Class 1: Pre-Digital Visual Technology (21 Jan) (incl. visit to Maritime Museum)

To prepare for this class, please Choose a writing journal read the material described in Reading and journaling 1: before first class.

Lesson plan:

• 10:15-11:00: Introductions, learning goals, about the course. 
• 11:15-12:00: Other pre-digital visual technologies. 
• 12:15-13:00: Visiting the Maritime Museum (Sjørfartsmuséet) - Demonstrations of ancient norse navigation, how to use a sextant (students will get to try this out), a little bit about radar for navigation. We will be shown around by Arild Marøy Hansen at the museum.

Further Reading

drainville, Ray. 2015. On the Iconology of Aylan Kurdi, Alone. In  Vis, F., & Goriunova, O. (Eds.). The Iconic Image on Social Media: A Rapid Research Response to the Death of Aylan Kurdi*. http://visualsocialmedialab.org/projects/the-iconic-image-on-social-media Links to an external site.

This short paper shows how images that spread today can play upon familiarities with earlier images. This is not about machine vision per se, but shows that visual conventions predate machines as such.

How to make your room into a camera obscura:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvzpu0Q9RTU Links to an external site.

How one-point linear perspective works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOksHhQ8TLM Links to an external site.