Visual learning

By Lizabel Mónica Visual Artist Nestor Siré has set up an art gallery inside today's most popular Cuban media. El Paquete is a 1 Terabyte size changing database of digital content, mostly pirated, and transferred informally through USB external hard drives. El Paquete is nothing like television, any form of radio, or the Internet. It is a huge media phenomenon run through hand-to-hand distribution and outside of government control. There, Siré has managed to insert an Art Gallery. WHO IS…

Szarkowski’s “The Photographer’s Eye”, discusses the transition at the beginning of the age of photography. One of the most striking statements he made was the fact that photography has made impacts on modern artists. Not only has it affected fellow photographers, but also painters, sculptors, and even writers. Being able to look at actual still photographs long after the moment it was taken has completely changed the way most people look at the world around them. Photographers are considered…

The Limit and the Power of Representation It was in my sophomore year that for the first time I saw the movie, Hibiscus Town. Vividly imprinted in my mind are the two devastated souls cleaning up the street and their being condemned publicly against the wall full of propaganda scribbles in the Hibiscus Town. Indeed, this cinematic representation informed me of the knowledge I already or did not yet know about the Cultural Revolution—how irrational a political movement could become, and how…

Afra Ankita Class 625 EV3 Test 3 The threshold for white was any intensity above 95%. The threshold for black was any intensity below 6%. This is because the first white surface that was tested for its reflected light intensity turned out to be 95%. The second test for white was 100%, the third was 97%. All these tests were made by using “Port View” on the robot.“Port View” can be found by going to “Utilities” on the robot’s screen. Then going over to the port that the color sensor is connected…

To begin with, my view of art has changed, for I now know that it may not only be a painting or sculpture, but also a building design or a cultural artifact. Objects such as masks, pieces of clothing, and blueprints allow the audience to admire and realize that art has many forms and shapes which represent their heritage and importance in their time. For instance, the outstanding way that Jeff Koons demonstrates the importance of art and its surroundings with his artwork Puppy, located in Spain.…

In Witt, J. K., & Proffitt, D. R. (2005), the experiments assess whether the influence of effort on distance perception is generally or functionally specific. In the first three experiments, the effort for throwing was manipulated by having half of the participants throw a heavy ball and the other half throw a light ball. It was found that effort for throwing influenced verbal reports of distance as well as perceptual distance - matching tasks, but, effort for throwing did not influence…

Born in 1955 in Pennsylvania, Jeff Koons is a renowned American contemporary artist known for his practice of placing every day, ordinary objects in unique installations. Although he got his expertise in Baltimore at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he obtained his M.F.A., he ended up transferring to the School of the Art Institution of Chicago after visiting and becoming inspired by an exhibit of Jim Nutt, who also attended the Art Institution on Chicago. He stated in an…

Locking eyes with a stranger across the room can easily be marginalized as an occurrence, which only holds weight in half baked romantic comedies. This particular sentiment could not be further from the truth, as gaze and gaze direction plays an integral role in our non-verbal communications with other humans. The reaction of an individual to eye contact or gaze usually depends on the mutuality of the eye contact, such as in positive cases involving sexual of personal interest, or negative…

organism matures. Because a large majority of the neurons in the superior colliculus are visually responsive, Wallace et al.1 hypothesized that visual stimuli was necessary for the development of multisensory integration. To test this claim, he and his colleagues reared 9 cats in complete darkness and tested each neuron in the superior colliculus for responses to visual, auditory and somatosensory stimuli. It was found that, although sensory experience is not necessary for the superior colliculi…

In the short story “First Contact”, Leinster approaches the notion of ‘othering’ through the element, vision, and its related elements, light and darkness. According to Dr. Stephen E. Palmer’s textbook Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology, “vision relies on three basic elements, adaptation, sensitivity, and perception”(5). Eyes adapt to various levels of light in order to sense and perceive any figures within the environment. As light decreases, the eyes adapt up to a point until the range…