Reading Blog #1

I decided to read this article again. I thought, maybe I will have a new perspective the second time I read it and to review the things it talked about.

While reading this article again, I caught the significance and emphasis on “visual communication” and I felt the need to focus on doing a better job on communicating with my works. Visual literacy is definitely a set of skills that helps you be able to communicate a meaning through images. Visual literacy is a way to communicate things in a way other forms of literacy cannot. This is visual literacy’s unique property. 

Alongside the world changing faster and becoming more digital-dependent, it does feel important for growing children to learn a wider span of studies not weighted towards the logical side. The article refers to understanding images as reading and using images as writing, and it makes sense that these can become as significant as reading and writing as a core curriculum due to how much visuality is used in the world. As the article notes the change in school curriculum in 2006, schools will continue to experience fast change, and I might predict that the way schools teach later on in the future might look vastly different from the ways we remember it.

As said, the world is moving at a fast pace with trends changing quickly, and the ways in which digital art works, I feel like, gets impacted by that. An example of how fast visual images catch one’s attention is how on social media or youtube, people decide on reading further or clicking on the video based on their interpretation after seeing the image available. Therefore, knowing how visual literacy works and using it on your behalf would be a useful skill with the world today. A different scenario is of people photoshopping or altering images or videos in a way that is to their advantage and tricks the audience. It’s hard to tell for those who don’t look with caution or are unaware of this fact, and this creates an environment where it is harder to believe in the things you see with your own eyes (personal intake).

As there is more and more access to visual imagery in our everyday lives, would someone have the skill to interpret and encode visual information without them being consciously aware of them doing so? Hopefully the teachings on visual literacy will help them become aware of their skills and use it the best. Overall, there is so much more to digital art than I thought before I had taken this class, and it makes me open my eyes to more art I am surrounded by.