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"To See Or Not To See": SustainabilityReading Images – Exploring Visual Culture. Focus: Images of Sustainabilty A lecture-seminar exploring the field of visual culture in the tension field between visibility and invisibility. Each lesson starts with "close readings" of images from fine arts, media, sciences and/or popular culture. Our goal is not only to reveal possible meanings of images and to render them with respect to related conditions of production, publication and perception/reception. Special attention is devotet to processes of mutual exchange, gains and losses, conflicts and negotiations between different areas of visual culture and other fields of cultural activity, as well as the historical horizon of current aesthetic and social practices. Each term comes with a special thematic focus. The special focus for summer 2010 is: Please note: The original German Title – "Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst" (rough translation: "I see something you don't see") refers to a popular children's game. In Anglo-american cultures a similar game is known as "I spy with my little eye…" Metadata: * Plus on-the-spot visits (a.o. Senckenberg Museum of Natural History). project: Sustainability related projects: Biotope City Frankfurt, Recycling Invention |