{"id":392,"date":"2015-09-08T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T22:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa210002\/?page_id=392"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T00:27:35","slug":"week-1-introductions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/class-notes\/week-1-introductions\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 01- Introductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Humanity is undergoing a<\/span>n <span lang=\"en-US\">extrao<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">r<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">dinary<\/span> period of intense changes<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif; font-size: large;\">affecting every aspect of our existence. These are<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large; font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif; color: #000000;\"> driven, to a large degree, by the speed of technological <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\" style=\"font-size: large; font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">evolution. Many consider ours to be a defining moment in human history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This class explores <span lang=\"en-US\">some aspects of our present condition\u00a0through the examination of <\/span><em>the interrelations between images, technology and humanity at the turn of the 21 century<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> general thesis if this course is this: <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">the ongoing changes in our relation to images brought about by current technologies signals the emergence of a new, visual language.<\/span><\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">During the term we will investigate such <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">possibility\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">by attempting to communicate through images; to create a term-long image-based dialogue.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newhive.com\/manopb\/visa21003intro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Chart<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Homework<\/span><\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/week-1-01-08\/\">As an introduction to our reflections next class, please <strong>describe your relation to an image of your choice<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity is undergoing an extraordinary period of intense changes\u00a0affecting every aspect of our existence. These are driven, to a large degree, by the speed of technological evolution. Many consider ours to be a defining moment in human history. This class explores some aspects of our present condition\u00a0through the examination of the interrelations between images, technology and humanity at the turn of the 21 century A general thesis if this course is this: the ongoing changes in our relation to images brought about by current technologies signals the emergence of a&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/class-notes\/week-1-introductions\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23607,"featured_media":0,"parent":76,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-392","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\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions\/1198"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}