Every day this week, Associate Professor Michael Gibson and Assistant Professor Keith Owens, who both teach communication design in UNT’s Department of Design, will address a different question related to thinking critically about what we absorb visually. Technology brings us Facebook and You Tube, allows us to connect in an instant with people all over [...]

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6/10th of a Second, Nora Herting 2008

In 2004, artist Nora Herting came across a statistic in Harper’s magazine that the average museum patron spends just 6/10th of a second on each work of art during a visit to a museum. This information [...]

How does visual literacy relate to how we interpret the images we see daily?
Depending on which of a multitude of sources we could cite, most people in so–called developed modern societies encounter between 3,000 and 4,500 visual messages every day. Between half-and two-thirds of these are transmitted to us through television screens or computer monitors, [...]

Click on the photo above. Caution to parents: This ever-expanding work of art uses a computer program to draw thousands of words and images a day from blogs around the world. It is possible to encounter images unsuitable for children.
We Feel Fine, the collaborative work of Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, is a carefully [...]

Every day this week, Associate Professor Michael Gibson and Assistant Professor Keith Owens, who both teach communication design in UNT’s Department of Design, will address a different question related to thinking critically about what we absorb visually. Technology brings us Facebook and You Tube, allows us to connect in an instant with people all [...]

Here’s a list of all the winners of the 24-Hour Film Race and a selection of their work. Each team had one day to complete their 5-minute video. The theme for this year’s race was “twist of fate.” The prop: a key. The location: anywhere a sport is played. And all had to include [...]

David Okamoto is a content production manager at Yahoo in Dallas and a previous contributor to Rolling Stone, ICE magazine and the Dallas Morning News.
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In Erykah Badu’s dazzling music video for “Honey” — which can be found here — the Dallas-based singer is seen weaving through the aisles of [...]

Welcome to KERA’s new Arts+Culture blog!

KERA, a major public broadcasting producer and the leading public radio and television station for North Texas, is strengthening its online presence through the launch of a new blog that will focus on artistic and cultural issues both in North Texas and across the world.
The Arts+Culture Blog aims to create [...]