Visual Literacy: Critical Inquiry for Today’s World

Friday, February 8, 13

The Science

•  Lascaux and Chauvet Caves @ 32,000 years ago

•  Ochre body paint and shell necklaces @ about 100,000 years ago

•  Human color vision evolved to detect color contrast as a primitive response for survival

Visual Anthropology

• Visual information processed instantaneously & subconsciously through a complex system perfected through evolution, by at least 3 dozen anatomically distinct regions of the brain

• Studies continue to prove & expand upon the impact of visual information on cognition & neural networks

So what’s the big idea?

Friday, February 8, 13

Friday, February 8, 13

Christoph Niemann

Friday, February 8, 13

Christoph NiemanFriday, February 8, 13

Christoph NiemannFriday, February 8, 13

Friday, February 8, 13

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