Pictorial Turn

Vitanza, E5334, HyperText & Multimedia, Syllabus is a site for a graduate course on “Topics in Stylistics” where students have to read theory and do transcoding (ekphrasis both ways).

The course draws on the pictorial turn or picture theory of Mitchell – icons and logoi.

The course combines theory and multimedia development in an interesting way. The idea is not just to theorize about images of words and words of images, but to make them. Many of the projects are technically simple, but effective. He starts with Gifbuilder! – Great idea – just get them creating simple flipbook animations.