Posters and Online Posters
Beyond the Text: Exploring History through Typography and Graphic Design
Poster/Exhibit Session Chun-wo Pat, Chun Wo Pat
Reading is instinctual and automatic. Readability of a text is culturally and linguistic defined. Is it possible to read a foreign language without training? Probably not, if reading is defined as a cognitive process. What if we read a text as an image? If so, reading will become a perceptual process. Cognitive or perceptive, reading involves the art of seeing. My paper will investigate reading beyond and behind the text, exploring the experience of reading in the context of the multilingual environment within the graphics/typographic discipline. Text—letters or numbers, signs or symbols, alphabets or non-alphabets —has shared properties across cultures. Under my working definition, these properties can be assigned to three attributes: graphic (the aesthetic form: shape, size, color of text), geometry (visual strategy: reading direction, grid system), and symbolic (the encoded message: visual pun). They are, I believe, the keys to read/see text/image, potentially modifying the way we see and think.
Beyond the Literal Voice: Creative Image Making Methods
Poster/Exhibit Session Chen Wang
This is a collection of student work from a project I taught in California State University, Fullerton. Project was armed to prepare Visual Communication Design students to visualize their ideas in an interpretive way. The approach was inspired by American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce’s Semiotics methodology. By using icon, index and symbol, students had a chance to search meaning from visual forms and build communication blocks to interpreter their personal and social identities. Presentation will demonstrate the design process and final outcomes.
Emergent Literacy and the Wordless Picturebook: Explorations into a Visual Genre
Virtual Poster Christina Quintiliani
The wordless picturebook is a unique genre of literature – one that is exclusively visual without need for accompanying text. Empirical studies have consistently demonstrated the benefits of wordless books in children’s emergent literacy development, including their ability to promote advancements in narrative comprehension, theory of mind, metacognition, and visual awareness. Regrettably, there is a lack of research on the potential advantages of educational resources where wordless literature serves as the central focus for instruction. Acknowledgement of this gap served as the catalyst behind the “Wordless Books and Emergent Narrative Development: A Handbook for Educators.” This presentation will provide an overview of author’s handbook which is based on a review and synthesis of existing literature in the field, as well as feedback acquired through practising teachers. The presentation will also outline the next proposed stages of research for the handbook, including its upcoming implementation into the classroom to investigate its instructional potential and overall practicality for use by primary educators.
Trace of Nature
Virtual Poster Dilay Kocogullari
This study seeks to explore, through the visual images, the relationship between art and biology. It will examine the physical similarities between the organs of the creatures and some fruits-vegetables on macro and micro levels., as well as the benefits of the selected fruits-vegetables for the organs. This study will question the fact that the benefits of vegetables become a part of the popular culture and are reflected in the field of art. By determining the basic characteristics of these reflections and their similarities, and offering a critical approach to the work of art, it aims to contribute to the literature. Macro and micro images of the organs and fruits will be used in order to determine the relationships between them. It will explore the relationship between art and biology in terms of similarities and benefits, and the process in which nature is transformed into an object of consumption will be examined from a critical point of view. Art aims to carry us to different universes and provides us with the different point of views whether it is based on paint brushes, ceramics, marble, plants or any other living forms. Therefore, the present research aims to demonstrate us these differences with the help of the discipline of biology by amazing human beings, by raising their curiosities, and by reminding them the basic phenomenon that art offers. Thus, it is expected that human beings will have a better understanding of the similarities, and will acknowledge and protect nature more.
Mixed Mediums and Inventing Historical Narrative in a Post-truth Digitality
Poster/Exhibit Session Charlotte Tegan
Photographic images have often formed an assumed bedrock of indexical and documentary truth of the world, yet in our recently adopted digitality – the truthful assumption of the photographic medium is questioned, stretched, and often purposely manipulated. From edited photographs in beauty magazines and social media, to doctored photographs of politicians on newspaper covers, to fantastical, whimsical artistic photo editing renditions - the photographic image is arguably becoming more nuanced and coded in contemporary digital settings. My current artistic project as a photomedia artist and PhD researcher is exploring tangible and visual representations of “ambivalent entanglement:" the methodological entanglements of contemporary photomedia arts practice and the multitude of equipment used in image making, both analogue and digital. Through utilising analogue techniques in and around digital platforms like editing software and social media, and physical digital technologies such as computers and smartphones, this work exemplifies the ability to invent historical narratives through the employment of visual communication theory. Utilising coded signifiers and cultural currencies, these works appear ambivalent and surreal – the images represent ambiguous settings in time, such as public squares and museums. The representation of these places is then misconstrued further through the juxtaposition of subject matter and medium: portraits or social documentary images of people using digital technologies, yet seen through the inherently documentary-ascribed lens of black and white film photography. Commenting on the ability of mixed photographic mediums to create personal and societal narratives, this work prompts considered visual reading, and a reflection of our assumed visual literacy.
