Communication

Russell W. Zears, former NASA scientist, talks about art relying on communication via symbols that both the sender and receiver share as a common referent, usually a well-defined set of objects or situations that many people have agreed have a certain meaning.  He further states that we find that when our current symbols do not adequately express our meaning, we “borrow” from the artist his interpretation and standardize it and make it our own. In this way art serves as the adventure by which humanity expands its shared ability to understand and communicate.     

“Pricer’s data mining finds visualizations of meaning buried in the data, providing new imagery for expressing that meaning.  Where that meaning has not been previously fully expressed, he provides a new potential symbol, and when others can relate to it as his intended, there is added the collective ability to communicate that meaning.”