{"id":1122,"date":"2018-01-26T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/?page_id=1122"},"modified":"2018-01-26T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T07:22:00","slug":"what-is-an-image-today","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/weekly-challenges\/what-is-an-image-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an image today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"direction: ltr; border-width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; margin-top: 0in; margin-left: 0in; width: 6.5569in;\">\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; margin-top: 0in; margin-left: 0in; width: 6.5569in;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Light'; font-size: 14.0pt;\">In our last meeting we considered how, historically, there exists a correspondence between techniques of representation and the dominant ideas (ideologies) of each particular epoch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Light'; font-size: 14.0pt;\">Our next class we will continue these reflections, this time focusing on the present: WHAT IS AN IMAGE TODAY?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Light'; font-size: 14.0pt;\">In preparation, this homework is an invitation to consider the characteristic features of contemporary images.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Light'; font-size: 14.0pt;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">1. Read <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digicult.it\/digimag\/issue-066\/the-truth-of-experience-notes-of-expanded-photography\/\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">The Truth of experience<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"en-US\"> and post your reflections or favorite passages<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Light'; font-size: 14.0pt;\">2. Spend some time in the image-sharing sites of your choice and comment on the nature of the images:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Light'; font-size: 14.0pt;\">What are their unique features? How are they created? How do they exist and disseminate?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Light'; font-size: 14.0pt;\">WHAT IS THE &#8216;REAL&#8217; THAT THUS EMERGES?<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-CA\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: 'Yu Gothic UI Light'; font-size: 14.0pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our last meeting we considered how, historically, there exists a correspondence between techniques of representation and the dominant ideas (ideologies) of each particular epoch. Our next class we will continue these reflections, this time focusing on the present: WHAT IS AN IMAGE TODAY? In preparation, this homework is an invitation to consider the characteristic features of contemporary images. 1. Read The Truth of experience and post your reflections or favorite passages 2. Spend some time in the image-sharing sites of your choice and comment on the nature of the&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/weekly-challenges\/what-is-an-image-today\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23607,"featured_media":0,"parent":812,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","et-no-image","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122\/revisions\/1124"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}