ARTH218

Images in circulation: Print, photography, and pixels

15 points

Not offered 2024, offered in 2019, 2020, 2022

For further information see Humanities

Description

This course focuses on how images communicate, and examines the contexts, exchanges, and transformations that shape their meanings. While visual sources are a ubiquitous part of the information economy, their specific properties enable them to work on audiences in ways that differ from written and spoken accounts. The course explores a range of approaches for thinking about images, what they can and can't do, and the spaces in which they circulate, being made and remade in the process. In particular, this course is concerned with the entanglements of media and meaning, and the how the changing technologies of image-making engender shifting conceptualisations of how visual sources and reality relate.

Prerequisites

15 pts ARTH at 100-level, or
60 points at 100-level. RP: ARTH112; ARTH103; ARTH111

Recommended Preparation