Light/shadow
The process of moving something visible into verbal?
What is Ekphrasis?
This text brought warns us against certainty.
What is H.G. Well's "Country of the Blind?"
This theorist shows us that visibility entraps us and provokes a kind of voyeurism and possession
Who is Foucault?
This film prompts us to think of the escapist fantasy of living in film.
What is the Wizard of Oz?
This color is the color of incompletion, instability, distance, and hospitality.
Blue
This 17th/18th century movement emphasized that reason (not God) as the way to understand the universe.
What is the Enlightenment?
This author has to figure out how to write in the absence of the world right in front of him and gains knowledge after being blind.
Who is Jorge Luis Borges?
Black shares a semantic space with this other term from the course
What is invisibility?
This theory is a discursive framework to bring systems of order onto the wild universe.
What is color theory?
In this film, a child becomes and emblem of the color blue.
What is Three Colors Blue?
This artist suggests that life is a walking shadow
Who is William Kentridge?
This artist writes about folds as topographical and in his photographs draws parallels between the folds of curtains imitate a valley's peaks in DaVinci's drawings.
Who is Teju Cole?
This structure is composed of a watchtower in the middle and surrounded by prisoner's cells in a circular formation
What is the panopticon?
Color entraps this character and she falls pray to the narcotic effects of color?
Who is Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz?
This artist is invested in environments that are glacial and nocturnal.
Who Lorna Simpson?
This movement use light to create color and form--dematerializing the art object itself.
What is the Light and Space Movement?
This author interrogates how someone's blindness creates someone else's invisibility.
Who is Ralph Ellison? (Invisible Man)
Professor Hornby defines this term as "that can be seen beyond what is visible; that by its nature is constructed as an excessive object of sight; exposed."
What is hypervisibility?
This film highlights that color can take over the subject and that racial categories are also absorbent.
What is "Toll of the Sea?"
In the film Three Colors Blue, this feeling internalizes the source of absence, never ends, and does not allow for recuperation.
What is melancholia?
This artist stated "I don't know if I believe in art, I believe in light"
Who is James Turrell?
Trinh Minh Ha that these are the three kind of invisbility.
What is the inability to see what's coming, censorship, and an absent presence?
This artist photographs (out of focus) magazine images of famous Black woman and demands us to think of invisibility and visibility and how Blackness remains in these photographs.
Who is Carrie Mae Weems?
These are colors made by absorbing parts of the spectrum (begins with white and end in black)
What are subtractive primary colors?
This kind of ice is a metaphor for not being able to see what the danger is in front of you.
What is black ice?