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Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.64,0:00:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve been involved in visuals all my life, \Nso have you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.48,0:00:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was brought to my attention pretty early:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.52,0:00:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father practiced as an architect.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.96,0:00:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, quite early on, I learned the difference \Nbetween a segmental and a triangular pediment,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.20,0:00:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gables, a mansard roof.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.50,0:00:34.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was thirteen, an aunt of mine \Nsent me an art postcard for my birthday
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.71,0:00:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she said, "I'll send you one a month \Nif you'd like to collect them."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.02,0:00:45.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I started collecting, \Nshe slowed down sending.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.19,0:00:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to go to art classes \Nat the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.24,0:00:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Dr. James Wright, the Director,\Nwho is an enthusiast for artworks.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.97,0:01:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by the time I went to college \NI had 5,000 postcards.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.02,0:01:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, think about a postcard; \Nit's not like ripping things out of a book,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.00,0:01:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or slides or anything, \Nthey are all the same size,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.71,0:01:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that's a manipulation. \NThe shape, the size is made the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.13,0:01:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, you can take 40 Rembrandts \Nand put them all on a table,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.39,0:01:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can write the dates of them all, \Nand you can see the progression
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.61,0:01:21.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of an artist's career \Nright in front of your eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.11,0:01:25.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The imaginative process is something \Nthat happens with our eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.91,0:01:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our actual eyes seeing, \Nand the eyes of our minds:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.40,0:01:38.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the blind Milton,\Nable to create such visual poems.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.11,0:01:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do we really see? \NWhy do we use the word visionary?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.76,0:01:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Visionary: farsighted. Well, the issue is that \Neverything is an image.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.06,0:01:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything we see is an image.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.26,0:02:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see it binocularly and with a retina, \Nit’s upside down,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.67,0:02:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,connecting to our optic nerve, \Nto our brain cortex.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.49,0:02:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see millions of things every day,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.41,0:02:16.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but unless we connect\Ncognition and memory,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.85,0:02:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don’t remember what we see.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.03,0:02:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, visual literacy, what is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.60,0:02:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s the ability to construct \Nmeaning from images.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.16,0:02:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not a skill; it uses skills as a toolbox.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.12,0:02:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a form of critical thinking \Nthat enhances your intellectual capacity.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.42,0:02:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not a new concept.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.32,0:02:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1969, the International Visual Literacy Association \Nwas established.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.40,0:02:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has an annual conference; it has a journal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.46,0:03:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But something happened on the way \Nfrom there to here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.80,0:03:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we kind of lost visual literacy \Namid visual studies, and visual culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.34,0:03:15.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and visual communications, and visual graphics.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.22,0:03:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what’s necessary now, \Nsurely it seems to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.33,0:03:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we integrate, that we re-integrate \Nthe capacity of our senses.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.04,0:03:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And why? Because we are now in the digital age.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.59,0:03:33.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am so excited for college and university students \Nall over the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.75,0:03:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In December 1991, the World Wide Web went live.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.61,0:03:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means that eighteen-year-olds \Ngoing to college everywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.96,0:03:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are digital natives and I am one \Nof the before-and-after people.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.68,0:03:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know what it was like before \Nand I know what it is like after.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.49,0:04:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m one of what you might call \Nthe Gutenberg people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.28,0:04:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine what it was like, \Nyou had all these illuminated manuscripts
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.05,0:04:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\Nand along they came and said,\N“Here’s a book; we got hundreds more of them!”?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.62,0:04:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s fascinating, in the near-Eastern world \Nyou have this great invention
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.98,0:04:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of cuneiform writing and it took us 2,500 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.88,0:04:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether in Korea or in Germany, \Nto develop a printing type
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.59,0:04:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would change everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.11,0:04:35.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it took us only another 500 years
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.31,0:04:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get to where we are now: the digital age.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.64,0:04:48.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, what indeed was visual literacy like \Nin a pre-literate past?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.77,0:04:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We understand sign language \Nbefore we understand the printed word.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.72,0:05:00.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you think about those cave paintings \Nin the Dordogne region of France,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.93,0:05:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what were people painting?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.73,0:05:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are no figures in them; \Nthey were looking out,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.70,0:05:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were looking out \Nat the landscape and at the animals.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.33,0:05:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were looking out at the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.67,0:05:20.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you think of those wonderful \Nstained-glass windows
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.73,0:05:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we hardly give time to now, \Nbut people read one pane after the other,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.58,0:05:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the entire story.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.68,0:05:33.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We fast-forward to the graphic novel, \Nto cartoons.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.74,0:05:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need integration now of text and image.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.48,0:05:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve been finding our text scholars, \Nthey say, “Everything’s a text.”
