{"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":"2017-01-20T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:33:21","slug":"week-2-what-is-an-image","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa2100316\/class-notes\/week-2-what-is-an-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 02- The power of images"},"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<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><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><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Representation<\/p>\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 lang=\"en-CA\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>The apparition of these faces in the crowd<\/i><\/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;\"><i>Petals on a wet, black bough<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica LT Std Light,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/station-metro\">Ezra Poun<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/station-metro\">d<\/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<\/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=saspXQ93VtQ\"><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 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\u00a0<\/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 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa2100316\/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","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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