{"id":84,"date":"2015-01-15T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imagesarttechpower\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2017-01-13T06:52:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T13:52:36","slug":"week-2-what-is-an-image","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa2100216\/class-notes\/week-2-what-is-an-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 02- The power of images\/ What is an image?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Objectives<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">General understanding of the questions related to the definition of images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">our relation to them<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The thesis of this class.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What is an image?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Representation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemical_equation\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Chemical equations<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8220;APPLE&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">What<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">would be the characteristics of images? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">What is their function? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Where does the image exist?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">What does an image do?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-CA\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Michel Focault:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\"><i>(the word)\u2026\u201d is a secret that carries within itself, though near the surface, the decipherable signs of what it is trying to say\u201d (35, THE ORDER OF THINGS)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Philosophy<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/mental-imagery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mental imagery<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">(varieties of which are sometimes colloquially refer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"es-ES\">r<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">ed to as \u201cvisualizing,\u201d \u201cseeing in the mind\u2019s eye,\u201d \u201chearing in the head,\u201d \u201cimagining the feel of,\u201d etc.) is <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\"><i>quasi-perceptual experience<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\"><i>; it resembles perceptual experience, but occurs in the absence of the appropriate external stimuli<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/sellars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manifest vs Scientific<\/a>: (\u2026) the major problem confronting philosophy today (,,,) is the \u201cclash\u201d between \u201cthe \u2018manifest\u2019 image of man-in-the-world\u201d and \u201cthe scientific image.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Memory as the image of an image\/experience- <\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">How to convey an experience?\/ A concept? \/ A feeling\/ Something we cannot fully comprehend?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-CA\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Poetry<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-CA\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">From poetryarchive.org:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryarchive.org\/glossary\/imagery\">Imagery<\/a> is the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses.\u201d Despite &#8220;image&#8221; being a synonym for &#8220;picture&#8221;, images need not be only visual; any of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) can respond to what a poet writes.(&#8230;)\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">Love arrives<br \/>\nand in its train come ecstasies<br \/>\nold memories of pleasure<br \/>\nancient histories of pain (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/touched-by-an-angel\/\">Maya Angelou<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=surrealism&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1080&amp;bih=633&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjbq6PMxo_PAhVP-mMKHd5wBvMQsAQIRw&amp;dpr=2#imgrc=hT60K-_Yaji19M%3A\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">Surrealism-\u00a0 images of dreams<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundimage.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">http:\/\/soundimage.org\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NmQBw7tDkAk\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">A chien andalou<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Why do we create images? What is our relation to images?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/modvisart.blogspot.ca\/2006\/11\/v-flusser-image-technical-image.html\" target=\"_blank\">Technical Images<\/a>\u2013 <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">human civilization has seen two fundamental turning points since its beginnings. The first occurred approximately during the second half of the second millennium, B.C., and may be defined as \u201cthe invention of linear writing\u201d. The second \u2014 we are witnessing it \u2014 may be called \u201cthe invention of technical images.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In class: <span lang=\"en-CA\">What is an image?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Digital image<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">image size \/ resolution \/ <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is a pixel?<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Homework:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa2100216\/weekly-assignments\/week-2\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What is an apple?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives General understanding of the questions related to the definition of images our relation to them The thesis of this class. What is an image? Representation Chemical equations &#8220;APPLE&#8221; What would be the characteristics of images? What is their function? Where does the image exist? What does an image do? 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