Visual Culture
see also: Art History
Glenn Zucman
gzucman at csulb dot edu
http://art110.wikispaces.com/Instructor
Images that Think
A conversation on Photography & Consciousness in the age of Ubiquitous Computation / Computational Cameras
BarCampCSULB - Saturday, 18 Oct 08
Amazing new tools are changing our relationship to our visual culture and reframing human perception and consciousness. For example, even though photography has "lied" since the beginning, we have always felt that photography was an index of the true in a way that no other visual media (eg painting) ever was (hence the furor over "minor" photoshopping of OJ Simpson on Time magazine, etc)
Now as our ability to manipulate images, and to redo the photography after the fact grows, as well as the staggering increase in capture & display abilities and the number of images we're exposed to grows, what is the nature of our relationship to visual images? How do we experience them? How do we perceive ourselves within this vortex of images?
3 Million Years of Art History in 40 Minutes
BarCampLA5 - Saturday, 1 March 08
BarCampSD3 - Saturday, 3 May 08
details @ Art History
Strange Pixels:
The Life & Times of The Dot
Coming to BarCampLA6 / BarCampSD4
details @ Art History