Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Arts Festival marked the half-way point in its thirteenth season yesterday by closing one show of visual wares and opening a second. For the two weeks past, those brightly colored tents in the Public Garden have housed a collection of paintings and sculpture furnished by local galleries, and for the two coming weeks they will hold some 180 works judged best of an open competition by the Festival Jury...
...trouble is that print is what McLuhan calls a "hot" medium of communication: sharp in definition, filled with data, exclusively visual and verbal, but (a key and debatable point) psychologically damaging and low in audience participation. Other hot media by McLuhan's rules are photography, movies, competitive spectator sports and radio. Hot media make men think logically and independently, instead of naturally, "mythically" and communally. This is bad. What McLuhan likes are cool media. These are fuzzy, low in information, but richly demanding on the audience to fill in what is missing. The telephone, modern painting, but pre-eminently...
...first official panel discussions of Modern France will be held from 4-6 p.m., July 7, in the Visual Arts Center. M. Duser, counselor of the French Embassy, M. Domenach, editor of Eprit, and Michele Fournier of the Bank of Indo-China and a member of the International Seminar, will participate...
...show a continuous flow of electrical signals, and Dr. White can communicate with them. When he rings a bell near the stump of a brain's auditory nerve, he gets an electrical reaction. When a needle carrying weak electric current touches the stump of the optic nerve, the visual part of the brain responds...
...Visual Dictation. Learners first mas ter short pronunciations of the five vowels (the a as in at, e as in pet), then some consonant sounds (p, t, s) to provide the components for a lot of words. Using what he calls "visual dictation," tapping the charts with a pointer, Dr. Gattegno lets students discover with delight that strings of sounds make words, then whole sentences, including such swinging examples as "Pat met on a mat a man as fat as Tim." The decipherability of language thus established, the drill moves on to tougher orthography: weigh, height, eye, diaphragm, for example...