TEDxDartmouth, Brian Kennedy - Visual Literacy: Why We Need It

Taryn Simon, TED Talks

http://www.ted.com/talks/taryn_simon_the_stories_behind_the_bloodlines

Cameron Russell: Looks Aren't Everything

Cynthia Schneider: The Surprising Spread of Idol TV

Joseph Pine: What Consumers Want

TED Talks, Lauren Zalaznick: The Conscience of Television

TV executive Lauren Zalaznick thinks deeply about pop television. Sharing results of a bold study that tracks attitudes against TV ratings over five decades, she makes a case that television reflects who we truly are -- in ways we might not have expected.

Link here to listen on TED Talks.

JR, Inside Out Project

JR, Use Art To Turn The World Inside Out, March 2011.  Link here to watch video on TED Talks.

Why you should listen to him:

Working anonymously, pasting his giant images on buildings, trains, bridges, the often-guerrilla artist JR forces us to see each other. Traveling to distant, often dangerous places -- the slums of Kenya, the favelas of Brazil -- he infiltrates communities, befriending inhabitants and recruiting them as models and collaborators. He gets in his subjects’ faces with a 28mm wide-angle lens, resulting in portraits that are unguarded, funny, soulful, real, that capture the sprits of individuals who normally go unseen. The blown-up images pasted on urban surfaces – the sides of buildings, bridges, trains, buses, on rooftops -- confront and engage audiences where they least expect it. Images of Parisian thugs are pasted up in bourgeois neighborhoods; photos of Israelis and Palestinians are posted together on both sides of the walls that separate them.

JR's most recent project, "Women Are Heroes," depicts women "dealing with the effects of war, poverty, violence, and oppression” from Rio de Janeiro, Phnom Penh, Delhi and several African cities. And his TED Prize wish opens an even wider lens on the world -- asking us all to turn the world inside out. Visit insideoutproject.net ...

"I would like to bring art to improbable places, create projects so huge with the community that they are forced to ask themselves questions."

JR, Beaux Arts Magazine