Duchamp’s eagerness for interactivity is seen in his ludic interactions with the spectator, questioning form and content, and consequently meaning, extended beyond visual arts into language. Throughout his career, Duchamp’s use of signs was…dynamism” (Cobley and Jansz 2012, p. 25). Peirce’s semiotics refers to the study of signs through a triadic relationship among the “[1] Representamen (the sign itself) which has a relation to an [2] Object, which relation entails an [3] Int…
Daniel Chandler
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Daniel Chandler is a semiotics scholar whose work on signs and representation appears in these readings to establish the foundational triadic model (Representamen-Object-Interpretant) through which visual and linguistic meaning-making operates. His engagement with Peirce's semiotics framework enables the course to analyze how interactive artworks like Duchamp's function beyond formal aesthetics—treating the spectator as an active interpreter within a system of signs rather than a passive viewer. This semiotic lens becomes crucial for understanding how algorithmic and computational systems similarly encode meaning through chains of symbolic relationships.
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