Overview

The matrix of the image and the rules of the course.

How the eye/brain system overcomes the limits of vision.

Negotiating the many levels of interaction we have with images.

How we make images make sense and what meaning means.

A structure for analysing our complex probing of images.

The slippery relationship of images to realism and reality.

How images draw us in through their visual tricks and illusions.

Understanding images on the level of pure visual impact.

Color, shape, balance, and other ways that pictures affect us.

The image as an object used for various reasons and needs.

How images are used to influence, convince, and coerce.

How outside information alters the meaning of pictures.

Images as part of the web of storytelling through which we know the world.

How technology shapes and defines the world of the image.

Summary of the course and final thoughts on the role of the image.