Week 1       Mar 26
Introduction to the Visual
Read Syllabus in Class
What is Visual Culture?
What is Visual Meaning?
New York Surveillance Camera Project Maps

Read and Summarize:
Mitchell, Reconfigured Eye Ch 1-2
Berger, Ways of Seeing Ch 1
Plato, The Cave

fun site: Many, many Monas

Photoshop Track:
Introduction, Palettes and Tools

Week 2       Mar 31, Apr 2
Theories of Seeing and Meaning
Signs, Symbols and Signifiers
An Introduction to Semiotics
Summaries from Week 1 reading due Apr 2

Reading:
Nagel, Thomas What is it like to be a Bat? The Philosophical Review, Vol. 83, No. 4. (Oct., 1974), pp. 435-450.
Descartes, Rene Optics
Mitchell, Reconfigured Eye Ch 6

Photoshop Track:
File formats, Saving, Scanning, Importing Pictures from Digital Cameras and other applications

Week 3       Apr 7, 9
Visual Truth
The Truth and Lies of Photography
How does an image communicate meaning?
Summaries from Week 2 reading due Apr 7

Reading:
Mitchell, Reconfigured Eye Ch 3
Barthes, Roland Rhetoric of the Image
Sontag, Susan In Plato's Cave
PBS's Image Lab from the exhibit "American Photography: A Century of Images". Look at "At the Edge" for the example discussed in class.

fun page: touristguy slideshow

Photoshop Track:
Pixels, Resolution, Making Selections

Week 4       Apr 14, 16
The Image in the Age of Digitization
Summaries from Week 3 reading due Apr 14

Reading:
Mitchell, Reconfigured Eye Ch 4-5
www.afterwalkerevans.com
www.aftersherrielevine.com

Photoshop Track:
Layers, Cut and Paste, Cloning, Distorting, Filtering

Week 5       Apr 21, 23
The Power of the Gaze
Summaries from Week 4 reading due Apr 21

Reading:
Foucault, Michel Panopticism
Seinfeld, episode 85 The Hamptons
Lacan, Jacques The Mirror Stage

Photoshop Track:
Painting, Gradients, Layer operations

Week 6       Apr 28, 30
The Gendered Gaze
Summaries from Week 5 reading due Apr 28

Reading:
Berger, John Ways of Seeing Ch 2-3
Balsamo, Anne On the Cutting Edge

Photoshop Track:
Path tools, Advanced Filters, Advanced layers

Week 7       May 5, 7
Midterm: Wed, May 7
Collage & Mise en Image
Summaries from Week 6 reading due May 5

Reading:
Mitchell, Reconfigured Eye Ch 8

Photoshop Track:
Sophisticated Image Compositing

Week 8       May 12, 14
Building Images and Bodies
Summaries from Week 7 reading due May 12

Reading:
Mitchell, Reconfigured Eye Ch 9

Photoshop Track:
Algorithmic Painting techniques

Week 9       May 19, 21
Looking Back, Recapitulation and Review
Summaries from Week 8 reading due May 19

Week 10       May 26, 28
Come Prepared to Work on Final Projects and
ready for Process Critiques

Finals       Wednesday, Jun 4
6-8:50 PM Wednesday, June 4
Attendance is Mandatory