Visual futures : exploring the past, present, and divergent possibilities of visual practice / edited by Tracey Bowen and Brett Caraway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowen, Tracey, editor.

Caraway, Brett, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual perception--Social aspects.

Visual perception.

Visual sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect, [2021]

Summary:

This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary examination of how we visualize and use visuals to make meaning within our environment. A diverse range of international contributions and perspectives from biology, film, virtual reality, urban graffiti, architecture, critical pedagogy and education. 31 b&w photographs.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

frontispiece

Visual Futures: Exploring the Past, Present, and Divergent Possibilities of Visual Practice

Copyright Page

Table of contents

List of Figures

1 See and See Again: Mapping the Fractures in Visual Culture

References

2 In Between Whiteness: Pierre Bourdieu and Rudolph Valentino, An Unlikely Pairing

Social and historical context

Race as power

Capital culture and power as symbolic violence

Bourdieu and practice

Film as a cultural lens in early twentieth-century America

Conclusion

3 Ink to Inkling: Artful Messages in the Visuals of Biology

Introduction

Discourse analysis of biological visuals

Making sense of visuals: Theoretical framework

Methodology

Sample

Analysis

Results

Analysis of shapes

Analysis of colors

Discussion

Acknowledgments

Note

4 Visualizing Gentrification: Resistance and Reclamation Through the Writing on the Walls

Conscientização: Provoking a pedagogy from the street

The subversive "creative cities" effect

A pedagogy of resistance: Clarion Alley Mural Project

A sacred space of cultural reclamation: Chicano Park

The visuality of spatial reclamation

Notes

5 Intentional Viewing: Decoding, Learning, and Creating Culturally Relevant Architecture

Critiques of architecture

Digital Native

Mind's eye envisioning

Technology

Importance of culture

6 Visualizing Art-Science Entanglements for more Habitable Futures

Storytelling, becoming-with, entanglements, and symbiosis

Creative process

Stories

360° Video

Digital worlding

Soundscapes

Exhibition results

References.

7 Seeing, Sensing, and Surrendering the Inside: Expressions of the Adolescent Self in a "Structured Illustrative Disclosure"

Introduction: The rationale of sensing to seeing

Summary of research literature: Issues and ideals in the field

Case study design

Compartmentalization of current self

Dissociation of an authentic self

Revelation of a transcendent self

8 Picturing the State of Visual Literacy Initiatives Today

Understanding the state of visual literacy in the twenty-first century

The importance of visual literacy in the twenty-first century

Recommendations for visual literacy initiatives in the twenty-first century

Visual literacy initiatives in the twenty-first century

Best practices for visual literacy initiatives

Current visual literacy and visual literacy related initiatives

Visual literacy frameworks and standards

Association of College and Research Libraries Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (Visual Literacy Standards)

Common European Framework of Reference for Visual Literacy

Learning Framework: The Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York, USA

The Art of Seeing Art™: Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, USA

Visual literacy initiatives in higher education

Center for Digital and Visual Literacy: Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, USA

Center for Visual Literacies: San Diego State University in San Diego, California, USA

Project Vis: Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA

Teach Visual: DePauw College in Greencastle, Indiana, USA

Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, USA

and the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, USA

Visual Literacy InFUSION Project: Lesley University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

The Visual Literacy Toolbox: Learning to Read Images: University of Maryland College Park in College Park, Maryland, USA

Related visual literacy higher education initiatives

Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities: University of Michigan in partnership with over 40 other institutions

How Do You Look?: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA

Project Zero: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Visual literacy museum + education initiatives

Advanced Placement classroom visual literacy video series: The Georgia Department of Education, the High Museum of Art, and Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Recommended reads for visual literacy: visualliteracytoday.org

RETINA (RE-thinking Technical Interventions to Advance visual literacy of young people in art museums) Research Project-the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in conjunction with the following museums: M Museum in Leuven, Belgium

Ludwig Forum in Aachen, Ge

Toledo Museum of Art and the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, USA

Seeing the Whole PICTURE™: Center for Visual Expertise

Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)

Visual literacy organizations and task forces

ACRL Visual Literacy Task Force

European Network for Visual Literacy

International Visual Literacy Association

Related visual literacy organizations

Association for Education Communications and Technology

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication: Visual Communication Division

Association for Visual Pedagogies

College Art Association

EDUCAUSE

Graphic Communications Education Association

International Association for Visual Culture

International Communication Association: Visual Communication Studies Division

International Society for Education through Art.

National Art Education Association

International Visual Sociology Association

Society for Photographic Education

Visual Resources Association

Afterword: To Visualize the Future Is Political Work

What is the role of visuality and visual praxis in the work of world-building?

How do material matters of access and justice shape possibilities for visualizing the future?

How can we learn other ways of seeing and visualizing?

Notes on Contributors

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781789384482

1789384486

9781789384475

1789384478