Art as a communication code: representation and perception.
This visual code organizes the layout of an image and helps create balance and hierarchy.
What is composition code?
This art movement, led by Monet and Renoir, aimed to capture light and fleeting moments.
What is Impressionism?
This term refers to a renewed focus on emotion and bodily experience in cultural studies.
What is the affective turn?
This term refers to art created with awareness of the internet and its cultural effects.
What is Post-Internet Art?
According to Peirce, this type of sign resembles what it represents.
What is an icon?
This visual code analyzes clothing in an image to reveal information about identity, social class, geography, or cultural values.
What is garment code?
This movement challenged traditional forms with abstraction, collage, and experimentation.
What is the avant-garde?
In this theoretical shift, images are seen not just as representations but as producers of _______.
What is affect/emotion?
Name one artist associated with Post-Internet Art.
Who is Marisa Olson / Katja Novitskova / Petra Cortright / Amalia Ulman?
In semiotics, a symbol is defined by this kind of relationship with its object.
What is arbitrary or learned?
Jean Baudrillard used this concept to describe a world where representations no longer refer to a real object but only to other representations—copies without originals.
What is simulacra? (or: What are copies without originals?)
This is the term for the rejection of realistic representation in favor of expressive or conceptual forms.
What is the rupture of representation?
In affective image analysis, emotions are not interpreted in isolation. The ______context—shaped by history, power, and identity—is essential to understanding how images affect us.
What is the geopolitical and socio-cultural context of the images?
This strategy, widely used in Post-Internet Art, involves reusing existing images, memes, or digital content to create new meanings or critique culture.
What is appropriation?
In semiotics, Roland Barthes proposes this term that refers to the cultural or emotional meanings that a sign carries beyond its literal or primary definition.
What is connotation?
This term refers to the act of standing in for something—images, words, and symbols that depict or evoke aspects of the world.
What is representation?
Name one way Cubism “ruptured” traditional linear perspective.
What is showing multiple viewpoints simultaneously?
Sara Ahmed argues that emotions “stick” to bodies, words, and images, shaping how we relate to others and to the world. This term describes how affect moves collectively through space, media, and norms.
What is social affect?
In Post-Internet Art, viewers are often invited to remix, comment, or interact with the work. This active involvement blurs the line between creator and audience.
What is participation?
This branch of philosophy studies how we interpret beauty, taste, and the meaning of art.
What is aesthetics?
Visual representation shapes our understanding of concepts like beauty, truth, identity, and power. This is why studying representation is essential for developing this critical skill.
What is image literacy?
This abstract art movement, founded by Kazimir Malevich, focused on pure geometric forms and spiritual expression, rejecting representation entirely.
What is Suprematism?
The affective turn critiques which traditional assumption about image interpretation?
What is the dominance of rational/logocentric analysis?
Post-Internet artists often explore how we construct and perform ourselves online through profiles, avatars, filters, and curated content. This concept refers to the self as shaped by digital presence.
What is digital identity?
This term refers to art or imagery that is overly sentimental, mass-produced, or considered to lack serious aesthetic value—yet it often reveals much about popular taste and cultural ideology.
What is kitsch?