Course Description & Aims
We live in a world of images. Images render information visually in order for us to communicate. We negotiate our identity through images. Images help us to symbolize meaning but also to exert control. Fashion, art, the visual and software industries have turned our culture into a visual one. The new technologies of the visual demand a new form of literacy. Visual literacy emerges to be an essential competence in the post-industrial society of the information age.
Visual Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of images where scholars and teachers of different disciplines become interdependent. This course will explore the past, present and future of “Visual Culture”—its history, its defining features, and what form of literacy it may require. The course will discuss how new media culture affects art history, popular culture, and education. In addition to engaging in discussions and actively working with the Internet, we will make visual culture field trips to select Chelsea art galleries and even a Cell Biology lab.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Introduction to Visual Studies
Introduction to Visual Studies
Visual Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of images where scholars and teachers of different disciplines become interdependent. This course will explore the past, present and future of “Visual Culture”—its history, its defining features, and what form of literacy it may require. The course will discuss implications of the new media culture for art history, popular culture and education. Both theoretical and practical applications of visual studies will be offered.
Visual Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of images where scholars and teachers of different disciplines become interdependent. This course will explore the past, present and future of “Visual Culture”—its history, its defining features, and what form of literacy it may require. The course will discuss implications of the new media culture for art history, popular culture and education. Both theoretical and practical applications of visual studies will be offered.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
bloggin with jochum
I am a student in the Ed.M. Art and Art Education Program at Columbia University's Teachers College. I am interested in exploring visual culture and imagery through signs and signifiers. I am especially interested in photography because of its representation paradox--how what seems to be is not, and what is, is not necessarily there. With that element already part of the medium, it further allows one to explore their interest, which for me, is the everyday. I wanted especially to take this class to introduce me to newer technologies and ways of seeing digitally, since my interest has been quite in-depth in printing and the publishing world.
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