1. What do you see? (How do I look?) on teaching visual literacy to newly arrived first year art and design students Jenny Godfrey, Information Advisor for art, design and visual resources , Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University

2. School aimed to provide us with a broad general education what do we do at Art School? Image 1 Image 2 Edward Ardizzone, Model and Her Reflection 1960 Tate Gallery http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks?q=ardiz zone School Timetable http://www.eyemead.com/rgs-jcp.htm 3. .we explore (widely) Da Russell Brand Bob Geldof Brian Cox Dara OBriaen Examples of interdisciplinarity in popular culture 4. Visual literacy is . A set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively. Find Interpret Evaluate Use Create.. images and visual media Association of College and Research Libraries 'Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education' adopted in 2011 5. Visualization of concepts in the ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Copyright 2013 The Johns Hopkins University Press 6. Talking about talking about art http://vimeo.com/77436456 Film excerpt Art and Design students are asked to talk about their own work and the work of their peers in studio crits. They are also required to write and talk about the work of other artists and visual culture for their theoretical studies. They need to learn how to talk about art and design Art Crits : 20 Questions A Commissioned Artists Video (Talking About Talking About: An Introduction to Visual Art Critiques by Giles Bunch) 7. What do you see? David Scherman Published in UK Vogue, July 1945, page 73. Captioned as: Hitler's Munich apartment: Lee Miller http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian /2007/sep/01/weekend7.weekend5 8. What do You See? Silent, colour motion picture sequence shot by Abraham Zapruder with a home-movie camera, Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas November 22, 1963 http://fansinaflashbulb.wordpress.com/2013/0 5/23/the-pink-mist/ 9. What do you think you see? (interpreting images) Damien Hirst Crematorium 1996 http://www.damienhirst.com/crematorium Image: 10. What is this photograph saying loud and clear? Amanda Knox The Week with First Post online newspaper downloaded Sept 2013. article not retrievable but is summarised here Full article at: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/57043,news- comment,news-politics,a-psychoanalyst-on- the-signs-that-amanda-knox-is-a-psychopath The image used in the article is under copyright but is online here http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9vYa3gq9w_k/Sx10ecTW7pI/AAAAAAA AB7A/FP-aQ8sxK_o/s400/knoxy.bmp 11. A photograph is a likeness but what else are these two photos doing? Image: Shrine entitled Innocent Victims in Harrods Department Store downloaded from Harrods website Sept 2013 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/79457 30/Princess-Diana-and-Dodi-Fayed-memorials-may-be-about-to- be-removed-from-Harrods.html 12. Images can convey complex information infographics Video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four 13. the power of an iconic image allied to the power of social media Image: Standing Man photo downloaded Sept 2013 http://globalnews.ca/news/781928/11- iconic-images-of-protest/ Copyright Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images 14. Misunderstanding images http://art-damaged.tumblr.com/archive http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/art-under-attack-histories-british-iconoclasm Image 1: Chris Ofili Black Madonna http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/39283 Image 2: Dennis Heiner damaging Black Madonna http://art-damaged.tumblr.com/post/22091656439/chris-ofili-the-holy-virgin-mary-paint-in 15. The hands on session 16. Critical thinking: When you consider what to say about an image try to Use argument and comparison Consider more than the obvious Pay attention to assumptions Raise questions and try to answer them Notice emotional issues and address these aspects Offer reasoned evidence Try to find more than one way of looking at the image Recognise that your own prior ideas may be colouring your response 17. look at one of these image collections Explore the resource and choose an image you think is interesting enough to talk about take down notes while you discuss the image and at 4.30pm we will be ready for you all to present your findings to the room Steve McCurry http://stevemccurry.wordpress.com/ Worth Global Style Network (WGSN) https://tsr.cardiffmet.ac.uk/Learning/Library/eleclib/Pages/databaseatoz.aspx?resourceID=155 