Visual Culture

‘Visual Culture’ has to do with the creation, transmission and perpetuation of ideas in culture by visual means. Imagery, including shapes, colors, logos, fonts, apparel, and more broadly, ‘styles’, become symbols acting to carry and transmit meaning in a particular culture, and communicate ideology. A culture’s symbols can originate in that culture, or be a combination of new and borrowed ideas and meaning from others. For instance ‘tie-dye’, although dating back to ~500 AD, in the West is seen primarily as a symbol of hippie culture, communicating a particular set of social, political, and lifestyle beliefs. What can we identify in the Singularity and Transhumanist community as playing this particular role, and what ideology does some of the present visual culture communicate? Transhumanist visual culture can be characterized broadly as forward looking imagery that captures Transhumanist concepts, such as augmented [...]