Etikettarkiv: visual studies

Welcome again to Visual Studies – its 14th year at Åbo Akademi

Hello! This is still the blog of the Visual Studies minor at Åbo Akademi University and I am still Fred Andersson, a Swedish art historian who has been running this business since it started in 2008. Recently I discussed the … Fortsätt läsa

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Freedom 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 of speech (previous post). After … Fortsätt läsa

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Visual studies and Art history

Art history is an important part of Visual studies, and most of us who work in the field are art historians by profession. The somewhat problematic relationship between Art history and Visual studies is discussed in an open and inspiring … Fortsätt läsa

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Visual studies into the future…

It was almost three years ago since anything was last posted here. Probably blogs are already outdated as a means of communication; things develop at an increasing speed (technology, industry, culture, economy, World population), and things which used to be … Fortsätt läsa

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Vi-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” (130027.1). Content Analysis of texts and media is … Fortsätt läsa

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These 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 can also participate. The philosopher Antony Fredriksson (see previous post in … Fortsätt läsa

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Make things clear – new course starts January 28

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Understanding Basic Vision

This is a little report on what we have been doing the past weeks in the Visual studies program. We now start every academic year in English, and with perception. As the title of our course book Basic Vision says, … Fortsätt läsa

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Perception, Imagology and Visualization this year

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 exchange students! On this Thursday two of our courses in … Fortsätt läsa

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