Sumários

November 10

10 novembro 2026, 08:00 • Sheila Brannigan

We will: Look forward to Assessment 3

Assessment 4 Research-project written submission planning:

Organisation

-Paragraphs

-Linking/Transition

Referencing (all on e-learning in 'Assessment 4' section

November 6

6 novembro 2026, 08:00 • Sheila Brannigan

We will:

Look forward to Assessment 3 and give tips for speaking presentations

John Akomfrah’s Purple (2017-) View work and interview, reflect using Toolkit questions, discussion

Photography, Memory and the Punctum

5 novembro 2026, 15:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Roland Barthes, “Extracts from Camera Lucida,” pp. 19-30

Photography’s distinctive relationship with its referent and the reality of “what has been”; the roles of photographer, spectator and photographed subject; posing, self-representation and the transformation of the subject into an object; the distinction between studium and punctum; the subjective and affective experience of viewing photographs; family photography, memory and mourning; photography as a trace of absence and a reminder of mortality; the search for identity and truth through the Winter Garden Photograph.

AI-Generated Images and Deepfakes: Seeing, Believing and Doubting

3 novembro 2026, 15:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

The emergence of AI-generated images and deepfakes; visual-AI and the transition from photographic to synthetic representation; photographic indexicality, truth and evidence; the semiotics and aesthetics of synthetic images; realism, satire and visual misinformation; the role of familiar cultural narratives in making fabricated images appear credible; the circulation and interpretation of AI-generated images on digital platforms; visual, digital and algorithmic literacy in a post-photographic visual culture.

November 3

3 novembro 2026, 08:00 • Sheila Brannigan

We carried out assessment 2: a short written analysis of a provided image