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| Section | Subsection | Points | Examples |
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| Introduction | |||
| 1. Fall and Rise | relations of image and text Visual Language, Visual Literacy? |
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| 2.Issues | 2.1. holistic v. analytic | Clip Art | |
| 2.2 digital v. analog | |||
| 2.3 images v. propositions * | Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Natsuki Kimura | ||
| 2.4 code v. context | |||
| 2.5 naturalism v. abstraction | Shirin Kouladjie, clip art. Alex Shulgin | ||
| 2.6 documentary v. manipulation | |||
| 2.7 art v. nonart | |||
| 3. Mixed Modes | Robert Cumming | ||
| * Addendum: Clip Art | |||
| Section | Subsection | Points | Examples |
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| Introduction | equal/unequal footing | John Baldessari | |
| 1. Magritte | 1.1 Signification/representation/ resemblance | Magritte | |
| 1.2 Concept blobs | |||
| 1.3 Titles/captions/labels | |||
| 2. Stable Relations | 2.1 Titles/captions | Proper and random names | Shane Cooper |
| 2.2 Placards and Legends | placards as context | Hans Haacke, Jacqueline Hayden | |
| 2.3 Labels | diagram and label, canonical views |
Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Kim Beckmann | |
| 3. Appropriations | Lies and Truth | John Heartfield, Victor Burgin, Esther Parada, WIRED |
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| 4. Unstable Relations | 4.1 Martha Rosler | documentary v. experience representation of non-place |
Martha Rosler |
| 4.2 textmontage | blending of text and image | Stef Zelynskyj, Sandy Young, Kim Beckmann Diane Fenster, Ian Campbell, WIRED, Willie Doherty, Eduardo Navas |
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| 5. Word-Image Chains | equivalence as links | Joseph Squier, Carol Flax, Carmin Karasic Liz Miller, Shelly Jackson |
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| Section | Subsection | Points | Examples |
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| Introduction | Photomontage/Photocollage blending 2 co-present worlds Why hard to see? Explosion with Photoshop |
Duane Michals | |
| 1. Reflections | "natural photomontage" display windows impossible worlds |
Eugene Atget, Barbara Morgan, Clarence John Laughlin, Mac Adams | |
| 2. Form | 2.1 edges and gradients * | contours, outlines variable masks inversion of image |
Man Ray, Calum Colvin, O. J. Rejlander, Coryndon Luxmoore, Clarence Laughlin, Catherine McIntyre |
| 2.2 horizon and perspective ** | orientation, multiples | Barbara Morgan, Van Telberg, Clarence Laughlin | |
| 2.3 superposition of layers | sources of difficulty | Burke Uzzle, Esther Neimanas | |
| 3. Interpretation | 3.1 reduced opacity - ->subjectivity | Duane Michals, Edmund Teske, Diane Fenster | |
| 3.2 outline - ->identity | Grahame Weinbren,El Lissitsky, Alice Lev-Neringer Jerry Uelsmann, Barbara Morgan, Diane Fenster |
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| 3.3 perspective - -> world | Van Telberg | ||
| 3.4 stacks of layers- -> historical sequence | Geoff Broadway, Richard Ramsdell, Esther Parada, Annette Pugh Nancy Goldring |
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| 4. Faux Photomontage | projections painted in space | Calum Colvin | |
| 5. Photo Illustration | photoshopmontage; illustration, analysis |
Hoang, Fairman, McIntyre, Fenster |
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| * Addenda | Solarization and Inversion Canonical Perspective Magritte Discovers Gradient Masks |
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| ** Addendum : Perspective Workshop | |||
| Section | Subsection | Points | Examples |
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| Introduction | collage/montage | Alex. Rodchenko, Bernie Stephanus, Georges Braque | |
