Visual Studies grad Avery Lawrence recently exhibited his work at Parse Gallery in New Orleans.
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New Architecture Track in VLST Major
The Visual Studies program is excited to announce a new area of concentration within the major. Now students interested in architecture and product design can declare a major in Visual Studies with a concentration in Architecture Practice and Technology (ArchPT). Students will benefit from the ability to explore courses in the Philosophy and Psychology of Perception, Visual Culture, and History of Art alongside courses in Architectural Design.
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New Fall 2012 Visual Studies Seminar:
VLST 303-301: Rise of Image Culture: History and Theories
Mondays 3:30 to 6:30 | Instructor: Andrew Moisey
Description: Images are ubiquitous in the cultural life of the 21st century, yet only two
centuries ago they were rare. When and how did pictures come to permeate daily life?
How has ordinary experience--psychological, social, cultural, intellectual--changed as
a result? This seminar addresses these questions through close reading of influential historical and theoretical writings about the rise of image culture and its effects, including Benjamin, Debord, McLuhan, Mitchell.
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Visual Studies Lecture Series 2012-2013
Wednesday, October 25, 2012 | 5:00 pm | Rainey Auditorium | Penn Museum
Margaret Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
"What Art Can Tell Us About How We See"
[Penn Humanities Forum Event]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 | 5:30 pm | 402 Claudia Cohen Hall
Norman Badler, Director of the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation, Professor of Computer and Information Science, Director and Faculty Advisor of the Digital Media Design Program
"Eliminating the Visual Boundary between Real and Virtual"
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | 5:30 pm | TBA
Spencer Finch, Artist
"TBA"
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