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2018
What is an icon? This seminar looks at the modes of operation and limits of a very common type of sign. Perspectives from art history, semiotics and historical media theory allow us to broaden our understanding for the status of pictorial signs and question their claim to be universally understood. From Charles Sanders Peirce’s foundational definition to Otto Neurath’s efforts to create an international picture language and the speculative experiments of so-called “nuclear semiotics”, to today’s applications in computer graphics and the emergence of a new, dynamic type of image on the margins of image and sign – the focus of the seminar is not so much on the problems of theoretical demarcation of the concept, but on the political and societal questions that are posed throughout the history of the “icon”.
There has been something of a 'visual turn' in both contemporary theology and philosophy and part of that turn has been the recovery or reassessment of the iconology that has been present in the Christian East for some time. This has meant a recovery of the ecclesial icon and new explorations of its relevance for theology and visual theory today. Yet the icon is more than the historical precursor to subsequent arts. For Christians, it is the image par excellence—an image set apart. In what follows I will briefly discuss how three thinkers, Cornelia Tsakiridou, Pavel Florensky, and Jean-Luc Marion show in similar and dissimilar ways how it is that the icon enjoys the status of being the "exemplary image."
Information Design International Conference Proceedings
Darras, B. (2005) Semiotic of visual signs and information design2005 •
The following study is part of a more general project, called " Images Analyses " , which includes a web site and a collection of books developed and edited by the Images and Cognitions Research Centre (University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne). This semiotic study has two main purposes: the first objective is the systematic study of international visual communication signs; the second is methodological and tries to show the complementary efficiency of various semiotic methods: reductionism, on the one hand and interactionism, on the other. The signs taken into consideration for this analysis are pictograms of men and women commonly used to indicate human actions and to identify public spaces characterised by gender distinction. The study begins by exploring an international collection of these male and female signs and by analyzing the constants and variables belonging to the system that they constitute. The study continues with a cognitive semiotic approach exploring the processes of information maximisation and ambiguity minimisation. Subsequently, a poietic semiotic approach attempts to extract a model of the influences of the various sign systems that are active during the information design process (cooperation and inter-semiotic competition). A pragmatic semiotic approach allows us to place the signs in their environments according to the actions that take place there. It focuses in particular on analysing signs referring to children and disabled people. The study is completed by a social and semiotic critique intended to show the contribution of these signs to the social and cultural construction of male and female identities and social roles. Initial issues This study about pictograms representing human beings has initially been inspired by the book by Alain Etchegoyen: Eloge de la Féminité (Praise of the Femininity) and notably by this sentence: '[…] everything that is common is of species; everything that is different is of sex.' (Etchegoyen, 1997, p. 119) Of all differences, that of sexual morphology constitute the maximum differences between human beings, but because of the social rules that govern the exhibition and dissimulation of the various parts of the body, rules that are integrated under the different forms of decency and modesty, it is precisely these attributes that cannot be publicly exhibited and seen. The main issue of this article can be formulated as follows: how can sex, a sign that cannot be shown, manage to make itself seen? We will try to answer this question by discussing, both in a successive and complementary manner, the organization of existing signs, then we will study the signs in their cognitive, creative, pragmatic and social operating modes. Figure 1 1 Version française augmentée in : Darras, B. (2008). Sémiotiques des signes visuels et du design de l'information. In Bernard Darras (Dir.) , Images et sémiotique 2. Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne.
Carte semiotiche
Images Making Sign. Ways and Practices of Diagrammatic Representation in the Informational Images • Carte semiotiche 2014 Call for Papers2014 •
Pictures at the microscope, flow charts, technical illustrations, maps, diagrams. All these visual objects are more and more present in both the media scene and the everyday life, due to the need to master, from a cognitive and visual point of view, the complexity of the contemporary world, overwhelmed by data and information. Different visual objects that find a common point in their being “informational images” – as Elkins defined them –, images that convey information and represent concepts and relations. Contributions can develop the topic of diagrammatic representation with respect to different visual objects (scientific and artistic images, data and information visualizations, digital images) and different approaches (semiotics of arts, culture, and scientific text; anthropology and image theory; art history and art theory; history and sociology of science; communication and information design; media studies). The aim is to foster the dialogue among different disciplines and analytical perspectives on the modes of signification of such visual objects. Papers in English, French, and Italian. Length: max. 40.000 characters (8000 words) Deadline for contribution: 20 June 2014 End of reviewing process: 30 July 2014 Expected date of release: October 2014 The Editorial Board invites you to send an abstract with a proposal of contribution of 2000 characters (400 words) in English, French, Italian (please a short bibliography attached) by 10 January 2014 to the following addresses: - valentina.manchia@gmail.com (Valentina Manchia, issue editor) - cartesemiotiche@gmail.com
The symbol related problems are developed in the subsequent articles of this publication. In the following texts the reader finds a number of different perspectives, addressing symbol as a specific – using Charles Peirce’s phrase – iconic sign present in different areas of public life; a particular arrangement of open space and closed space; a complex form of community existence of ethnic and cultural groups – increasingly present in the discourse on postmodern society. Symbols are also presented as gestures, actions, persons. Diversity of symbols explored by the authors in different fields of culture: architecture, literature, shamanism, politics, theology, proves that symbol still constitutes important feature of our lives. We look at how various forms and places are being picked by symbols for their existence and functioning in the broadly defined postmodern culture. From the editors: Monika Banaś and Elżbieta Wiącek
Public Journal of Semiotics
Icons and metaphors in visual communication: The relevance of Peirce's theory of iconicity for the analysis of visual communication2023 •
In this paper we adopt Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of iconicity to analyse pictural communication. While visual semiotics has a well-developed structural school, the concepts of visual semiotics stemming from Peirce's pragmatic sign theory are often overlooked. The specific purpose of this study is to explore the semiotics of visual signs, exemplified by two prominent pictures of former US President Donald Trump. We argue that Peirce's semiotic framework for iconicity in visual signs (the image, the diagram, and the metaphor) offers a useful framework for discussing how the meaning of visual signs is motivated. On this basis, we propose that Peirce's concept of hypoicons provides us with a richer understanding of how visual signs acquire meaning and how their interpretation varies across cultural habits, and collateral experience.
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