner.

Champine, G. MIT Project Athena: A Model for Distributed Campus Computing. Digital Equipment Press, 1991. The DEC director of MIT's Project Athena presents the technical and conceptual development of the largest educational computing project ever attempted.

Donis A. Dondis, A Primer of Visual Literacy. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1973. The most concise text on pattern recognition, image understanding, and vision.

Ferguson, E.S. Engineering and the Mind's Eye. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. An understanding of the engineer that creates rather than implements.

Gregory, I.L. Eye and Brain. New York: World University Library, 1966. The classic text on biological and perceptual mechanics.

Hamming, R. W. Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers. New York: McGraw Hill, 1962. Computers are for insight, not numbers.

Ivins,W. Prints and Visual Comunication, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. The invention of the press and its effect on the mechanical reproduction of images.

Klee,P. "Pedagogical Sketchbook".

Kosslyn, S. M. and Christopher Chabris, "Naming Pictures", Journal of Visual Languages and Computing}, Volume 1, Number 1, 1990. Experiments in language and perception.

Kosslyn, S. M. Image and Mind. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1980. The psychology of perception.

Laurel, B. (Ed.) The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design. Addison Wesley, 1990.

Mander, J. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. New York: William Morrow, 1978. The controversial book on getting rid of television for social and technical reasons.

Malraux, A. The Voices of Silence. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978. The possibilities of museums without walls.

McArthur, T. Worlds of Reference. New York: McGraw Hill, 1988. The exploration of the history of the place of reference and the object of reference.

McLuhan, M. Understanding Media. New York: McGraw Hill, 1965. The medium is the message, required.

Michon, B. "Highly Iconic Interfaces, in Multimedia Interface Design, ed. by Meera M. Blattner and Roger B. Dannenberg, pp 357-372, ACM Press, New York, New York, 1992. Describes the work of the Visual Computing Group at Project Athena.

Moholy-Nagy, "Vision and Motion".

Monaco, J. How to Read a Film. Oxford University Press, 1977. A basic book on the semiotics of film written like a "how to" book.

Mindstorm: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. N.Y.: Basic Books, 1980. Papert's view of children learning by doing with computers.

Pelfrey, R. and M.H.Hall. Art and Mass Media, New York: Harper and Row, 1985. A survey of art influenced and producted by the media.

Pinker, S. P. (Ed.) Visual Cognition. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1984. A collection of essays on visual routines, recognition, and neurological image data.

Ridpath, I. Star Tales. New York: Universe Books, 1988. A book about the history of the constellations, visual narrative, and story maps.

Rivlin, R. The Algorithmic Image. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 1986. A history of computer graphics and the wonders of computer dimensions.

Sacks, O. Seeing Voices, A Journey Into the World of the Deaf, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989. The leap from sensation to thought.

Shafer, R.M. The Tuning of the World, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1980. The acoustic environment including music, ambient sound, acoustic engineering, and the art of noise.

Sontag, S. On Photography. Farrar, Straus & Girous, 1973. Photography as a social technology.

Thomas, F. and Johnson, O. Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life.

Tufte, E. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Cheshire, Conn: Graphics Press, 1983. How data becomes an image.

Tufte, E. Envisioning Information, Cheshire, Conn: Graphics Press, 1990. How the resolution of the image effect multivariant information.

Wilford, J.N. The MapMakers. New York: Vintage Books, 1982. The history of spatial representation and the invention of the destination.

Yates, F. The Art of Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966. The history of the memory theater.