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LANGUAGE, INFORMATION, AND TECHNE
Johanna Drucker (UCLA), Graphic Knowledge: From “Languages of Form” to Dynamic Systems
Thursday January 24, 2013 | 04:15 -06:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Board Room

Images have never been more prevalent than in our networked media environment. But the real force of graphics comes not from the mere proliferation of visual and pictorial materials, but from the ways graphical structures organize our relation to communication and information through interface and visualizations. The need for a critical language of description, analysis, and interpretation of visual forms returns us to the history of graphical systems. How can the rich history of graphical forms provide a resource for developing a critical language of the present? This talk puts some of the classic texts from the history of the “languages of form” into play with current thinking about dynamic systems—from a representational/presentational mode to a constitutive/dynamic approach to graphical knowledge production.