{"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":"2018-01-11T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T17:11:13","slug":"week-2-what-is-an-image","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/class-notes\/week-2-what-is-an-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 02- What is an Image?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><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 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemical_equation\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chemical equations<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#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\">Michel Focault:<\/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\">(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)<\/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<\/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? What is their function? What do they <\/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\">do<\/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\">?<\/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;\">2. 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;\">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\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental imagery<\/a> <span lang=\"en-CA\">(varieties of which are sometimes colloquially refer<\/span><span lang=\"es-ES\">r<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">ed<\/span> <span lang=\"en-CA\">to as \u201cvisualizing,\u201d \u201cseeing in the mind\u2019s eye,\u201d \u201chearing in the head,\u201d \u201cimagining the feel of,\u201d etc.) is <\/span><em><span lang=\"en-CA\">quasi-perceptual experience<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"en-CA\">; it resembles perceptual experience, but occurs in the absence of the appropriate external stimuli.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/sellars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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><\/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-\u00a0<\/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 align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span lang=\"en-CA\">Poetry<\/span><\/b><\/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\"><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. 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.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" 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<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">and in its train come ecstasies<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">old memories of pleasure<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">ancient histories of pain.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 90px;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/touched-by-an-angel\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">Maya Angelou<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i><span lang=\"en-CA\">The apparition of these faces in the crowd<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i><span lang=\"en-CA\">Petals on a wet, black bough<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px; text-align: center;\" 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=\"http:\/\/soundimage.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><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\"><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 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" 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\">Breton:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-CA\">I believe in the future transmutation of those two seemingly contradictory states, dream and reality, into a sort of absolute reality, of surreality, so to speak. I am looking forward to its consummation, certain that I shall never share in it, but death would matter little to me could I but taste the joy it will yield ultimately\u201d<\/span><\/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;\">Why do we create images? What is our relation to images?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/modvisart.blogspot.ca\/2006\/11\/v-flusser-image-technical-image.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technical Images<\/a>\u2013 <\/span><\/span><\/b><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><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Different modes of representation implicitly refer to particular ways of seeing the world<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f0\/Duccio_maesta1021.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medieval painting<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b4\/Entrega_de_las_llaves_a_San_Pedro_(Perugino).jpg\/1280px-Entrega_de_las_llaves_a_San_Pedro_(Perugino).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Renaissance\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=daguerreotypes&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1920&amp;bih=1006&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiPvuSDhJDPAhUB4oMKHVHgBdoQ_AUIBigB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technical images<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"text-align: left;\" 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 align=\"LEFT\"><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<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica LT Std Light', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Homework:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/visa21017003\/weekly-challenges\/what-is-an-apple\/\"><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; Michel Focault: (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) What would be the characteristics of images? What is their function? What do they do? 2. Where does the image exist? 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