ARTD 2315 Introduction to Visual Meaning: This introductory course lays the groundwork for visual semiotics and design literacy, to understand how meaning is formed. It consists of practical design applications reflecting cultural, social, political and psychological contexts.
Taught
2002 Fall Intro to Visual Meaning ARTD 2315/DMST 2000, two sections
2004 Fall Intro to Visual Meaning ARTD 2315/DMST 2000
This course was retitled Introduction to eMAD begining the fall of 2005.
Outcomes
Gallery (12 images)
documenting 8 x 8 pixel and 16 x 16 pixel self-portraits. The students were
exploring the pixel as a fundamental unit of digital meaning, and progressively
building projects of greater complexity. This project links the highly abstract
pixel with concrete attempts at representation similar to how hand-made marks
of different shades are composed in a drawing.