After the individual artist presentations we broke in four groups and compared images of related subject matter supplied by the professor.
My group, which was number one, dealt with different pictures of symbols. The first symbol was one of a one-way sign. The second consisted purely of letters, arranged in a certain way and thereby representing a language we couldn't decipher. The third one was a picture of a finger print. The next one was a picture showing different footprints in the sand on a beach, all going into different direction. The last two pictures where so called icons showing a drawn figure sitting on a chair waiting. The other one was the commonly known sign for a non-smoking area.
The term of an icon is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy. However, it can be also used in the general sense of a symbol — i.e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities. Each group had a different set of pictures with a different focus.
In order to talk about our respective pictures and to represent them in class where were given certain questions we should consider and try to answer.
-Where do you think the images originate from and why?
-Compare the way each image communicates.
-What types of different languages are at play?
-Can you give them names?
-How can you tell one from another?
-Do you approach each with different expectations (the way you respond, interact, and read each)?
-Can you apply any of Buster’s observations about the nature of signification in art to
-your own findings?
I truly enjoyed today class because talking freely about those pictures revealed so many different points of view to me and depicted them from so various angles. Sometimes the groups had difficulties drawing a connection between the pictures within a single group. Nevertheless, each one came up with surprisingly interesting results and associations.
My group, which was number one, dealt with different pictures of symbols. The first symbol was one of a one-way sign. The second consisted purely of letters, arranged in a certain way and thereby representing a language we couldn't decipher. The third one was a picture of a finger print. The next one was a picture showing different footprints in the sand on a beach, all going into different direction. The last two pictures where so called icons showing a drawn figure sitting on a chair waiting. The other one was the commonly known sign for a non-smoking area.
The term of an icon is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy. However, it can be also used in the general sense of a symbol — i.e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities. Each group had a different set of pictures with a different focus.
In order to talk about our respective pictures and to represent them in class where were given certain questions we should consider and try to answer.
-Where do you think the images originate from and why?
-Compare the way each image communicates.
-What types of different languages are at play?
-Can you give them names?
-How can you tell one from another?
-Do you approach each with different expectations (the way you respond, interact, and read each)?
-Can you apply any of Buster’s observations about the nature of signification in art to
-your own findings?
I truly enjoyed today class because talking freely about those pictures revealed so many different points of view to me and depicted them from so various angles. Sometimes the groups had difficulties drawing a connection between the pictures within a single group. Nevertheless, each one came up with surprisingly interesting results and associations.
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