Andrew François

Lead Web Designer, The Institute for Interactive Media and Learning,
The University of Technology, New South Wales, Australia.

Anne Bamford

Lecturer, The Institute for Interactive Media and Learning,
The University of Technology, New South Wales, Australia

Generating Meaning and Visualising Ourselves:
Graphic Symbolism and the Interactive Online Cartoon

Abstract

From a visual literacy perspective, images engender a diversity of meanings. Cartooning is one form of visual expression that has the ability to present layers of understanding in suggestive forms combining visual and textual literacies. Reading cartoons especially those with editorial or satirical intent, reveal frames of meaning and graphic symbolism encoded through socio-cultural understandings.

This paper will exemplify the use of cartooning as a communicative medium and focus on the integration of cartooning into web technologies.

Bionotes

Andrew François is currently lead web designer at the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. A graduate of the Swinburne School of Film and Television he has produced animation, collaborated with artists and has taught subjects in interactive multimedia and web design. He was a participant in the New Talent Pavilion at MILIA'98 in Cannes France and recently a team-member in the award winning Stuff-Art99 online initiative.

Anne Bamford has lectured in Art Education and is currently lecturing in interactive media and learning design at the nationally and internationally recognised Institute for Interactive Media and Learning at the University of Technology in Sydney. Anne is chair of the Australian Institute of Art Educators National Research Council and on the editorial committee of Australian Art Education. She is the Director of Visual Arts for the Centre for Research in Education and the Arts. Anne has extensive experience in developing curriculum support material for teachers and interactive media in tertiary teaching and learning. Her current research interests are in visual literacy and adolescents and the use of interactive media in teaching and learning.

Presentation Type
30 min. Paper

Presentation Equipment and Other Requests
Mac G3 laptop compatible data projector/connectors
Overhead projector, Slide projector

Speaking Date/Time Restrictions

Country
Australia