According to
this week’s reading and lecture contents, it can be seen that new forms of
media enable people for the enhanced modulation of visual expression and in
doing so, create new forms of engagement between this visual content with
texts, sounds and proprioception (Murphie, Lecture 9). However, the message
which the visualization attempts to express to its publics is finally in the
hands of its creator, the artist. In another word, it seems that rather than
being objective, visualization has a subjective nature. In exploring the
subjectivity of visual content and the ways of it affecting the publics’
engagement with it. Therefore, in the following content, I am planning to point
out a picture which regarding perspective.
According to
ARTS2090 Lecture Slides, there is a picture which demonstrates the ‘different
perspectives of the same flower’. With the development of advanced technology
today, it is possible for people to see the things they normally are not able
to see. Nowadays, they are essentially making the invisible visible. The truth
is that many insects and birds have instinctive skills which are able to see
these seemingly “invisible” occurrences without any forms of assistance
whatsoever, ultraviolet light is one of the significant examples. According to
science NASA, Ultraviolet (UV) light can be defined as that ‘Ultraviolet (UV)
light has shorter wavelengths than visible light. Although UV waves are invisible
to the human eye, some insects, such as bumblebees, can see them. This is
similar to how a dog can hear the sound of a whistle just outside the hearing
range of humans’ (NASA, 2014). Moreover, it can also be found in lecture notes
that butterflies are known to have the widest visual range of any animal, it
means that they can see the ultraviolet nectar in flowers, resulting in the
image I post in this blog(Murphie, Lecture 9). It can be concluded that
according to the comparison, it can be treated as a meaningful power which is
one of the most prominent representative in the visual experience. This
experience is highly up to the subject and why we need to visualize certain
things. Whether it is a human, insects or a butterfly, the engagement with visualization
up to the subject’s perspective and what they’re trying to see.
Furthermore,
Visualizations are now being commonly used by publishers in order to handle the
lazier population of the cyber-world. People have become so inclined to assimilating
information through visual sources, other than learning from the more
traditional way by reading scholarly texts. For me, I prefer to learn visually
other than spending hours and hours trying to read and understand a text,
simply for the amount of time that could be saved. This week, we also specifically
focused on the use of visualizations to illustrate and explain on scientific
findings as well as scientific researches. From Anon's article written in 2008,
it can be seen that he looks at the issues surrounding the globe because of the
extreme climate changes which called global warming. He also specifically
focuses on how the US
The article
published on an online news site which called 'Metro' use a powerful visual
image of a polar bear struggling to clench onto a small bit of ice berg.
Automatically, readers are gravitated to the image and soon after it was
assumed that a strong sense of sympathy towards the bear is gathered. From this
use of such a powerful visualization, it can be concluded that Anon was successfully
attracts the attention of individuals and people were willing to join this calls
for action to be taken to help save the lives of polar bears, as well as Mother
Earth.
Overall, visualizations
are not only being used to demonstrate the certain ideas and teachings, but it
also in order to create a social bond amongst people by expressing issues
surrounding society.
reference:
http://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/pluginfile.php/904956/mod_resource/content/1/lecs8to10visual_culture.pdf
http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/10_ultravioletwaves.html
