Deck 6: How Disciplines Look at Images

Question 1

According to Stephen Sanchagrin, which of the following periods saw the first "advanced battlefield visualizations?"

A) the Renaissance
B) the dark ages
C) the prehistoric and ancient period
D) the modern period

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Computational probability maps are sometimes referred to as _______________.

A) algorithmics
B) blobology
C) geo-mathematics
D) none of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What is another name for the data wall developed by the U.S. Navy?

A) data structure
B) information structure
C) information wall
D) data undercurrent

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The combination of various modes and technologies of information into integrated video streams for the military is referred to as battlefield visualizations.

Question 5

Who developed the rapatronic camera?

A) Susan Sontag
B) Jasper Johns
C) Harold Edgerton
D) Derek Gregory

Question 6

Most of the published work on medical imaging is not interpretive, but highly ___________.

A) technical
B) personal
C) simulated
D) psychological

Question 7

Which system can help doctors in diagnosing skin cancers by using algorithms and databanks of images?

A) fMRI
B) MRI
C) CBIR
D) KMFDM

Question 8

Brain shift refers to the difficulty of aligning the MR images produced before a brain operation with the appearance of the cortex once the surgery has begun.

Question 9

One danger in the literature surrounding PET scans are comparisons that can change people's ideas about their ______________.

A) normalcy
B) minds
C) brains
D) all of the above

Question 10

Which term is used to describe the way objects are brought into courtrooms as if they could speak for themselves?

A) intentionality
B) prosopopoeial
C) prosopagnosia
D) indexicality

Question 11

In the age of simulations and digital images, it is difficult to legally define what it means to ____________.

A) witness
B) testify
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b

Question 12

The first high-profile trial in the U.S. that turned on the interpretation of video was ___________________.

A) the O.J. Simpson trial
B) the Jeffrey Dahmer trial
C) the Citizen's United trial
D) the Rodney King trial

Question 13

Which historian called the first attempts, or initial thoughts of artists "primi pensieri?"

A) Peter Galison
B) Marc Shorten
C) Eadweard Muybridge
D) Charles De Tolnay

Question 14

One thing that differs widely between images in the humanities and scientific images is how _________________ are utilized.

A) image sizes
B) font and presentation
C) captions
D) layouts

Question 15

The consideration on a single image is an example of weak formal analysis because it allows the student to focus entirely on the visible properties of the image.

Question 16

In effect, the act of ___________ is a kind of dissective seeing that both renders and rends the images, displaying it in parts.

A) administering images
B) gradient analysis
C) formal analysis
D) using Powerpoint

Question 17

Comparative seeing was present as far back as the 18^th century in classical ___________.

A) geometry
B) archaeology
C) epistemology
D) art history
E) all of the above

Question 18

Heinrich Wolfflin's main contribution to art history was a method he called _____________.

A) formal seeing
B) formal formation
C) optical analysis
D) style analysis

Question 19

One theme of chapter 23 is how the military attempts to combine various data sources into integrated _______.

Question 20

An intermediate between direct combat and wireless control by the military is the _______.

Question 21

The widespread application and popularization of neuroimaging in the 1990's led the U.S. Government to declare it the "Decade of _______."

Question 22

The logical consequence of methodical difficulties in the interpretation of neuroimaging has led to the establishment of the discipline of _______.

Question 23

Images in medical technology aren't only _______ or _______ : they are both.

Question 24

In the digital age, it is legally difficult to define what it means to "witness" in relation to the _______ Clause of the _______ Amendment.

Question 25

Hans Gumbrecht's theory of _______ described the gradual erosion of presence in favor of dematerialized images.

Question 26

Literary theorists have taken an interest in the language of the law since the work of _______ in the 1970's.

Question 27

Scientific images are normally intended to communicate _______ or _______ information.

Question 28

Often associated with modernist art, _______ reflects the belief that the elements of an image that are apprehensible to the senses hold the work's meaning.

Question 29

What are two ways that the military has demonstrated its skepticism about the reliance on vision?

Question 30

In what ways do NLOS missiles and other guided aircraft produce historically unprecedented images and experiences?

Question 31

Although military images have intricate contexts, in what ways are they not decisive evidence of proof?

Question 32

In what ways can neuroimaging change people's ideas of their normalcy?

Question 33

What are some of the tools for seeing that are now available to surgeons who work with robotics, and instruments like the DaVinci machine?

Question 34

Discuss the difficulties that now face lawyers in the age of digital simulations, amateur video documentation, and surveillance.

Question 35

Discuss the relationship between affect theory, and images of torture and execution. What do you think is an appropriate way to view these kinds of images?

Question 36

Define "vampire seeing" and what it means in the field of science. How could this idea be applied within the humanities?

Question 37

What did Peter Galison mean when writing about the difference between "image tradition" and "logic tradition?" Do you think this is applicable to the world of images we encounter today?

Question 38

In what ways are scientific images "working objects?"

Question 39

Describe the benefits and shortcomings of "formal analysis." How does this fit into your own experiences in education?

Question 40

Do you agree with the author's stance that art history is a "discipline invested in administering" images? Why, or why not?