New icons are coming online. I am publishing some on a blog named IDhumanism. Feel free to download icons or attributes to developed our contemporary « symbolic lingua franca », to use the words of Edwars A.Maser (Baroque and Rococo, Pictorial Imagery, Cesare RipaDover Publications, New York, 1971) .
Creating icons should means creating the next reality!
There are some images captured during the ift event in Osaka (Sound and Icon Workshop). I want to say thank you to every people who was present to created that experience of art.
Now, the Web Iconologia project that I am developping has a new dimension : throught you I understand the power of living visual language. Icons take meaning because we use theme in daily life… I do not know yet, What I will do with that idea. So, before the end of that year, I will publish an sample of Web Iconologia online. The human values icons you produced during that WorkShops will be a part of that Web Iconologia 2009.
So the Web Iconologia is a simple proposition to inject new icons as new vocabulary and then proposing life dimensions.
Enjoy art and life !
Jeanne_lb
Thanks message and report from Mamoru
＜For English scroll down＞
身の回りにあるいろいろな図／イメージを通して人間性や時代性を読み解こうとする15世紀のイタリア人美学者チェザレ・リパ(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Ripa)の著作に端を発する「イコノロジー（図象学）」という考え方を自分なりに解釈するところからジャンのリサーチははじまっている。
彼女のアイデアの根本には他の多くのアーティスト達も共有しているだろう信念がある。“もし身の回りのイメージが現実世界（人間性、世界の様相）を反映しているのなら、イメージを読み解く事で世界が見えてくる。また逆に、新しいイメージを作り出す時にそれは現実世界に投げかけられ、新しい世界のあり方を作り出していく。”ここで言う現実世界、または人間社会というのは連綿と刷新されていく事そのものであり、どのように人と人が繋がるのかというコミュニケーションの方法にこそ実相が集約されている、とジャンは考える。
15世紀ヨーロッパにおける個人間の手紙のやりとりに現代に繋がるコミュニケーションの原型を見ているジャンからすると、インターネットの存在は現在の人間社会／コミュニケーションにとって間違いなく最も重要な要素のひとつだろう。Web 2.0(双方向型のネット上のコミュニケーション)が可能にしたSNSなどの新しい人間関係は社会そのものに多大な影響を及ぼしている。さらにネット空間では性別、年齢、宗教、人種、国籍、言語などの障害を時には越えてしまう可能性も示している。その中で言語的役割をもったのがアイコンと呼ばれる表意図／イメージだ。つまり、ジャンにとってこの世界を読み解くという事はウェブ上に溢れかえっているこれらの膨大なアイコンを通して可能であり、その中に人間社会とその中で扱われる価値を読み解く事に他ならない。
彼女の信念にのっとって考えると、Web文化の根底にある人間性をふまえた上で、「新しいアイコン」を考え、作り出すことで次々に刷新されていっているこの世界の生成に参加する事になる。アイコンを共に考え、描き、読み解き、シェアするということは、つまり共に社会の在り様をデザインしようとする事だったのだ。今回のワークショップで提示された新しいアイコンは今後彼女の作成するWebサイトにて無償ダウンロード可能になるそうで、それらがどのように流布する、または流布しないのか、どのような様相を生み出すのかとても気になるところだ。
レビュー／ift
※上記文章中の情報はジャンが語った内容から引用しています。
On 2009.10.23-24 @ ift presented a workshop with two artist; Jeann Landry-Belleu and Mamoru Okuno.
Jeanne works on the issues related to Web culture and especially the icons in relation to the 15th Century italian writer Cesare Ripa(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Ripa). She introduced her ideas about the Web and her current research on icons.
If the images surrounding our society can be seen as the reflections of what human reality today, then analyzing images can be a search for Humanity. Jeanne tried to collect icons on Web to understand the human values among the Web culture. Then she started creating new icons to project her ideals on Web, where new form of communication are continuously updated. At the end of the workshop, all of the participants made their own icons representing various human values, and they will be up on Web for people to download freely. The artist’s intention is to see if they would effect the future of our world.
Sound artist Mamoru introduced one of his “etude for everyday objects and practices” His “etude” is an attempt of create art work by a simple idea; recode, decode, remix with everyday elements which often are considered economically worthless. The “etude no.12 variation for eating Nori paste together” involves people eating Nori paste on a Japanese cracker with other seasoning as snack. During the workshop, Mamoru made these snacks for participants to enjoy eating. At the end, he showed the process of empty glass bottle of Nori paste becoming “etude no.12”, a sound object. People passed the object that was put on a small light box one by one to listen to the sound. The sharing of the process transcend the object from to-be-a-garbage into a work of art.
EVENT and Collaboration
Mamoru Okuno and I will work in parallel to create that event… Exchange about human being and combine to feel the beauty of life.
You can see more to the Mamoru’s blog here. and english details here.
Where : ift project room in Osaka
3-chome, Kita-ku, Osaka Nakatsu 21-15
Date: 2days
October 23 (Fri) 19:00 –
October 24 (Sat) 15:00 –
Fee 2,000 yen (We provide snacks and drinks!)
Maximum capacity of about 10 participants each day (15 MAX)
Reservations required: (Friday or Saturday) on the mamoru@afewnotes.com Please indicate your email.
Description of Iconology WorkShop:
Icons are deeply related with our daily life.
Icons are these images wich are used as tool, languages or attributes to manage devices and navigated inside systems such as the Web.
So the workshop I am proposing shall explore how composed human values with icons from Web or simply from Cell phone application, such as Rss feed(Wifi), refresh symbol, stars, bubble, chains, earth, just to say few examples.
Notes :
Today, my work is in the field Web art . My art research is a study about the parallel between humanism and the Web 2.0 culture.
To figure out the humanism form, my approach consists in a constant observation of Web culture. I visited and explored as well as I can the popular Web plateforms related with the social network. I mean : Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, Naver, Mixi, Google, Cyworld, Wikipedia, blogs and also cellphones applications related with that network.
In the same time I am work to upgrade my own understanding of humanism. That’s how I could composed my first version of Web Iconology (2 weeks residency in Haslla art World ). This iconology reveals my present humanism’s conception.
Well, as I did that icons, I invited you to use icons from the Web and from cell phones to figure out your idea of human values.
Moreover, we can understand that icons project as a kind of Kanjis.
Ma résidence se déroule a merveille. Aujourd’hui j’ai mëme eu l’honneur de recevoir la visite de moines qui m’ont posé des questions tres interessantes sur mon travail d’iconologia. Je termine ma résidence bientôt. Pour le moment, je profite de cette chance UNIQUE!!! Salutations bout du monde!
In Kangnung City near from the ocean… near from deep stories, I came to be a part of that Symposium. I met artists from Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan, China and USA. There were almost 20 presentations, Artistict workshops and a funny way to have fun. Ideas and life style are so differents, but in the same way, we are writting story and setting the futur.
Pictures coming soon:)
xxx
:Jeanne
From Korea to Quebec, I am in the future…
Has
lla, Is just wonderfull. 
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This evening I did my presentation and that was great (even though there were Korean and Taiwan translator ). This artistic event is a real challenge for artists and we must have to share our different reality!
I would like to tell you mor ebut I must go sleeping. well JE PENSE A VOUS TOUS QUI ETES DANS MON COEUR!
(SOON)Plus de détails sur le symposium en cliquant ICI sur la p@ge Bl@nche de la Ch@mbreBl@nche.
Voici mon Contact Skype pour les intéressés: Jeanne_lb
Espace toujours en développement!
