Indexical

Définitions de « indexical »

Indexical - Adjectif

• Qui appartient ou se rapporte à l'indexicalité, caractéristique des signes ou expressions dont la signification varie selon le contexte d'énonciation.

  La formulation d'un titre de presse est un exercice d'indexicalité par excellence: changer un mot, déplacer une virgule, et le sens peut en être radicalement modifié.

Évolution historique de l’usage du mot « indexical » depuis 1800

Citations contenant le mot « indexical »

• 3. To contextualize these contemporary creative practices in larger cultural movements, for instance an indexical fascination in the visual arts (Krauss) or postmodern views hostile to the notion of absolute truth.

• Tina Braegger employs the canvas as a container for appropriation and manipulation. In a new series of large scale works, the indexical mark of painting grates against the jovial “dancing bear” symbol, eroding its connotations, but never fully erasing them.

• Combining documentary imagery with found footage and staged photographs, Silas Bahr presents a docu-fiction series that questions the inherent indexical potential of photography and the simultaneous uncertainty around falsehoods and reality.

• These renderings represent averaged versions of mass online booty, hijacked by dragnets, in the style of Francis Galton’s blurred eugenicist composites, 8k, Unreal engine. As data visualizations, they do not require any indexical reference to their object. They are not dependent on the actual impact of photons on a sensor, or on emulsion. They converge around the average, the median; hallucinated mediocrity. They represent the norm by signalling the mean. They replace likenesses with likelinesses. They may be ‘poor images’ in terms of resolution, but in style and substance they are: mean images.

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