| 1. Structures | scale of work main patterns emblem books |
Hannah Hoch, Cory Eiseman, Laurence Gartel, Robin Street, Natsuke Kimura, Gary Worzel, Shirin Kouladjie, Pierre Robin, Hans Goede, Kinga Britschgi | |
| 2.Edges: Displacements and Grafts | photomosaic, grafts, degrees of semanticity |
David Hockney, Bernie Stephanus, Shirin Kouladjie | |
| 3. Visual Form and Semantic Content | 3.1 newspapers | Hans Haacke, Adrienne Wortzel | |
| 3.2 advertisement images | Pierre Robin | ||
| 3.3 famous canvases | Pat Street, Bernie Stephanus, Shirin Kouladjie | ||
| 3.4 Abstract Collage? | Cyril Touchon, Cheryl McClure | ||
| 4. Animated, Interactive, Multimedia, & Randomized Collage |
small moving parts Flash: sound, animation rollovers rearrangeable collage random and dynamic collage |
Ian Campbell, Shirin Kouladjie, Martha Rosler Friederike Paetzold, Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, Dirk Hine |
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| Section | Subsection | Points | Examples |
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| Introduction | Viewing as theme figure looks at the viewer: "appeal" absorption |
Thomas Struth (Seurat) | |
| 1. Viewing viewing | 1.1 scale of guilty looking | Chim, Natalie Bookchin, Victor Burgin | |
| 1.2 Absorption/recognition | Eduoard Manet, Jeff Wall, Jan Saudek, Gerd Ludwig | ||
| 2.Including the shooter | 2.1 Self-Portrait with Wife June and Models | Helmut Newton | |
| 2.2 Picture for Women | Jeff Wall | ||
| 2.3 Agfa Advert | |||
| 3. Seeking to See | 3.1 Cyberbabes | Lisa Hutton | |
| 3.2 Cyberbride | Teo Spiller | ||
| 3.3 Voyeur Viewer | |||
| 3.4 easylife/XXX | Alexei Shulgin | ||
| Conclusion | |||
| Section | Subsection | Points | Examples |
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| Introduction | Gallery-museum as context high v. popular culture |
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| 1 museum.art | aesthetic framing | Gustave Courbet | |
| 1.1 noticing, appropriation, and critique | Richard Prince | ||
| 1.2 art.history | Barry Kite, Yasumasa Morimura, Joel-Peter Witkin, Kim Stringfellow, Graham Harwood | ||
| 2 net.art * | 2.1 Brandon | Shu Lea Cheang | |
| 2.2 Zombie Princess | "Francesca da Rimini" | ||
| 2.3 www.absurd.org | |||
| 3. Images in net.art.satire | 3.1 Innocence exposed | The Onion | |
| 3.2 Intensification of the banal | The Onion | ||
| 3.3 Brochures exposed | chickenhead, thecomedylab | ||
| 3.4 50s' cheerful smiles exposed | chickenhead | ||
| 3.5 glossing over the horrors | Landover Baptist | ||
| Conclusion | Harlan Wallach | ||
| Appendix: Contexts and Web Humor: The Case of Religion Sites | |||
| Section | Subsection | Points | Examples |
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| Introduction | Data Structures Nodes,edges, paths cyclic/acyclic, directed topological/topographic |
Harry Beck | |
| 1. Semantic Space | 1.1 WordNet | George A. Miller et al. | |
| 1.2 Visual Thesaurus | Mark Tinkler | ||
| 1.3 Apartment | Marek Walzak and Martin Wattenberg | ||
| 2.Modelling File Systems | 2.1 Tree Directories | Ztree, file and folder, TreeMapper | |
| 2.2 Semi-Excursus on Trees | Language Trees, Descent Trees | ||
| 2.3 3D maps of file systems | xandi, Yusuke Shinyama, Leander Seige, Ramanathan V. Guha, Mary Flanagan | ||
| 3 Hypertext | 3.1 Hypertext as rhizome | A Thousand Plateaus | |
| 3.2 Hypertext as collage | |||
| 3.3 Hypertext as cinematic montage | Walter Benjamin Giles Peaker |
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| 4 Web Sites | 4.1 Machine-made Webs: nodes and edges | (Hypertext Gardens), Merzscope, Mapuccino, Astra, Nestor | |
| 4.2 Hand-made Webs | Vera Frenkel, Udi Aloni | ||
| 4.3 Web site as Life form | Ben Fry | ||
| Conclusion: Map or Territory | Lisa Jevbratt | ||