Tracing Behind the Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Visual Literacy (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 133)

Tracing Behind the Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Visual Literacy, discusses how our relationship to images, collectively and individually, is constantly shifting, as we adapt to the evolving image economy of our increasingly screen-based world. This volume offers pedagogies, analyses and strategies for developing visual literacy across education and industry.

The language of images embodies highly complex and nuanced statements and readings, the ability to invent and reinvent, it is bursting with opportunities to be lyrical, satirical, rhetorical, to unravel meanings, and to pose as many questions as it answers. It is a language of investigation and experimentation, it both constructs and shatters cultural expectations, and is constantly and rapidly transforming as forced by current social and political climates.

Julia Lane is a PhD candidate at Edith Cowan University, working across the disciplines of design, visual arts and cultural studies. She is a published author and illustrator, currently exploring feminine monsters in graphic culture.