Presented by Stephanie Beene at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 3rd - April 6th, 2013, in Providence, Rhode Island.

1. Visual Literacy:
Critical Inquiry for Today’s World
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3. The Science

4. • 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

5. • 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?
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7. Christoph Niemann
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8. Christoph Nieman
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9. Christoph Niemann
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11. Lewis & Clark College:
• Small
• Liberal arts
• Interdisciplinary research

12. Pedagogy & Practice
Iterative
Time-intensive
Collaborative
Integrative
Personal
Experimental