Disciplines
Educational Sciences (50%); Arts (50%)
Keywords
Poor Image,
Digital Visual Literacy,
Poor Image Art Education,
Kunstdidaktik,
Postdigitalität,
Kultur der Digitalität
Abstract
Digital images are ubiquitous. We produce and consume them like never before. With the
advent of internet-enabled mobile devices, the high-quality rich image has transformed
into the low-resolution digital copy, which circulates, is edited, and is multiplied on the web.
Building on the concept of the poor image, coined by artist Hito Steyerl in 2009, Helena
Schmidt analyzes post-digital contemporary images regarding their use, reflection, and
potential in art education. The multi-perspective history of development from the poor
image to poor images thus provides fertile ground for a future-oriented didactics of
digitality.