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Ocula 30 Vol. 25 | June 2024 | DOI: 10.57576/ocula2024-3 | Booklet ➞ PDF | <
Visuality of writing in arts and visual communication
editors Valentina Manchia and Salvatore Zingale.
Contributors to this Issue: Roberto Arista, Daniele Barbieri, Arianna Bellantuono, Andrea Benedetti, Ángeles Briones, Valeria Bucchetti, Daniele Capo, Giampiero Dalai, Rossana De Angelis, Asha Deshpande, Giacomo Festi, Weihuan Hou, Ben Howell Davis, Simona La Neve, Valentina Manchia, Girish Muzumdar, Luciano Perondi, Antonio Perri, Silvia Pireddu, Ludovica Polo, Leonardo Romei, Marcello Sessa, Davide Tolfo, Mansu Wang, Salvatore Zingale.
Writing and visuality are inextricably linked, and not only in non-alphabetic writing systems. How can we look at writing from a semiotic point of view, in order to render its complexity as a multidimensional object between transcription and representation, between notation and ima |... ⇲
This article is devoted to outlining a theory of graphic/written communication in the frame of a visual communication paradigm in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. He practiced a continuous integration between different tools of expression and described a printing technique that was a |... ⇲
Aztec pictographic writing conveys semantic (and linguistic) contents through conventional patterns of units. We argue that relevant visual values are ordered in subsets (topological, spatial and logical). Each unit is a “character” (in the Unicode vocabulary), either as a positive |... ⇲
Chinese calligraphy can be semiotically approached from its contemporary transformations, in an historical moment of cultural revival and media popularity. After an initial dialogue with recent contributions about the peculiarities of that long lasting tradition, where the sensori- |... ⇲
Since the 1950s, the field of Chinese archaeology has seen significant advancements with the unearthing of Chu Calligraphy on Bamboo Slips, hidden underground for over 2,000 years. These discoveries have provided a wealth of data for studying the development of pre-Qin ink writing |... ⇲
Visual poetry is a hybrid genre that, by combining images of different natures and texts, triggers a psychic reaction of involvement or estrangement. Typically multimodal, the genre evolves around matter and language. The repositioning in the digital world of many visual poets has |... ⇲
The urgency of communication has characterized verbo-visuality since its origin, driving artists and designers in pursuit of a supra-linguistic system to overcome the written language. With the beginning of the 21st century and digitalization, verbo-visuality has indeed found ferti |... ⇲
This paper punctuates some stages of the so-called “informational” theory of the image, which resignifies iconicity as data retention. It would first go to the origin, hypostatizing the horizontal reverse of forms theorized by Paul Valéry, crystallized at the extreme modernist edge |... ⇲
The visual dimension related to Self realisation in art history, is analyzed as answer to control over the individual. This is verifiable both in the avanguardie and neoavanguardie period where takes place the rewriting of linguistic codes, meaning cultural refusal of oppression. I |... ⇲
Introducing the artistic practice of the collective Slavs and Tatars, this essay aims to analyze the ways in which visual communication and linguistic analysis are integrated in their works within a critical and experimental approach. Expanding on the categorization proposed by art |... ⇲
By means of words we structure the world, following the principles of syntax. The subject-predicate relationship has undoubtedly proved effective in explaining the world, but the correspondence that underlies the idea that language represents the world is itself based symbolically |... ⇲
Through the analysis of some exemplary cases referred to the field of packaging design, we want to investigate how the typeface generates identity figures that modify the status of fonts, making them play the role of images capable of activating processes of meaning and narratives |... ⇲
The social inclusion of persons with disabilities is a priority in a growing number of countries. Their level of autonomy, with or without technical aids, is an essential criterion of its success. Pictograms are the technical aids of choice for persons with intellectual disabilitie |... ⇲
The article describes an educational activity that uses personal data to create a poetic narrative and reflect on the relationship between humans and technology. “Poetic narratives,” built on the concept of “infopoetry,” transform data into evocative narratives through visual, audi |... ⇲
Digital writings, like writings in general, are presented visually to the reader through different forms depending on the discourse of circulation and the distribution devices. These visual forms typical of certain discourses and appropriate to certain devices are generally identif |... ⇲
ISSN 1724-7810 | DOI: 10.12977/ocula
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Since 2019 Ocula is ranked as a class A journal by ANVUR for Research Area 10/C1 and 11/C4.
Ocula adheres to the principles of Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)
Ocula is indexed by Directory Open Access Journal (DOAJ) and Google Scholar
The content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND)