with Firstness) to change the interpretant (what we associate with—icon, quality given to the object, Thirdness). The title Fountain changes the denotation when used to represent a urinal, in this case, changing how the spectator perceives …Caldwell, W. (2015). Multi/Inter/Trans – disciplinary, What’s the difference? Retrieved March 25, 2018 from https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/grad5104/multiintertrans-disciplinary-whats-the-difference/
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Umberto Eco
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Eco's semiotic framework—particularly his theory of how signs generate multiple layers of meaning through interpretants and denotation—provides crucial vocabulary for understanding how artworks like Duchamp's Fountain shift meaning when their context or framing changes. The readings invoke his semiotics to explain how machine learning systems and AI interfaces similarly produce meaning not through fixed reference but through chains of interpretation shaped by their users' encounters. This makes Eco essential for the seminar's project of analyzing how computational systems, like artworks, actively construct reality rather than simply represent it.
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