Foundation 4D 1 – G1

What are some of the key questions Barthes aims to investigate in the article?

Barthes aims to explore and scrutinize the synergy between three distinct types of information or message that a image can bring out to the people reading or looking at. The three types of messages are linguistic, the coded and non-coded iconic messages. Barthes then discusses how these 3 Read more →

Inspired by how Singaporeans love food, I use myself to represent it in this work of mine. Using visual paradox, framing and juxtaposing, this work shows the story of ‘giant me’ discovering a hot steaming pool of floating salted egg Pau. And just trying to reach out for it despite being separated by the buildings and trees. That shows how Read more →

The strange world I woke up to is a Trash pit where I was then approached by 3 Creatures that looks very familiar but there was something wrong with them. My idea is to create characters that are related to our daily lives, something that is common for us. I decided to explore my creativity and pick 3 familiar junk items Read more →

What are some of the key questions Barthes aims to investigate in the article?

Barthes aims to investigate the meaning of an image. How the message reaches the viewer, does it really shows in terms literal or symbolic? Are there actually codes in an image and how does meaning gets into the image.

What are some of the key Read more →

What are some of the key questions Barthes aims to investigate in the article? 

Barthes aims to investigate the meaning of the image, how it portrays a message instead of being merely an analogical representation. He wants to know; how does meaning get into an image? Where does it end and what lies beyond the image?

What are some of the key Read more →

What are some of the key questions Barthes aims to investigate in this article?

He aims to investigate how does meaning get into the image, and where does it end. And if it ends, what is there beyond?

What are some of the key terms/ concepts introduced and discussed?

The concept introduced was the three messages, in an image used for advertisement. The Read more →

Inspiration and research: 

The first collage that I found deconstructed the woman’s face, revealing the things that goes on in her mind contrary to her appearance. In the second collage, the skull replacing the face can be inferred as the woman being dead on the inside hence her reflection being that of a skull too.  These collages shows a desire to Read more →

a) Can analogical representation produce true systems of signs and not merely simple agglutinations of symbols?

b) Is it possible to conceive of an analogical ‘code’ (as opposed to digital ones)?

c) How does the meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what Read more →