A sign is a functional code of communication that sets the conditions for interaction. Its action is instantaneous and encompasses a large number of people.
A symbol is an image, often very personal, that carries feelings, memories, and attitudes. It is not limited by form or time.
Sign | an instant code, function, language
Symbol | a timeless image, attitude, experience
What can happen at the intersection of sign and symbol? Letters lose their utilitarian function and transform into images, architecture begins to "sound," and the interface creates a bodily experience. The connection of two worlds creates new situations where literal meanings are transformed into systems of images, forming new ways of communication through art.
The festival views the city as an infrastructure of meanings: a network of signs and symbols (physical and digital) that governs perception and shapes collective memory. Artistic works intervene in this network, altering connections and creating new routes of perception.
Questions
How can signs (letter, digital, architectural) become symbols?
What needs to happen for a graphic form to transform into an image that we return to?
Can a sign lose its function and remain merely a sensory experience?
How do symbols manifest through the body, time, or material?
How does the city function as a semantic infrastructure (a network of signs and symbols)?
How can control signs (interfaces, codes, signals) transform into forms of relationships?
Can a symbol arise from error, noise, or failure?
How do collective rituals turn signs into symbols?
What role does the viewer occupy: observer, participant, or co-creator of symbolic meaning?
How can light, sound, rhythm, and data become carriers of symbolic resonance?
How do architectural elements (tower, cisterns, fair) transition from the status of "landmark" to that of a "living symbol"?
Directions
Working with forms of code, signal, cipher, with graphics, the disintegration of letter structures;
Using generative processes (data creates new meanings);
Transforming light, sound, movement into sensory symbols;
Creating an environment where the presence of the viewer influences the structure;
Interacting with the architecture of the city as a living symbol;
Using biofeedback or a bodily interface, where the symbol emerges from the body's reaction;
Exploring numbers, letters, text as rhythm;
Working with sacred abstract forms (circle, tower, dome, lighthouse);
Creating dynamic typography driven by body, breath, voice, movement;
Reconceptualizing the interface as a plastic medium.
Ru
ENG
A sign is a functional code of communication that sets the conditions for interaction. Its action is instantaneous and encompasses a large number of people.
A symbol is an image, often very personal, that carries feelings, memories, and attitudes. It is not limited by form or time.
Sign | an instant code, function, language
Symbol | a timeless image, attitude, experience
What can happen at the intersection of sign and symbol? Letters lose their utilitarian function and transform into images, architecture begins to "sound," and the interface creates a bodily experience. The connection of two worlds creates new situations where literal meanings are transformed into systems of images, forming new ways of communication through art.
The festival views the city as an infrastructure of meanings: a network of signs and symbols (physical and digital) that governs perception and shapes collective memory. Artistic works intervene in this network, altering connections and creating new routes of perception.
Questions
How can signs (letter, digital, architectural) become symbols?
What needs to happen for a graphic form to transform into an image that we return to?
Can a sign lose its function and remain merely a sensory experience?
How do symbols manifest through the body, time, or material?
How does the city function as a semantic infrastructure (a network of signs and symbols)?
How can control signs (interfaces, codes, signals) transform into forms of relationships?
Can a symbol arise from error, noise, or failure?
How do collective rituals turn signs into symbols?
What role does the viewer occupy: observer, participant, or co-creator of symbolic meaning?
How can light, sound, rhythm, and data become carriers of symbolic resonance?
How do architectural elements (tower, cisterns, fair) transition from the status of "landmark" to that of a "living symbol"?
Directions
Working with forms of code, signal, cipher, with graphics, the disintegration of letter structures;
Using generative processes (data creates new meanings);
Transforming light, sound, movement into sensory symbols;
Creating an environment where the presence of the viewer influences the structure;
Interacting with the architecture of the city as a living symbol;
Using biofeedback or a bodily interface, where the symbol emerges from the body's reaction;
Exploring numbers, letters, text as rhythm;
Working with sacred abstract forms (circle, tower, dome, lighthouse);
Creating dynamic typography driven by body, breath, voice, movement;
Reconceptualizing the interface as a plastic medium.
Nizhny Novgorod
Ru
ENG
A sign is a functional code of communication that sets the conditions for interaction. Its action is instantaneous and encompasses a large number of people.
A symbol is an image, often very personal, that carries feelings, memories, and attitudes. It is not limited by form or time.
Sign | an instant code, function, language
Symbol | a timeless image, attitude, experience
What can happen at the intersection of sign and symbol? Letters lose their utilitarian function and transform into images, architecture begins to "sound," and the interface creates a bodily experience. The connection of two worlds creates new situations where literal meanings are transformed into systems of images, forming new ways of communication through art.
The festival views the city as an infrastructure of meanings: a network of signs and symbols (physical and digital) that governs perception and shapes collective memory. Artistic works intervene in this network, altering connections and creating new routes of perception.
Questions
How can signs (letter, digital, architectural) become symbols?
What needs to happen for a graphic form to transform into an image that we return to?
Can a sign lose its function and remain merely a sensory experience?
How do symbols manifest through the body, time, or material?
How does the city function as a semantic infrastructure (a network of signs and symbols)?
How can control signs (interfaces, codes, signals) transform into forms of relationships?
Can a symbol arise from error, noise, or failure?
How do collective rituals turn signs into symbols?
What role does the viewer occupy: observer, participant, or co-creator of symbolic meaning?
How can light, sound, rhythm, and data become carriers of symbolic resonance?
How do architectural elements (tower, cisterns, fair) transition from the status of "landmark" to that of a "living symbol"?
Directions
Working with forms of code, signal, cipher, with graphics, the disintegration of letter structures;
Using generative processes (data creates new meanings);
Transforming light, sound, movement into sensory symbols;
Creating an environment where the presence of the viewer influences the structure;
Interacting with the architecture of the city as a living symbol;
Using biofeedback or a bodily interface, where the symbol emerges from the body's reaction;
Exploring numbers, letters, text as rhythm;
Working with sacred abstract forms (circle, tower, dome, lighthouse);
Creating dynamic typography driven by body, breath, voice, movement;
Reconceptualizing the interface as a plastic medium.
Nizhny Novgorod
ENG