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.07,0:05:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I’m equally imperious because I’m saying,\N“Everything’s an image.”
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.72,0:05:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is everything’s an image and it's a text.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.16,0:05:57.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Visual literacy is multi-modal, it’s multi-disciplinary,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.100,0:06:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s interdisciplinary and it’s collaborative.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.06,0:06:04.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s actually a universal language.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.100,0:06:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now think about universal languages: \Ndance, mime – universal languages.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.22,0:06:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Visuals: universal language. \NYou don’t have to know Japanese or Gaelic or Polish.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.84,0:06:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can understand visuals all over the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.82,0:06:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if that’s the case that we can enhance \Nglobal understanding with visuals,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.94,0:06:33.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is it we are doing to learn \Nhow to really see visually?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.91,0:06:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we were babies, we took in everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.40,0:06:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much so that we actually used up brain cells.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.30,0:06:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today we use them up for different reasons.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.80,0:06:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We learn the difference between \Nmarked and unmarked space.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.38,0:06:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine the difference \Nbetween one face and another?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.52,0:06:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basically they all look the same! \NSo, how did we learn the difference?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.00,0:07:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let’s try a little game.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.93,0:07:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clifford Geertz, the great anthropologist \Nin the interpretation of cultures,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.58,0:07:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he quotes a story which is the story of the wink. \NSo let’s try it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.18,0:07:13.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People at home looking in the mirror, \Nyou're looking at me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.35,0:07:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, what I want you to do is twitch your eye. \NGo on, twitch.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.93,0:07:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, just wink.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.18,0:07:28.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I want you to wink conspiratorially.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.73,0:07:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Try winking romantically.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.51,0:07:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A wink can have multiple meanings
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.20,0:07:42.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and means different things in different cultures.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.94,0:07:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing about the visual is \N90% of all the information
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.05,0:07:54.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we take in from the world we take in visually.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.57,0:08:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I’m not saying that that makes that 90% \Nmore important than the 10% that isn’t taken in visually,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.24,0:08:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of course those who cannot see \Nlearn to enhance those powers of the other senses.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.82,0:08:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I am noting the percentage; \Na full 30% of the brain cortex is given over to vision.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.18,0:08:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We actually read non-text 60,000 times faster \Nthan we can read text.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.60,0:08:31.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I’d like to advocate \Nis a little bit of slow-looking.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.100,0:08:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’d like all of us to be able to look \Nso that we would really, really see,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.61,0:08:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like we hear \Nso we could really be listening. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.59,0:08:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we need to put some order \Non our chaos
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.31,0:08:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we like the idea of harmony \Namong our disharmony.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.13,0:09:03.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here’s a method for slow-looking; you can all use this \Nanywhere – see this thing here?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.83,0:09:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at it. When you’ve actually looked at it, \Nyou can begin to see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.72,0:09:19.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you see it, \Nthen you can begin to describe it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.39,0:09:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quite difficult.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.57,0:09:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you can describe it, \Nthen you can begin to analyze it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.100,0:09:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What’s it made of, for example?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.56,0:09:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And only after looking, and seeing, \Nand describing, and analyzing,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.48,0:09:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can you begin to interpret it, \Nto construct meaning from it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.44,0:09:49.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how much do we look at \Nwhere we don’t engage that process?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.71,0:09:55.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we actually need is the alphabet \Nand the grammar of visual literacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.37,0:10:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve worked all my life in art museums – \Nmost of it anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.59,0:10:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I actually believe in the elements \Nand principles of art.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.19,0:10:16.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a time we all used to know them. \NHere’s a little painting I painted earlier.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.17,0:10:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How is it that we know digits and we know letters, \Nbut we don’t know what ways to approach that?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.94,0:10:25.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a time we would've.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.21,0:10:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could begin to talk about \Nthat in terms of its shape, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.69,0:10:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its form, and its volume,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.82,0:10:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its line, and its composition,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.57,0:10:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its color, its rhythm, its pattern, \Nits movement, its composition,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.86,0:10:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its unity, its value, its hue, its intensity… \Nand so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.72,0:11:00.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A visually literate person can read \Nand write visual language,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.89,0:11:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can encode and decode visual language.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.68,0:11:10.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know there’s lots of help available, \Nespecially with the Internet.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.11,0:11:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s a fantastic thing on the Internet, \Nyou can all look it up,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.18,0:11:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s called The Periodic Table \Nof Visualization Elements.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.32,0:11:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No matter what subject you’re using, \Nyou can go and look at that.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.26,0:11:22.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's fantastic, puts Mr. Tufte and all the people \N
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.63,0:11:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who’ve worked on visualization \Ninto full focus for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.09,0:11:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What visual literacy does –
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.71,0:11:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it helps us with classification, \Nthat’s what I learned with my postcards,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.12,0:11:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the similarities and the differences \Nbetween things.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.44,0:11:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stars,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.77,0:11:43.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cells,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.03,0:11:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flowers, trees;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.07,0:11:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you walk out on the green \Nand all those poor trees are saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.62,0:11:52.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“They didn’t notice me!”
