Anne Bamford

Lecturer, The Institute for Interactive Media and Learning, The University of Technology, New South Wales, Australia

The Grammar of Visual Literacy Within the World of Interactive Media

Abstract

In interactive media, it is the spaces between the text that are as important to read as the text itself. Visual literacy is a vital form of reading in an increasingly pictorial world. This paper examines the grammar of visual literacy by analysing the discourse of a group of adolescents and the way they interpret multi-layered, seriated and framed visuals from a personal, socio-cultural and structural perspective. The paper proposes the case for art education within a literacy context.

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Anne Bamford has taught art in a range of schools and educational situations. She has lectured in Art Education and is currently lecturing in interactive media and learning design at the nationally and internationally recognised Institute for Interactive Media and Learning at the University of Technology in Sydney. Anne is chair of the Australian Institute of Art Educators National Research Council and on the editorial committee of Australian Art Education. She is the Director of Visual Arts for the Centre for Research in Education and the Arts. Anne has written many journal articles and feature articles and has just published "Viewpoints", an examination of visual arts case studies. Anne has extensive experience in developing curriculum support material for teachers and interactive media in tertiary teaching and learning. Her current research interests are in visual literacy and adolescents, art-based research methodologies and the use of interactive media in teaching and learning.

Presentation Type
30 min. Paper

Presentation Equipment and Other Requests
Slide projector and screen
Ability to use PowerPoint with a laptop (portable) Mac G3 (data projector, cables)
overhead projector

Speaking Date/Time Restrictions

Country
Australia