A Theoretical Model for the Design of a Transcultural Visual Communication System in a Posthuman Condition
dc.contributor.supervisor | Ascott, Roy | |
dc.contributor.author | Nawar, Haytham | |
dc.contributor.other | Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-17T15:02:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier | 10322746 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/6757 | |
dc.description | Edited version embargoed until 17.11.2017 Full version: Access restricted permanently due to 3rd party copyright restrictions. Restriction set on 17.11.2016 by SC, Graduate School | |
dc.description.abstract |
This dissertation follows an interdisciplinary approach that weaves practice and theory in the disciplines of visual communication, semiotics, cultural studies, linguistics, and new media art. The research methodology is practice-based located within a historical and contemporary context that allows for artistic experimentation and new knowledge to be generated through reflected creative practice This research proposes a context within which society can develop a transcultural means of communication with the objective of gaining completely unambiguous forms of understanding. This research explores the possibility of an open source scaffold for pictorial language that fosters self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. The dissertation explores research strategies and visual practice in relationship to a proposed global use of a common system of visual semantic decoding that would allow for visual synthesis by individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. It is proposed that a shared collective knowledge of signs, symbols, and pictographs, supported by the advancement of future communication and information systems, can lead to a visual communication system that will be universally accepted. There is a historic, on-going and collective consensus on the need for a universal language in the near-future posthuman condition. In answer to this need, this dissertation contextualises and goes on to explore a realised case study of a practice-based solution for a universal pictorial communication system. The system may at times seem ambitious and abstract, however, it aims to include all cultures of the world, seeking to establish a direction that identifies and locates cultural similarities over cultural difference. This practice-based enquiry proposes a direction that should maintain coherence, logic, and veracity in order to develop a pictographic communication system that is a valid representation of the human experience in a posthuman condition. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Plymouth | |
dc.subject | Linguistics | en_US |
dc.subject | Writing systems | |
dc.subject | Communication theory | |
dc.subject | Visual communication | |
dc.subject | Pictographs | |
dc.subject | Semiotic theories | |
dc.subject | Cultural studies | |
dc.subject | Transculturalism | |
dc.subject | Multiculturalism | |
dc.subject | Transhuman | |
dc.subject | Transhumanism | |
dc.subject | Posthuman | |
dc.subject | Posthumanism | |
dc.subject | Singularity | |
dc.subject | Artificial intelligence | |
dc.subject | Universal language | |
dc.subject | Super intelligence | |
dc.subject | New Media | |
dc.subject.classification | PhD | en_US |
dc.title | A Theoretical Model for the Design of a Transcultural Visual Communication System in a Posthuman Condition | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | |
plymouth.version | non-publishable | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.24382/803 | |
dc.type.qualification | Doctorate | en_US |
rioxxterms.funder | Not available | en_US |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Not available | en_US |
rioxxterms.version | NA |
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