{"id":1231,"date":"2012-05-15T00:41:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/?page_id=1231"},"modified":"2012-05-15T00:41:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:41:26","slug":"darren-tofts-and-lisa-gye","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/transdisciplinary-imaging-conference-2012-2\/speakers-2012\/darren-tofts-and-lisa-gye\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Hangin\u2019 on the Telephone<\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Images, we learned from structuralism, are codified, wired and skeined with a fabric of arbitrarily grafted meanings, inflections and contracts.\u00a0 What if the semiotic DNA of an image could be recoded, interfered with, to irresistibly alter that contract, to supplant the arbitrary with the fixity of \u201cthe only possible meaning\u201d?\u00a0 In this paper we propose that juxtaposition of text and image can narrow the morphology of what and how an image means.\u00a0 We will discuss this process of semiotic rewiring in terms of an ongoing remix project, <em>The Secret Gestural Prehistory of Mobile Devices<\/em> (http:\/\/www.secretprehistory.net\/). \u00a0In critical remix, the found object is not enough.\u00a0 The juxtaposition of text and image is a kind of Virilio-like logic bomb that, when detonated, interferes with the mind as much as the image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hangin\u2019 on the Telephone \u00a0 Images, we learned from structuralism, are codified, wired and skeined with a fabric of arbitrarily grafted meanings, inflections and contracts.\u00a0 What if the semiotic DNA of an image could be recoded, interfered with, to irresistibly alter that contract,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"parent":1081,"menu_order":32,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1231\/revisions\/1250"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}