Digital and Post-Photographic Image

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In this curricular unit two methodological structures will be used: the exhibition with demonstration and / or illustration and application works, in which students will have the opportunity to invest the acquired knowledge. The periodic evaluation will be carried out through the 1. development of individual projects of analysis of texts (also visual ones), around themes of syllabus extension / deepening (20%); 2. oral defense of these projects (70%); 3. Attendance and class participation (10%).

1. Knowing the theoretical approaches that explain our relationship with images.
2. Identify and analyze the sociological condition of the images, their “lifestyle” and the iconic significance of contextual constraints.
3. Meet some paradigms of social representation constructed through images.
4. Analyze the ways of conceptualizing the world operated through images.
5. Understand the representations conveyed by the media and the characteristics of popular culture sustained by them.
6. Know the mutations occurring in the images and looks over time, with particular emphasis on the post- photographic era, implemented by the digital technology.
7. Know the relations (friction, cooperation and hybrids) between the visual and the verbal and the mutations that occurred in this field since the emergence of electronic technology and digital.
8. Develop critical thinking about the contemporary, based on knowledge about images and gaze.

1. Decline of the classic image in the digital era
2. Digital Image Features
3. The post-photographic age
4. Image versus Visual
5. Virtualities: the relationship between images and reality
6. The place of news images in our relationship with the world: contingency, imagination and emotion. 6.1. The voice of the visual and the images of impending death
7. Hyperreality
8. Authenticity and Identity in paintings and photographs
9. Originals and copies
10. Scientific imagery
11. Image manipulation / editing techniques: cut and paste, rotate, scale, stretch and shrink, map, mask, retouch and paint, combine captured and synthetic images
12. Convergence and multimedia in web photojournalism

• - Project - 20.0%
• - Attendance and Participation - 10.0%
• - Project oral defense - 70.0%

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