VISST 2000 - Introduction to Visual Studies

(crosslisted) AMST 2000, ARTH 2000, COML 2000
(LA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Requirement for Visual Studies minor.

A. Moisey.

This course will introduce you to the field of Visual Studies. Visual Studies seeks to define and improve our visual relationship to nature and culture after the modern surge in technology and knowledge. Our field contains objects, images, and problems that lie beyond the fine art boundaries of Art History and the methodological boundaries of experimental science, yet is grown using seeds from both academic cultures. If you see yourself as a “visual person” and want to explore your interests within both science and art, then this is the course for you. You will learn the physical and legal limits of human, animal, and machine vision, how knowledge and power gets into images, how spectacle drives the economy, and savvy techniques of analysis that will help you deliver fresh perspectives to whatever course of study you follow.