Themes

Theme 1: The Form of the Image

  • The grammar of the visual.
  • The image as text.
  • The Image as Art.
  • Image techniques.
  • The cognitive science of perception.
  • Visualization.
  • Technologies and techniques of representation.
  • Multimodality: image in relation to language, space etc.
  • Moving images: cinema, television, video, animation.

Theme 2: The Image in Context

  • The image in media and communications.
  • The image as commercial artifact.
  • The image in architecture.
  • The image as information.
  • The image as propaganda.
  • The past, present and future of the image.
  • The role of the viewer.

Theme 3: Technology and Media in the Service of the Image

  • Visual arts practices.
  • Photography.
  • The moving image.
  • Aspects of vision: viewpoint, perspective, interest.
  • Digital capture and manipulation of images.
  • Security and surveillance.
  • Discovering the image: databases, social media, tagging, folksonomy, taxonomy.

Theme 4: Learning Images

  • Learning to represent in images.
  • Images in the service of learning.
  • Reading and interpreting images.

Theme 5: The Image Industry

  • The mass media.
  • The ‘new’, digital and social media.
  • Cinema, traditional and new.
  • Television, traditional and new.
  • Corporations in the image business.
  • Selling the image.
  • The amateur artist or photographer.
  • Branding, logos and advertising.
  • Artist or image-maker as professional.
  • Commercial galleries and art dealers.
  • The arts community.
  • Digital image libraries.