Artapp is aimed at building a didactical path through the relationship between images, both from an iconological and a linguistic point of view, both still and moving images of any type, in order to allow students to acquire further skills around art and film history, and new tools for understanding and analyzing both still and moving images.

How do we read images and how do we learn to do it? This section looks at the underlying values implicit in all visual images and how students can learn to appreciate the modes in which meaning is constructed in all visual media. The Studio focuses on ways in which students can develop skills in the interpretation and the construction of visual meaning within the digital environment.

The construction of the moving film image refers to the framing and mise-en-scène (as seen in Studio 1) in a moving image that in turn relates to still images. It is not only these references, but also intertextual relationships themselves which continually problematise the idea of the ‘image’. At the same time, we need to consider the purpose of images, to look beyond the ‘single parts’ and see how one type of image might relate to another.

The activities in this Studio encourage students to come to terms with the ways in which meanings are created in, and, via images, how the purpose of the images affect the ways in which meanings, representation and ideologies are both created and communicated.  It encourages students to express their understanding and vision of images in ways that use digital media and apps. 

The studio encourages students to develop their own critical autonomy so that their own understanding, expectation and consumption of images in their many forms may become more informed and critical – and also pleasurable. In short, it helps students to develop reflective practices that they can apply to both their own work and the work of others.

ArtApp is divided into tasks and apps; tasks require students to think and discuss whilst apps are interactive exercises. Tasks lead into work on apps but are stand-alone (as part of the developmental process) and thus need their own page/section.

Through this approach, the app is structured as a pathway, a sort of storytelling that comes from the minimum basis of the aesthetics and sociology of images and through art goes to moving images.