Visual Culture / Design Culture (Guy Julier)
From Visual Culture to Design Culture (Julier). This paper seems to connect to my last post (Explicit Meaning in Digital Artifacts). Julier separates visual culture from design, and re-names as design culture. I struggle with this concept on the grounds that, although it appears to be logical i.e. making visual language/culture explicit in its meaning [...]
Explicit Meaning in Digital Artifacts (?)
In response to a tweet from Sian: To be explicit in image making is to be obvious (apparent). I would suggest that this method of image creation is better associated with the comercial world, not art (is comercial perceived as academic?). So where is academic meaning found in visual culture. Do we need to abandon [...]
Week Four #ededc
Week four was a crazy week! A good proportion of this week (outside of work duty) has been spent swatting for an interview (SL lecturer academic development), meaning a lot less time available for #ededc. I was happy with the work I produced for #edcmooc Friday 8th. My artifact portrayed MOOC activity as I had [...]
#edcmooc Artifact Response
My #edcmooc artifact is a direct attempt to find meaning in MOOC activity. It does not do this not by taking individual MOOC artifacts text or image, but sees MOOC activity as crowed of voices. It made no sense to me to investigate individual MOOC elements as one voice (or a number of voices in [...]
Idea for MOOC Artifact…
A conversation with Gunther Kress, Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Berger… Now that’s a challenge! Just sound? If have time would love to use video…
Week Three #ededc
(Howard Hodgkin) “A picture held us captive” (Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889 – 1951) Week three, a MOOC, modality and transliteracy. Three epic encounters! The first of my posts in week three takes the opportunity to juxtapose Kess with Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein has engaged my thinking for a number of years. In my opinion Kress echos (and [...]
