The Visual Detective: Decoding Our Visual Landscape

Catalog description

The course will decode various pictorial languages from cave paintings to modern advertisements. It will draw from numerous texts and case-studies to consider the visual and linguistic biases that shape our perception of the contemporary world. The course will address how these distortions make one vulnerable to exploitation by various interests, from governments to social networks. The objective is finally to empower students with skills to interpret their visual universes effectively.