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Summer Session in Japanese Visual Culture
at Temple University Japan
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Minami
Azabu, Tokyo
May 14- June 27, 2007
This 6-week session
will examine the notion of Japanese visual culture.
We will take on a broad range of topics, involving
the making / producing of visual phenomena / artifacts
/ objects, the visual products themselves, and
acts of looking at, examining and interpreting
characteristics of the visual/pictorial world.
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Visual Culture will be defined very broadly, not
to be limited to the fine arts. Attention will
be distributed across a wide range of image-related
activities from classical arts to vernacular examples,
so popular in contemporary everyday life.
The program supports interests
in producing visual imagery, in the exploration
of visual means of communicating socio-cultural
in-formation.
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Topics will range from the visuality of calligraphy
to manga, and the pictures taken and mailed (sha-mail)
using modern telephony (keitai-cameras).
We
will cover mass media and home media as related
to public and private systems of visual/pictorial
commun-ication. Intra-personal, interpersonal,
small group and mass models of visual communication
will be explored.
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Much of the study of culture is visual – examination
of the visually symbolic systems that comprise and support
everyday life. One approach is to ask the general and
ambiguous question: “How do they look?” This
introduces a coordinated effort to examine relationship
of appearance and perspective, of how people wish to be
seen and how they prefer to see the world. The summer
program will explore and evaluate this two-pronged approach
to the visual culture of Japan. |
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