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Sign Language
Exhibit ‘Dialogical’ a two-way ‘conversation’ about map making and reading
n 1972, NASA launched the Pioneer spacecraft, the first spacecraft that, if all went according to plan, would eventually leave our solar system. At the time, an enterprising student convinced NASA that a plaque explaining our species and our location in the cosmos be attached in case someone, or some thing, found the craft.
That forward-looking student, one Carl Sagan, was assigned the daunting responsibility of coming up with a symbology that might be understood by a random non-human entity.
The success of symbols used in communicating information is directly related to the ease at which we recognize them. Cartography has been tackling this enigma for centuries. A map-maker must rely on patterns, symbols and colors that have some convention; green for grass and trees and blue for water.
Map making then is an inspiration and challenge both, waiting for enterprising artists as well as scientists to take advantage of and interpret. Dialogical, the current show at Darger HQ, features “language and map imagery to create a conceptual analysis of how images and language from the media work together to convey information.”