Perception, Imagology and Visualization this year
Professor Anthony Johnson After the student’s texts last week, I will now publish some posts in English, due to our current courses in English and all the positive interest that we receive from...
View ArticleUnderstanding Basic Vision
Contemplation of Basic Vision, according to the famous philosopher Descartes (1637) This is a little report on what we have been doing the past weeks in the Visual studies program. We now start every...
View ArticleThese courses will start during MARCH 2015 in VISUAL STUDIES
INTERMEDIARY LEVEL: Photography and the Moving Image (130026.1) 5p. STARTS ON MONDAY 16th! Fourth mandatory course for students at the intermediary level. Other students of ÅAU and exchange students...
View ArticleVi-Ser (Visual Studies Seminar) starts in Turku next week!
Intermediary level / ämnesnivå: Vi-Ser (Visual Studies Studies Seminar) now starts! As a student, you can follow the seminar this Autumn as a 5 ECTS course called ”Content Analysis in Visual Studies”...
View ArticleVisual studies into the future…
James Elkins proclaimed ”Farewell” to Visual studies in 2016, as an ironic gesture. The Stone Art Theory Institutes: Volume Five. It was almost three years ago since anything was last posted here....
View ArticleVisual studies and Art history
A typical picture for Visual studies? One can say a lot in sociological terms about this. This is the type of pictures people usually ask us about. Art history is an important part of Visual studies,...
View ArticleFreedom of speech 2: Jan Myrdal and Aron Flam
After of our thematic weeks about social and political aspects of comics, the following update by Fred Andersson: Some weeks ago I promised a Part 2 of my reflections on artists, satire and the freedom...
View ArticleWelcome again to Visual Studies – its 14th year at Åbo Akademi
An important statement of Visual Studies: From an exhibition by the artist Alfredo Jaar in 2013. Source: https://alfredojaar.net/projects/2013/ Hello! This is still the blog of the Visual Studies minor...
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