| Title: |
Alix Lambert's "The Mark of Cain" |
Vol: 36.1 |
| Author(s): |
Golec, Michael |
| Abstract: |
The following contribution is divided into two parts. The first part consists of a series of video still-images accompanied by a brief essay that describes the contents of Alix Lambert's film, The Mark of Cain. The second part is an interview with the filmmaker and artist. In the interview, Ms. Lambert discusses the differences between documentary filmmaking and conceptual art practices; she reflects on the nature of representation and examines the relationship between the symbolic content of Russian prison tattoos and the new Russian economy; and she compares the persistence of visual forms to the impermanence of meaning. That the two are interrelated is of special interest to Ms. Lambert, whose film records the vicissitudes of a faded visual idiom and reveals the non-identical sameness of form, homologically aligning tattoos and economic order. In both her video still-images and in her interview, Ms. Lambert attempts to make explicit what is inexplicit, all the while admitting to the disruptions, hesitations and gaps in doing so. In her film, a prisoner states that "You can learn a lot about a prisoner from his tattoos." In the hands of Ms. Lambert, we can learn a lot about tattoos from prisoners. And from tattoos, we can learn a lot about the decline of a culture.
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| Title: |
Visual Design of Interactive Software for Older Adults: Preventing Drug Interactions in Older Adults |
Vol: 36.1 |
| Author(s): |
Strickler, Zoe and Neafsey, Patricia |
| Abstract: |
This article reports findings from formative research conducted with older adults to identify interface design features of an interactive, educational software program that addresses age-related visual and physical impairments common in older people. Findings include recommendations concerning illustration style and representation of the human figure; face, size and configuration of type, color palette and basic interactive functions.
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| Title: |
The Mirage Project: An Experimental Qualitative Reception Study |
Vol: 36.1 |
| Author(s): |
Ingemann, Bruno |
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The Mirage Project focuses on how readers ascribe meaning to the pictures in the newspaper. The conventions of the newspaper as regards truthfulness, reliability and authenticity see the photograph as data, as information. But the photograph is more than that. Through the project sixteen informants' reception of four different pictures are analyzed in relation to the news articles to which they belong. Through the use of different visual variants for the same article the reader gets the possibility to be critical and to choose between different pictures. Mirage gathers this chaos of the readers' choices and arguments for their choices through a series of analyses. In the light of the new digital culture the reader makes a different frame of understanding than newspaper conventions normally offer. The readers are disobedient. They have other values and other demands on quality than expected.This article is a presentation of a reception project where the experimental method is developed to extend the semiotic meaning potential and partly defines the readers' values and preferences.
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