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.11,0:11:55.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every one different: photographs.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.77,0:12:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the ways throughout curriculum \Nthat we engage the visual.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.76,0:12:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two towers and a plane…\Nthe power of visual images.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.10,0:12:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you feel your response \Nas I evoked that image?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.27,0:12:21.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Visual images have the power \Nto bring our senses together simultaneously
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.45,0:12:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to impact viscerally our emotions.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.36,0:12:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s a book called Crashing Through.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.25,0:12:34.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s an incredible story.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.49,0:12:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s about a man called Mike May.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.05,0:12:43.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had sight until he was three. \NHe lost it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.19,0:12:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was in a chemical explosion, \Nso, when he was forty-three,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.64,0:12:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through stem cell technology, \Nhis sight was recovered.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.16,0:12:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you possibly imagine
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.80,0:13:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it would be like to find that sight again
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.42,0:13:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to begin to negotiate the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.56,0:13:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Close your eyes: go on, close your eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.67,0:13:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What color is my tie? \NHow would you describe me?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.94,0:13:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What number is on the side of the, \NI hope, the racing car?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.14,0:13:21.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope you noticed.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.37,0:13:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was on the top of the shelves, \Non the cases?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.94,0:13:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Open your eyes. OPEN your eyes!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.82,0:13:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The visual is learned before the verbal.\NWe then start to learn digits and letters.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.72,0:13:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is it that we study and are tested \Nfor textual literacy
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.48,0:13:51.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for computer literacy, \Nbut not for visual literacy?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.17,0:13:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to train our visual capacity.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.35,0:14:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to train our ability \Nto construct meaning from images.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.98,0:14:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we actually need is leadership \Nthat recognizes that visual literacy
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.26,0:14:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is needed in the curriculum, \Nacross the curriculum.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.18,0:14:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need a visual literacy curriculum.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.74,0:14:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don’t mean what generally happens \Nin art education,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.77,0:14:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean across the whole curriculum.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.11,0:14:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did it happen that we didn’t train everybody \Nto be visually literate?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.99,0:14:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’d like us to be able to use our greatest gifts \Nas fully as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.13,0:14:45.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’d like us to recognize that 90% of what \Nwe take in in the world, we take in visually.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.19,0:14:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’d like us to really think about \Nhow extraordinary it is to be in the digital age.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.90,0:14:54.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How exciting!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.41,0:14:58.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of years pass \Nand then suddenly something happens
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.14,0:15:03.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that really has changed everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.86,0:15:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we have something that is capable of \Nenhancing our communication
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.17,0:15:12.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across the entire world, \Nsomething truly universal,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.81,0:15:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we have something \Nthat can truly promote communication,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.18,0:15:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we have something in visuals \Nthat can quite simply change your life,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.94,0:15:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can change the way that you live, \Nas we walk out of our house,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.33,0:15:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we walk out into the world \Nand start to look, and see,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.83,0:15:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and describe, and analyze, and interpret.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.81,0:15:50.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My simple case: visual literacy, we need it.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.92,0:15:53.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enjoy your life. Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.77,0:15:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)