Visual Literacy and "Keywords"
Every day we process countless images – from YouTube to the Nike swoosh, news videos to political cartoons. But how much time do we spend thinking about what’s behind them?
University of North Texas College of Visual Arts & Design is partnering with Art&Seek to start a conversation on thinking critically about the images we see, create and manipulate.
On June 6 and 7, the College and the Department of Design hosted an academic conference in Dallas on critical thinking in a visual age. Keywords, a show of artists working in Web technology and electronic media, is running concurrently with the conference.
Each day during the week of June 2, Art&Seek posted:
- A work and biography of one of the artists in the Keywords exhibit, written by Paho Mann, asst. professor of photography at UNT.
- A question about visual literacy that UNT associate professor Michael Gibson and assistant professor Keith Owens, who both teach Communications Design, addressed.
Here, Owens and Gibson discuss the topic on KERA’s Think.
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Click on the links & pictures below to learn more about the artists from "Keywords," and about visual literacy.
"Keywords": Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
Caution: "We Feel Fine" is an ever-expanding work of art that uses a computer program to draw thousands of words and images a day from blogs around the world. Though rare, it is possible to encounter images and text that may be disturbing to you or unsuitable for children.
Click on the links below to learn more about Visual Literary.
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