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- Minette
- Saussure describes semiotics a, "a science which studies the life of signs at the heart of social life," which teaches "what signs consist of and what laws govern them." -- Different media and genres provide different frameworks for representing experience, facilitating some forms of expression and inhibiting others. … the more frequently and fluently a medium is used, the more “transparent” or “invisible” to its users it tends to become. For most routine purposes, awareness of a medium may hamper its effectiveness as a means to an end. Indeed, it is typically when the medium acquires transparency that its potential to fulfill its primary function is greatest.
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RSS feeds are typically used and valued for their ability to provide immediacy. As soon as a website, such as a blog, is updated, the RSS feed will reflect this change. However, RSS feeds (and much of technology in general) are limited by their basicness. As RSS feeds are typically seen in the most generic type, void of the little human presence that is left from its website, the ability to communicate anything short of "empirical" meaning is hindered.
This project toys with the idea of the immediacy of RSS feeds, purposefully "feeding" to the syndication a message divided into units discrete enough to lack meaning until the entire message has been finished. (This is then indicated by the simplistic period (.)) Furthermore, the blog is full of images that certainly signify the corresponding word being fed to the blog, but plays heavily on the idea of signifier and signified being a highly subjective concept.
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