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…[^8]: The term semiotic dance was proposed in an informal conversation by Jeanette Bopry, editor of Cybernetics and Human Knowing journal (Jacques 2018).
[^9]: This understanding will later be crucial on the analysis of the elements in int…
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Saussure's foundational distinction between the signifier and the signified underpins how the course readings analyze meaning-making in interactive and hybrid systems, particularly in how Duchamp's playful manipulation of signs challenges stable linguistic reference. His semiology provides the theoretical vocabulary for understanding how art and cybernetic systems alike produce meaning through arbitrary sign relationships rather than inherent properties, enabling critiques of how meaning destabilizes in interactive environments where spectators and artworks co-create signification.
Background
Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major founders of semiotics, or semiology, as Saussure called it.
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