Kristóf Nyíri:

Pictorial Meaning and Mobile Communication

1. Thinking in Images 2. Convention and Resemblance 3. Knowledge and Visual Communication 4. MMS Arrives 5. Pictorial Communication and Mobile Communities

Kristóf Nyíri:

Pictorial Meaning and Mobile Communication

1. Thinking in Images 2. Convention and Resemblance 3. Knowledge and Visual Communication 4. MMS Arrives 5. Pictorial Communication and Mobile Communities

Thinking in Images

• From Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the Mind (1994). „The commu-nicative situation: Harry tells Sam about a tree.”

Thinking in Images

• Graphics from Wittgenstein’s Nachlaß:

Thinking in Images

• From Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking (1962).

– Intellectual operation: The reasoning a > b, b > c, therefore a > c, shown superfluous

– Diagrammatic scribble: Democracy. „Everyone free to take part in government. Great differences in background.”

Kristóf Nyíri:

Pictorial Meaning and Mobile Communication

1. Thinking in Images 2. Convention and Resemblance 3. Knowledge and Visual Communication 4. MMS Arrives 5. Pictorial Communication and Mobile Communities

Convention and Resemblance

• From Wittgenstein’s Nachlaß:

Convention and Resemblance

• Speech balloons of various shapes. After William Horton,

The Icon Book (1994).

Convention and Resemblance

• Speech balloon: from a cheap illustrated book for children c1770.

Convention and Resemblance

• Speech band: from a Dutch block-book of the fifteenth century

Convention and Resemblance

• Speech band: Greek vase, made shortly before 500 B.C.

Convention and Resemblance

• From Wittgenstein’s Nachlaß:

Convention and Resemblance

• From John Kennedy, A Psychology of Picture Perception

Convention and Resemblance

• Animated...

Kristóf Nyíri:

Pictorial Meaning and Mobile Communication

1. Thinking in Images 2. Convention and Resemblance 3. Knowledge and Visual Communication 4. MMS Arrives 5. Pictorial Communication and Mobile Communities

Knowledge and Visual Communication

• From Ivins, Prints and Visual Communication (1953)

Knowledge and Visual Communication

• Neurath’s isotypes

Kristóf Nyíri:

Pictorial Meaning and Mobile Communication

1. Thinking in Images 2. Convention and Resemblance 3. Knowledge and Visual Communication 4. MMS Arrives 5. Pictorial Communication and Mobile Communities

MMS arrives

• Barbara! This is my house. This is where we have a drink tonight!

MMS arrives

• And this is how you get there: leave the main road when you come to the stone crucifix and then follow the sketch.

MMS arrives

• MMS snapshot of a unique particular object: the vase in my room...

Kristóf Nyíri:

Pictorial Meaning and Mobile Communication

1. Thinking in Images 2. Convention and Resemblance 3. Knowledge and Visual Communication 4. MMS Arrives 5. Pictorial Communication and Mobile Communities