Talking Circle - Theme 1: The Form of the Image // Theme 2: Image Work
University of San Jorge (Venue in the city centre): Calle San Voto, 6-8 50003 Zaragoza, Spain
Moderator
Sneha Mundari, Associate Faculty, Design Foundation Studies, National Institute of Design, Gujarat, India
Description
Theme 1: The Form of the Image
Examining the nature and form of the image as a medium of representation
- The mass media
- 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, gesture and object
- Moving images: cinema, television, video, animation
- Visual arts practices
- Photography
- The moving image
- Aspects of vision: viewpoint, perspective, interest
- Digital capture and manipulation of images
- Archiving the image
- Discovering the image: databases, social media, tagging, folksonomy, taxonomy
Theme 2: Image Work
Investigating image making processes and spaces of image representation
- The ‘new’: digital and social media
- Cinema, traditional and new
- Television, traditional and new
- Image on the internet
- 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
- Image libraries
