Fall 2007

NMEA20H Introduction to New Media in the Humanities and Social Sciences

New Media and Visual Culture

Instructor
Leslie Chan
Room B570
chan@utsc.utoronto.ca

Teaching Assistant
Stephen Tracy


 

What is "visual culture" and what impact do digital and imaging technologies have on contemporary culture of images? What are the interactions between traditional forms of visual representation and new technological possibilities? In particular, how do "digitality" and "virtuality" redefine the relationships between creators and consumers of new visual objects? Are "new ways of seeing" emerging with the techological capacities of new media? What new social, institutional, and aesthetic practices are emerging?

Readings
Urban Screens: the beginning of a universal visual culture by Paul Martin Lester
First Monday, Special Issue #4: Urban Screens: Discovering the potential of outdoor screens for urban society (February 2006),
http://firstmonday.org/issues/special11_2/lester/index.html

Optional Readings
Andy Warhol's Iconophilia by William V. Ganis (2000). Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Studies, Issue 3.

Links
Notes on the "Gaze" by Daniel Chandler, read in particular the comment on John Berger's Ways of Seeing.

 

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