Law Text Culture
Iconistory
Abstract
Iconistory is software for representing complex historical events in highly simplified terms. More specifically, it enables the user to represent events as 32 x 32 pixel icons with short accompanying text descriptions. At one level it is intended as a piece of deadpan parody, adopting the guise of anonymous desktop software in order to push the current state of media to an absurd extreme. But also, in a less ironic fashion, it is concerned with discerning layers of hidden significance within the obvious and schematic.Citation
Bunt, B.
(2008)
"Iconistory,"
Law Text Culture:
Vol. 12: Iss. 1, Article 11.
Available at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol12/iss1/11
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