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Dic.Primal-Symbol-b

Dictionary of Primal Behaviour

Internet Database and Digital Prints
2003

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  • Photo doc
  • Essay: The Primal Chat
  • + more
  • Excerpt from Graham Pullin's book

  • Art and Language

    A database of phonetically expressive words transferred into visual codes

  • Keywords / Tags

    • Database art,
    • Language,
    • Entropy,
    • Primary emotions,
    • Emotion,
    • Expression,
    • Facial expression,
    • Affective communication,
    • Dictionary,
    • Interjection,
    • Nonverbal,
    • Code,
    • Information,
    • Message,
    • Symbol,
    • Meaning,
    • Aesthetic communication,
    • AAC - augmentative and alternative communication,
    • Disability

  • Art-Bio:

Facial Expression and Symbol: mm

dic. [print] 01

Facial Expression and Symbol: oops

dic. [print] 02

Facial Expression and Symbol: boohoo

dic. [print] 03

Facial Expression and Symbol: yuck

dic. [print] 04

Facial Expression and Symbol: eek

dic. [print] 05

Facial Expression and Symbol: hurrah

dic. [print] 06

Dictionary of Primal Behaviour at Ars Electornica “CODE”, 2003

dic. AEC 01

Dictionary of Primal Behaviour at Ars Electornica “CODE”, 2003

dic. AEC 02

Dictionary of Primal Behaviour at Ars Electornica “CODE”, 2003

dic. AEC 03

Dictionary of Primal Behaviour at Ars Electornica “CODE”, 2003

dic. AEC 04

Dictionary of Primal Behaviour at Ars Electornica “CODE”, 2003; Maywa Denki and NHK Japan TV

dic. AEC 05

Dictionary of Primal Behaviour at Ars Electornica “CODE”, 2003

dic. AEC 06

Dictionary of Primal Behaviour at Ars Electornica “CODE”, 2003; presentation at electrolobby

dic. AEC 07

Dictionary of Primal Behaviour at “Hilchot Shchenim” The Israeli Center for Digital Art, 2003

dic. Israel

Gallery Golden Eye, The exhibition of the year award, Novi Sad, 2003

dic. Zlatno Oko 01

Gallery Golden Eye, The exhibition of the year award, Novi Sad, 2003

dic. Zlatno Oko 02

Gallery Golden Eye, The exhibition of the year award, Novi Sad, 2003

dic. Zlatno Oko 03

Gallery Golden Eye, The exhibition of the year award, Novi Sad, 2003

dic. Zlatno Oko 04

Dictionary of Primal Behaviour at “Viper”, Basel, 2003; press: SonntagsZeitung

dic. PRESS

UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS, Japan

dic. award Unesco

Award at “MAD 03” 2nd meeting of experimental art in Madrid, Spain

dic. award MAD 03

An aesthetic communication experiment that combines verbal and nonverbal codes in an effort to create a message that is understandable to wide audience despite of their cultural background, linguistic knowledge or a world knowledge.

Urtica’s statement:

Communication is a vital part of every community. Ability of a species, to exchange information through sounds, signals, signs or movements help them to survive. In order to communicate humans have developed language as a major means of sharing information or expressing their thoughts and feelings. There are about 6000 languages spoken in the world today, but as many linguists believe only half of these languages will still be spoken by the end of XXI century.

Dictionary of Primal Behaviour includes entities that express primary emotions and behaviours that might be common to all humans despite to their socio-economic differentiation. The idea is to form a multi-lingual platform for affective communication by using words that sound similar in different languages. Those words, interjections, are used to express strong feelings such as shock, pain, or pleasure. They are primary spoken but in Dictionary of Primal Behaviour they are transferred to visual communication.

The dictionary is made as syncretic mixture of verbal and nonverbal codes: Phonetically Expressive Word, Graphically Expressive Symbol and Facial Expression. It is a database of interjections (a words used to express a feelings) translated into visual codes.