Thinking. Visually. Together.

Albert Liau and David Morimoto

12:30 - 1:30 pm

UHall Lower Level

Artist and curator Deborah Davidson, biologist Albert Liau, and scientist, artist and activist David Morimoto

Visual Literacy Institute Fellows, Deborah Davidson and Albert Liau engaged with Professor David Morimoto, to explore ideas of visual literacy through the “lens” of patterns in nature. Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image. As infants, we learn to read images months before we become verbal and years before we attempt to become fluent in written language. From a young age, a great deal of educational emphasis is placed on identifying words and understanding their meanings. We also need to learn to identify, read, and understand images – to become literate in visual language – in order to participate effectively in our increasingly image-saturated culture.