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I refer to the change from ‘linguistic turn’ to ‘iconic turn’ in humanities, because it points at the process of profound changes in communicative structures. However, non-linguistic communication can be more than solely visual, also being realized by sending neural impulses online with brain-to-brain interfaces, or by artistic genetical engineering.
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See for example: Ausburn, L. and Ausburn, F. (1978). ‘Visual literacy: Background, theory and practice’. PLET 15: 4. pp. 291–297; Giorgis, C., Johnson, N. J., Bonomo, A. and Colbert, C. (1999). ‘Visual literacy’. Reading Teacher 53: 2. pp. 146–153 Lester, P. M. (2011). Visual Communication. Images with Messages. Boston: Wadsworth Publishing; and Baylen, D. M. and D’Alba, A. (eds.) (2015). Essentials of Teaching and Integrating Visual and Media Literacy. Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London: Springer.
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This is a fascinating field, which I am investigating for a few years (2017–2021) as part of an interdisciplinary project funded by the European Commission within Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions—Research and Innovation Staff Exchange: ‘Technologies of Imaging in Communication, Art, and Social Sciences’—TICASS. It is to be conducted between countries on the North-South axes: Great Britain, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Kenya, and South Africa. (TICASS research scope is just a starting point for more extensive investigations including Central and Far East Asia, the South Pacific, and Central and South Americas).
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“As a result I was greeted with a loud ‘Hello Professor Warwick’ as I passed through the foyer, and the foyer light switched on. Elsewhere in the building, as I approached my laboratory, the network was able to track me and, as a result, opened the laboratory door automatically. My computer even switched on to my web page and informed me of my email count. A map of the building, updated by the computer, indicated my whereabouts at all times, and recorded when I had entered a particular room and how long I had been there”—Warwick, K. (2003). ‘Cyborg morals, cyborg values, cyborg ethics’. Ethics and Information Technology 5. Kluwer Academic Publishers. p. 134.
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Eduardo Kac used the concept and the phrase ‘bio-art’ for the first time in relation to his artwork ‘Time Capsule’ in 1997—Kac, E. Bio Art: In Vivo Aesthetics. In: Wilkoszewska, K. (ed.) (2015). Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Aesthetics, Aesthetics in Action, Krakow: Libron. p. 161.
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For the full transcription of the interview see: Appendix B. Towards Material Communication, Interview with Eduardo Kac, 21 October 2016, Chicago. The extended version of the interview was also published in Journal of Posthuman Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2019.
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You can see this in a part of the interview with Kac, edited in a video and titled ‘W stronę komunikacji materialnej’ in: Medialica. Studia Multimedialne z Humanistyki 3, 2018. http://medialica.umcs.lublin.pl/2018/12/11/aleksandra-lukaszewicz-alcaraz-w-strone-komunikacji-materialnej/.
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“A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels,
One day I’ll tell your embryonic births:
A, black fur-clad brilliant flies
Clustering round every cruel stench,
Defiles of darkness; E, blank spread of mists and tents,
Proud glacier spears, white kings, sigh of umbel;
I, purples, blood splat, lovely lips laughing
In anger or penitential ecstasies;
U, cycles, divine shudder of viridian seas,
Peace of pastures grazed by cattle, peace of high
Pensive foreheads rucked by alchemy;
O, the last Trumpet, strange crescendo blast,
Navigated silences of Worlds and Angels,
—O the Omega, the violet radiance of Those Eyes!”
‘Vowels’ by Arthur Rimbaud, in: Rimbaud A., Vowels. In: Arthur Rimbaud. Collected Poems, Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Martin Sorrell (2001). Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. 135.
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A catalog of Eduardo Kac artworks can be found on the website: http://ekac.org/.
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“In all cases [the Interpretant] includes feelings; for there must, at least, be a sense of comprehending the meaning of the sign. If it includes more than mere feeling, it must evoke some kind of effort. It may include something besides, which, for the present, may be vaguely called ‘thought.’ I term these three kinds of interpretant the ‘emotional,’ the ‘energetic,’ and the ‘logical’ interpretants”—Peirce, Ch. S. (1998). The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings. Vol. 2 (1893–1913). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2. 409.
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Our bodies ARE already hybrid in a way, because we are trans-genic mini chimeras, but apart from realizing that fact in relation to our bodies as they are, I want to press on further hybridization, caused by intentional interference.
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Łukaszewicz Alcaraz, A. (2021). Cyborg and Material Communication. In: Are Cyborgs Persons?. Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60315-1_6
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