Morophospace

“Humans have only been using reading and writing for a very short time in our history, so how else do we communicate?” (http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2060/1908) A written sentence has tremendous power, but in my opinion, only when meaning is explicit. Transliteracy, a view of literacy that encompasses all human sense must have the power to invoke imagination [...]

Semiotics, and Semiosis of a device to mediate information… The internet of things, how will a tree talk to us? Surly not with words, are they more intelligent that that? I guess DATA will be used, and how will we translate DATA? With image I’m sure, wouldn’t work another way! Words do become rubbish at [...]

Critical thinking requires an ability to question. Semiotics provide a methodology for critical thinking within the visual domain; production of a visual entity to question subjectivity (?). Subjectivity being perspective, feelings, beliefs, and desires.

“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably” (Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889 – 1951)

In response to the Culture show 30/1/2013… Critical Design, my training in design equipped me to answer, to solve problems, not create problems (or ask questions). Critical Design seems to me to be a product deindustrialisation and the condition of postmodernity. Industrialisation is/was a state of production, the role of design within the industrial era [...]

What mediates the constant flow of information, a device or an application? Without grammar, language (lets say English) would carry little meaning. So does this mean if we can locate the grammar of modality we can control mean making through Modality?

Gunther Kress “The crucial difference is that words are highly conven-tionalised entities, and only exist in that manner” “What is crucial is that if there is no word, then the possibility of representation and communication is ruled out. Only that which is worded can enter into communication; or else, that which is to be represented [...]

Week two continued my investigation of the apparent and the existent. Core course readings in metaphor and cyberculture, complemented by my own readings in Postmodern / Subculture, continued to engage my interset in, and identification of digital artifacts. This investigation has taken me from the identification of existent cultural artifacts represented visually in the digital [...]

What is unique in the digital domain? What is textural about the digital domain? Simply viewing an image on a screen is not unique! What is unique in the digital domain is (obviously) the ability to juxtapose media (MultiModal). It becomes a logical progression that cultural artifacts that define and represent culture move beyond the [...]