Su Jin
Writing Across Media
Visual :: Attendance
6/11 What emoji do you use the most?
6/12 Two insights from last night's reading
1. Writers use visual elements with purposes.
2. Readers interpret texts with visual cues and social context.
6/13 An insight from reading and project idea
a. visual rhetoric “focus[es] on a rhetorical response to an image rather than an aesthetic one”
b. The image must be symbolic, involve human intervention, and be presented to an audience for the purpose of communicating with that audience
[tools and a medium]
graffiti - reclaiming spaces
(gang culture, hiphop, street/subway art)
ex) subway making into "better" area
appropriating illegal cultures(spray painting)
associate visual medium with space
street art represents something – a person, object, or situation (Hill 25). Street artists attempt to use certain symbols that people will recognize, “speaking to them and for them
mapping identity: positioning yourself
6/17
How to Lie with Maps
"There's no escape from the cartographic paradox: to present a useful and truthful picture, an accurate map must tell white lies."
"In showing how to lie with maps, I want to make readers aware that maps, like speeches and paintings, are authored collections of information and also are subject to distortions arising from ignorance, greed, ideological blindness, or malice."
NPR
"Most maps aren't to get from point A to point B. Most maps are about how we as a civilization, as different cultures, perceive our lives in this box that we live in. All human activity takes place in space, and cartography is the thing that lets us keep track of that space."
map: authorial control
whatever you choose to exclude is as important as whatever you choose to include. what counts and what doesn't
google map
property line
npr: audio describing a map(visual)
constraints maps are typically visual
expecting maps to acually be the visual representation of direction
maps show you processes 1. how to do things
2. the "right" way
(automatically have the authority) directions are authority
youtube video is map
enlarged to show texture: distort reality
lies are showing your positionality(what you value)
in order to get meaning across, symbols of larger things are used to convey a complex meaning in the clearest and the most succinct way possible
leave something to interpretation
constraints of images: how much detail can actually be conveyed before overwhelming the image itself
selection process displays the value system of the creator and is as important as the product
the messages how to do something in a certain way
6/18 An insight and something new that made you
think in a way that you haven't before
1. The creator chooses what to exclude and include in image, showing his positionality. The image can be a map.
2. project idea: I could show my positionlaity in image.
3.
her argument: She interacts with the world around her.
She affects the world around her (hands / mouth); The world around her affects her.
heroes - david bowie
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words are also visual with image
all the element works together
semiotic(process of making meaning) - map showing you the process .. how to youtube video
symbols, text, ...
people get different messages
authorial intent means little compared to audience's reception
rationale : direct quote / no longer than 4lines
affect deals with synethesia
constraints/affordances
stagnant / dynamic images that are in motion
sensoral is the physical sensation
sensoral as well as affects(affects go beyond sensoral product)
6/24
1. "Who can afford to live out loud?": Noise
2. Constraints & Audio Affordances
Finding your voice, even in the loudness of silence
3.Can you hear me now? listening vs. hearing
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[intersectionality]
there are layers of identity
based off of privilege (Audrey L..)
invisible knapsack of privilege
1. to acknowledge difference as not inferior or superior but just different
...there are invisible differences
sometimes privilege is invisible
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elements of privilege
the mythical norm/ideal of western culture
1. to be white 2. male 3. heterosexual 4. uppermiddle class 5. christian 6. thin 7. able bodied 8. educated
If you match 8, you reach the mythical norm
each part that you miss, you have intersection
ex) woc / woman, not white intersectionality
how many layers of identity don't match up with the mythical norm
If you don't acknowledge difference, you are implicitly building hierarchy and binaries
affect of identity and audio processing
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[trigger warnings]
normalize, desensitized
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once you become aware of the difference is visible and audible (woke)
rhetorical situation / context affects your behavior
appropriate: expectation of behavior