The Book AsMain MenuA Repository of InformationA PerformanceA JourneyJessie CarterA Conceptual Playground for Choice(sagesolar, 2014, “The king of hearts”)A Medium for Universal LanguageA Phenomenal ReadingA Relationship Between Recto and VersoA Vision of the FutureA Repository of LanguageKate Aberman74d96e55dd29b74bef0e0a20c2d79e879fab26ccEmmie Banksd3c00922e17d33400599c8143d1d353f7d36ea7aJessie Cartera6f04f02805133baaf416ab9fcd9a4a2b857b080Deanna Fayed2f0ded76fb9215a15ea7a11b638a892a604843bfGabby Huberta3f266b029aa2bada1c10fd4a31317d37a1bec9dKatherine King6125a92332113f4973e618b8e428aac70a6ed790Carol Leea596a4440954bb8282b044cb431f3d2b8a9a8e75Sarah Richmanbeb66f0b62cd0c55d75ac46cfcf447f52ffe6aa8Matthew Winz5800f51dc1a62f1d2397973f41e4b16a521351b3whitney trettienf2bbb7126b60dc1bee07050dccbd9d30f12d7b2b
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12016-12-11T21:12:23-08:00Katherine King6125a92332113f4973e618b8e428aac70a6ed790135561Information Desk Lady, Upside-down Face, Hot Beverage, & Person with Folded Handsplain2016-12-11T21:12:23-08:00Katherine King6125a92332113f4973e618b8e428aac70a6ed790
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1media/book from the ground rezise.jpg2016-12-06T09:55:11-08:00(universally) Readable Text: Book from the Ground17plain2016-12-11T21:15:13-08:00In his 2003 Artist Book, Book from the Ground,Xu Bing creates a novel solely told through symbols, emojis, and icons. He explores the idea of images as a universal language, drawing inspiration from flight safety brochures and airports as places of intense cross-cultural contact. The emerging universal communication system, images require no language to interpret; however, they do require a certain cultural understanding to correctly interpret the information depicted. My reading of Xu Bing's Book from the Ground, yours, and Sarah's might be drastically different. Emoji use also demonstrates the fascinating relationship of denotation to connotation--any Millennial will describe the Information Desk Lady as a sassy, carefree, hair-flipping gal. (Not to mention the less obvious Teacup, Upside-down Face, or the Person with Folded Hands) This impressionistic method of interpreting text may not actually be the most effective way of communicating information due to the individual interpretations (have you ever tried to build anything from IKEA?), although this may be an intrinsic quality of languages as a whole and not exclusive to image interpretation.
