IDAT506- Synthesis

Reference: Bassnett, Susan. Translation Studies (New Accents). New York: Routledge, 2002. p.12: “translation involves the rendering of a source language(SL) text into target language (TL) so as to ensure that (1) the surface meaning of the two will be approximately similar and (2) the structures of the SL will be preserved as closely as...
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Reference: http://www.voyd.com/ttlg/textual/manovichtext.htm The Interface as a New Aeshetic Category by Lev Manovich ” the old dichotomies content – form and content – medium can be re-written as content – interface” “Many new media artworks have what can be called “an informational dimension,” the condition which they share with all new media objects. Their experience...
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Reference: Jorna, Rene J and Wezel, Wout van (1997) ‘Objects and the world metaphor: A semiotic engineering approach’, in Noth Winfried, eds. Semiotics of the Media: state of the Art, Projects, and Perspectives. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp.481-495 p.351: Ludwig Bauer’s (1988) -> “referentializing sign” designate the specific function of visual signs...
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Reference: Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Routledge, 1991. The Prose of the world -p.17-45 Prose: written language in its ordinary form - repetition (pleasure/knowledge) - mirror of sth/nature => language / declare existance, representing - establish the forms according to which they might resemble one another?...
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Reference: Noth, Winfried. Handbook of Semiotics. Stuttgart: Indiana, 1990. Aesthetics pp. 421-428 p.421: semiotic approaches to aesthetics consider works of art as signs and texts whose production and reception are a specific process of semiosis => 1735 Alexander G. Baumgarten (1714-1762) => aesthetics => “perception by the senses” Objects pp. 440-445 p.440: object =>...
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Object / remediation questions: source/sender ->computer -> interface -> communication -> interaction -> response -> trigger -> receiver (target) -> continuous -> feedback if possible <-> relation => source / target => language translation, due to the medium difference, we can use ‘Intersemiotic Translation’ which talks about two different signs system. “That medium itself...
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Reference: http://www.soban-art.com/definitions.asp By Geoff Cox Generative art is a contested term but for my purposes refers to artwork that is broadly rule-based, a further understanding of which has been informed by the co-curation of touring exhibition Generator (with Spacex Gallery, UK). The exhibition title “generator” describes the person, operating system or things that generates...
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Reference: Philipsen, Heidi. Moving Media Studies – Remediation Revisited. “Remediation in Trier Trilogies”. Ed. Lars Qvortrup. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur Press, 2007. - can object trigger emotional sense and experience, and authenticity in interactive digital art? Or how object can enhance this? - the use of objects is a semiotics p.71: “I think we have to...
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Reference: Jorna, Rene J and Wezel, Wout van (1997) ‘Objects and the world metaphor: A semiotic engineering approach’, in Noth Winfried, eds. Semiotics of the Media: state of the Art, Projects, and Perspectives. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp.481-495 computer -> interface -> communication -> interaction -> response -> tigger -> continous -...
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Reference: Noth, Winfried . Semiotics of the Media: state of the Art, Projects, and Perspectives. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. p.3: ” Peirce’s dictum reminds us that the study of sign just like the study of the media is the study of the process of mediation between the world in which we...
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