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While much of our
grasp of reality may be mediated by language, and while many visual
“signs” may be arbitrary and require a learned code to decipher,
this may not be true of all visual material.
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Our position is that
that is too extreme and that all representational images are a combination of
some degree of non-culturally based interpretation by the eye-brain
system, and some amount of
interpretation based on our culture, background, experience of both creator
and viewer
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We process reality,
including real 3D world, not just images, to extract useful meaning.
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Processed both by
biology and by our experience/context
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Starting the image
itself some convex linear combination of our construction through our system
and what in our systems in the first place, the image itself convex linear
combination of reality and what the author put there.
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Nature: still have
your biological perception construction as well as social contract—but
not author intent issues…
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Author constructs an
artificial reality which can range from 3 pebbles stacked on top of each other (Zen art, Japanese garden) to
pencil sketch caricature in 30 sec to Mona Lisa to VR in Cave . Different
tools produce different imagery. Range from as realistic as possible—to
point where they can fool perceptual system. To completely unreal and
iconic—Guernica, all symbolic.
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We believe always is
a code, but not always a symbolic code—no one trying to symbolize
anything. First see it naked without that code. If told come up with
interpretation, cog system can go into overdrive and if trained in art of
interpreting imagery can come up with all kinds of conjunctures.
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Reality: there
isn’t one reality—landscape at night in full moon, different from
same landscape during day time. Changes over time even when nothing moves
except light.
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To go back to
Plato—we’re still in the cave—not seeing things directly
but always working through our perceptual system and cultural context.
[Greenberg vs. avd seeing fall colors]. Reality out there, but we are not nec
seeing things the same way.
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http://www.epiphyte.ca/photos/nature/20020824_190555.jpg
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