Visual Literacy Quiz 7

Vision

physical apparatus

apperception

visual information merges with the sensory information along with existing memories and knowledge

synaesthesia

colors and shapes associated with sounds, smells and feelings

Vision & the other senses

vision traditionally top sense of Western hierarchy

ocularcentrism

critique says vision complicit in social oppression via surveillance & spectacle

"eye of God"

idea of controlling deity

Panopticon (Jeremy Bentham)

"all seeing" prison design

Panopticism

humans internalize scrutinizing gaze

biopower

state has indirect control over citizens

surveillance society

incredible array of spying technology

feminist critique (Luce Irigaray)

associated with male dominance (patriarchy); eye objectifies and masters; "gaze"

history of perception (donald lowe)

different classes/different periods emphasized different senses/ways of perceiving

visuality

socialized vision; knowledge, interests, desires and social relations between perceiver and perceived

representation

use of language and images to create meaning about the world

debate - is it: mimesis or social construction

mimesis

mirroring the world

social constructions

making meaning only through specific cultural contexts

meditated vision

seeing images vs. seeing the world

media visual representations

intentional, encoded communications

modern culture characterized by

mediasation

Art forms that dress more than the eyes/mixed media

perception not limited to sight; many disciplines utilize other senses; one medium can take another ridfferent medium as it ssubject

haptic

touch, texture and contour

kinaesthetic

movement in muscle, tendons, joints

scopic drive

desire to see

invocatory drive

desire to hear

visual representation

issue of why, with similar optical equipment, various cultures use different representational systems

psychology of perception

(Ernst Gombirch) explains style

Artifacts and viewers

Viewing as active mental process; subjective/objective; field of reception theory