| 2. Visual Perception and Knowledge |
2.1. Main theoretical approaches
2.2. The perceptual process: from the world to the eye, from the eye to the gaze, and from the gaze to cognition |
| 3. The Digital Image |
3.1. What is still considered an image? The contemporary image
3.2. Aesthetic novelties and new modes of image production: the pixel, the glitch, the error, lo-fi, autobiography, and self-representation...
3.3. Possibilities and integration of AI-generated images
3.4. Analog image = truth, digital image = lie? |
| 4. The Isolated Image: Visual Elements |
4.1. Differences between isolated images and sequential images
4.2. Basic techniques of visual communication: temporal and spatial dimensions of the image
4.3. Image construction. Morphological elements of the image: point, line, plane, color, mode, shape, and texture
4.4. Image construction. Scalar elements of the image: representation space and represented space, image size, scale, proportion, format, framing, and dimension
4.5. Can an isolated image "move" or "last"? |
| 5. The Dynamic Image: Composition |
5.1. Windows to the world: framing, frame, field
5.2. Dynamic elements of the image: sequential image, narrative image, dynamic image, direction, tension, rhythm, visual expression techniques, contrast, harmony, and ellipsis
5.3. Fundamentals of composition: the rule of thirds, the horizon rule, the golden ratio |
