Visual Language: On Images (97)

Other Courses to Consider

These courses might also be of interest. Note: Students can apply for up to 4 courses and will be admitted to one.

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  Cinema, Media and Society: A Global Survey

  This course will introduce you to what the academic study of film and media looks like at the undergraduate level. It will expose you to a wide range of industries, cinemas, and formats (including documentaries, essay films, and other non-fiction forms; the commercial cinemas of Hollywood and Bollywood; experimental art films, and East Asian animation), and develop your skills in discussing the social and historical legacies of these works as cultural products in relation to one another. This course encourages the close analysis of camera techniques, materials, compositing, and formal attributes, and explores a range of political and cultural questions pertaining to the production, distribution, and consumption of these audiovisual forms. Students will take advantage of multiple UChicago resources, such as campus screening rooms, the Weston Games Lab, museum installations, and VR platforms, as they compose both critical writing and creative storyboards in response to assigned course materials.

  Residential
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  Film and the Moving Image

  This course seeks to develop skills in perception, comprehension, and interpretation when dealing with film and other moving image media. It encourages the close analysis of audiovisual forms, their materials and formal attributes, and explores the range of questions and methods appropriate to the explication of a given film or moving image text. It also examines the intellectual structures basic to the systematic study and understanding of moving images. Most importantly, the course aims to foster in students the ability to translate this understanding into verbal expression, both oral and written.

  Texts and films are drawn from the history of narrative, experimental, animated, and non-fiction cinema.

  Remote
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  Drawing and the Making of Architecture

  This course focuses on the practice of drawing in the making of architecture. It explores the act of tracing lines on a surface as the foundation of design: a word that evokes through its own origins the very moment of architectural invention. As the most direct expression of the architect’s ideas and an operative form of non-verbal thinking, the physical response of the hand to media contributes crucially to the creative process. This intensive studio experience will offer an unmediated encounter with a range of techniques: we will test different tools and conventions to understand the interaction throughout history between drawing’s materiality and design practice. Parallel to this, we will discuss a wide selection of readings critically, thus reconstructing the evolving theory of representation in architectural writings and the relevance of graphic expression to both theorists and practitioners. Ultimately, the course will introduce students to norms and conventions of technical drawing by revealing a primary tool in the production of architecture from the point of view of its makers.

  Residential