Viz Cult Meeting, Thursday, Sept. 30th 4:15, Arts West

Hi Everyone,   

If you are receiving this email you are either a devotee of Viz Cult, or you requested to be added to our list-serv, or someone told me to add you to our list-serv, or you seem like you might like visual culture so I added you myself.  

This is a reminder of our “meeting” this Thursday afternoon at 4:15 in Arts West.  Let’s meet in the lobby, but we’ll probably end up Room 126.  I used scare quotes around meeting because, really, what does anything actually “mean”, and because it’s more of a gathering than a meeting.  We will have wine, cheese, fruit and chocolate (or something of the that ilk) and we will introduce ourselves as consumers, producers, historians and “analysists” of visual culture (see now I can’t be stopped with the scare quotes). 

I will also take suggestions at this meeting for our next “text”.  This can be an actual essay, a work of art, film, website, anything that you think deserves our attention as we spend this year figuring out what viz cult @ elon should be.  I have LOTS of ideas, so you will want to bring ideas simply to stop me from getting my way!   In addition to introducing ourselves, I’d like us to start considering the following questions:   

Do we want to consider a Viz Cult curriculum?  

Do we want to consider promoting clusters of classes?  Even if that’s not something that Elon will adopt as part of the GST review, it’s something we could promote among interested students. 

Should we propose a classroom design template for visual pedagogy? 

Do we want to sit in the corner, wear a beret, drink wine and scoff at what’s not happening?  Well, yeah.  

Anyway, please join us Thursday.  

Bring your brains and eyeballs and let’s get started.  Questions or concerns?  Drop me an “electronic mail”  (egatti@elon.edu)