Saturday, February 20, 2010

Class exercise C: Iconic and Indexical

Gist of the lecture: pictogram and semantics. 

We were asked to form groups of two or three, choose an object and represent it in it's iconic and indexical form. The iconic form bearing direct indication to the signified object in this case an iPod and the indexical form bearing some indication to the iPod.

Here, my groupmate and I have come up with a sketch of the iPod which is an icon and the musical note which is an indexical signifier as the iPod is an mp3 player which plays music and music consist of musical notes in part. On top of that in our cultural context, the musical note is indicative of music as a whole, thus we used it as an indexical signifier.


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