"There is no life here except that which you give to it."

In our discussion of "animation" this week, I connected the McCloud quote above to the idea of a continuum of an active viewer/spectator/reader/gamer/participant of a text. McCloud also argues that "Icons demand our participation to make them work" (p. 59). Comment on this if your birthday falls between day 1-15 of the month, and if it is between 16-31, then write a blog entry that others can comment on.

Welcome to VisCult 09!

This is the blog for Approaches to Visual Culture, Fall 09, at Berklee College of Music. This is where the members of the class will post their ideas, pictures from our class meetings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and where Prof. Lori Landay will put various and sundry class materials. As we explore the role of the visual, we'll experiment here with podcasts, other aspects of multimedia, mobile technology, virtual worlds--whatever we can think of, get our hands on, or become interested in that has to do with visual culture.

This is our public presence on the web, and if you have found us and you are not in our class, you are welcome to join in and comment respectfully, too.