Tate Art and Artists https://tsr.cardiffmet.ac.uk/Learning/Library/eleclib/Pages/databaseatoz.aspx?resourceID=117 V&A Collections https://tsr.cardiffmet.ac.uk/Learning/Library/eleclib/Pages/databaseatoz.aspx?resourceID=118 Bridgeman Education https://tsr.cardiffmet.ac.uk/Learning/Library/eleclib/Pages/databaseatoz.aspx?resourceID=17 Google Cultural Institute http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art-project Corbis https://tsr.cardiffmet.ac.uk/Learning/Library/eleclib/Pages/databaseatoz.aspx?resourceID=99 Wellcome Institute https://tsr.cardiffmet.ac.uk/Learning/Library/eleclib/Pages/databaseatoz.aspx?resourceID=119 Jennys art design and architecture blog http://artdesarc.blogspot.co.uk/ Slide Library (today as a drawer of slides) Room 2.19 second floor South Block, Howard Gardens http://www.andrewandoru.com/lighttable/ website that turns your iphone into a mini light table for slide viewing 18. They had fun 19. Presenting their findings 20. They learnt How to communicate and work cooperatively with someone they didnt know The fun of contributing to open discussions Where the electronic library was and that it contains image databases That I am there to help them as a subject specialist librarian That all is not always what it seems in an image That people can hold equally valid but opposing ideas That opinions should be backed up That there are at least an A4 pages worth of potential questions you could ask of an image (see my hand-out) 21. I learnt that Visual literacy (as defined by ACRL ) provides an excellent framework for me to organise and present a wide range of information about images relevant to art and design students Interactive and hands on teaching sessions engage studentsthey are fun and encourage the idea that the librarian/teacher is an approachable person. If you offer Google images as a source students will just search for what they know already I changed the option from Google Images to Google Cultural Institute after the first session 22. Some of the images the students found and talked about Images are under copyrightthey were shown as a lecture (by means of the instruction Copyright exception) but not cleared for use in Slideshare 23. A session for level 5 students: Remember copyright Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/videos/creative-commons-kiwi Pinterest Flickr Blogs Instagram websites For advice on image copyright use JISC Digital Media http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/ 24. Referencing images Always credit the images that you use Guidelines for the citation of moving image and sound From BUFVC Referencing image sources using the Harvard style From the University of the Creative Arts Image : The Interior of an Artist's Studio (oil on panel) Francken, Frans II the Younger & workshop (1581 - 1642) 25. REFERENCES Slide 5 Association of College and Research Libraries 'Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education' adopted in 2011 Slide 6 Talking About Talking About: An Introduction to Visual Art Critiques by Giles Bunch http://q-art.org.uk/portfolio/art-crit-video/ Slide 7 David Scherman Published in UK Vogue, July 1945, page 73. Captioned as: Hitler's Munich apartment: Lee Miller http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/sep/01/weekend7.weekend5 Slide 8 Silent, colour motion picture sequence shot by Abraham Zapruder with a home-movie camera, Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas November 22, 1963 http://fansinaflashbulb.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/the-pink-mist/ Slide 9 Damien Hirst Crematorium 1996 http://www.damienhirst.com/crematorium Slide 10 Amanda Knox The Week with First Post online newspaper downloaded Sept 2013 Slide 11 Shrine entitled Innocent Victims in Harrods Department Store downloaded from Harrods website Sept 2013 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/7945730/Princess-Diana-and-Dodi-Fayed-memorials-may-be-about-to-be-removed-from-Harrods.html Slide 12 Hans Rosling The Joy of Stats Documentary exploring the history of statistics and how they can help society today 07 Dec 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10431350/Hans-Rosling-the-man-who-makes-statistics-sing.html Slide 13 Standing Man photo downloaded Sept 2013 http://globalnews.ca/news/781928/11-iconic-images-of-protest/ Slide 14 Chris Ofili Black Madonna http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/39283 http://art-damaged.tumblr.com/post/22091656439/chris-ofili-the-holy-virgin-mary-paint-in Slide 24: The Interior of an Artist's Studio (oil on panel) Francken, Frans II the Younger & workshop (1581 - 1642)