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DV 1101 Discourse week 3 – 23/02/11. Tim Foster & Sophie Barr. http://ueldiscourse.wordpress.com. Send your blog address to me at [email protected]. Semiotics. Last week: Week 2 presentation. Image and Text. Language is a symbolic sign system: “Word is just the noise that means word.” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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DV 1101 Discourse week 3 – 23/02/11
Tim Foster & Sophie Barr
SemioticsSemiotics
Last week:Week 2 presentation
Image and Text
Language is a symbolic sign system:
“Word is just the noise that means word.”(Barron, 2006)
How does text shape how we understand images?
Victor Burgin, 1976Posession
Victor Burgin, 1976Today is the Tomorrow You Were Promised Yesterday
The early-morning mistdissolves. And the sun shineson the Pacific. You stand likeBalboa the Conquistadore.
On the cliff top. Among the last ofthe Monterey Cypress trees.
The old whaler's hut is abandoned now.But whales still swim through the wild waves.
Sea otters float on the calmer waters.Cracking abalone shells on their chests.
Humming birds take nectar from the red hibiscus.Pelicans splash lazily in the surf.
Wander down a winding path. Onto gentle sands.Ocean crystal clear. Sea anemones. Turquoise waters.
Total immersion. Ecstasy.
Victor Burgin, 1986Office at Night
Barbara Kruger, 1971You Construct Intricate Rituals Which Allow You to Touch the Skin of Other Men
Barbara Kruger, 1981Your Manias Become Science
Barbara Kruger, 1983We Won’t Play Nature to Your Culture
Barbara Kruger, 1987I shop therefore I am (i)
Barbara Kruger, 1989Your Body is a Battleground
Barbara Kruger, 1990Your Body is a Battleground
Barbara Kruger, 1986We Don’t Need Another Hero – Billboard project
Jenny Holzer, 1977–79"Truisms” - Times Square NYC
Lawrence Weiner, Vienna, 1991
Joseph Kosuth, 1965Four Colours Four Words
Joseph Kosuth, 1965One and Three Chairs
Gillian Wearing, 1993 `I’m desperate’ from Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say.
Recommended Reading
Appignanesi, R., Paul, C., Jansz, L. (2004), Introducing semiotics, Thriplow : Icon
Barthes, R. (1972) Mythologies, London : Cape
Berger, J. (1972) Ways of Seeing, London ; Harmondsworth : British Broadcasting Corporation : Penguin
Burgin, V. (1982) Thinking Photography, London: Macmillan
Burgin, V. (1976) Two essays on art photography and semiotics, London: Robert Self Publications
Kruger, B. (1990) Love for sale : the words and pictures of Barbara Kruger, New York : H.N. Abrams 1990
McGraw, B.R., Ungar, S. (1989) Signs in culture : Roland Barthes today, Iowa City : University of Iowa Press 1989
