MAGCD Unit 3 | Writing Submission Project Title: Read me again Name: Lin Zhang Date: May 21, 2025 Abstract This project raises the question: “Where are the boundaries of meaning when public graphic symbols are misread in cross-cultural contexts?” Starting from everyday sign in public spaces, I explore how meaning is not embedded in graphics themselves,…

From Physical Medium to Digital Visual Transformation Introduction Photography has long been considered a direct representation of the world, a medium that faithfully records reality. However, with the advancement of digital technology, the essence of photography has undergone unprecedented changes. In particular, during the digitization process of film photography, how physical media are scanned, converted,…

Modern technology is profoundly changing our visual culture and the way we communicate information, and in Literature Down to a Pixel, Dennis Tenen explores the changing nature of visual culture in the digital age, highlighting the impact of technology on literature and cultural experience. Meanwhile, artist Patrick Thomas has responded to the phenomenon of “truth…

Reference & Reflection Plain Text , Chapter 5. Literature Down to a pixel ,Dennis Tenen, 2017 In Dennis Tenen’s work Literature Down to a Pixel, he explores how the nature of literature in the digital age has changed through technological intervention.   As with Tenen’s discussion of how texts are screened and re-presented to readers,…

Annotate Bibliography Lister, M.(2013) The photographic image in Digital Culture. Driven by technology and algorithms, the nature and meaning of photography has changed. The shift from film to digital algorithmic processing has changed the way images are made and processed into a computational, programmable medium that affects our perception and interpretation of images, such as…

Week 1 For my first week’s work, I chose to convert images into text.Since my process is very subjective, most of my 100 iterations were based on ASCII. Reflection In this iterative process, I’m always giving the computer the logic of what I want the pixels of the image to be transformed into. I’m very…

In this project, we have used food and tableware as a vehicle for UAL’s sustainable food policy in the form of a publication. Finally, we created a short video to present them. In our discussion, we would like to integrate the policy into the daily life of tableware and eating, so that we can actually…

Climate justice is a widely discussed topic, and I had not even heard of the concept before this. For this project, I believe that an effective policy should be able to be widely disseminated and understood, and that its accessibility should be very broad.UAL’s sustainable food policy, despite its initiatives, may be too general and…