What is Visual Culture?
(Everything of a visual nature, i.e. most things)
We will be taught a critical framework with which to make sense of contemporary culture and forms.
We must keep in mind:
no one is neutral, our moral views are soley based upon the environments and scenarios we have encountered during our lives. These specific positions in which we occupy will also be studied, why is it that a female, white, middle class student such as myself has this moral compass?
"Our reactions are culturally constructed and constantly change depending on other factors"
Death of the author: What you mean may not be interpreted in the same way as it was meant to be, contexts of production and reception mean your intended meaning is often missed.
The course we are doing is a mostly Eurocentric account of visual culture, simply because of time restrictions in the course, media is a broad subject, it is not to suggest that european media is superior.
Not all authors and sources are trustworthy, one must take into account the backgrounds and motives of those producing texts.
Subject specific lectures on historical context of discipline
Address themes and issues that are cross disciplinary (e.g. creativity, ethics, identity)
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