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.
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