Medium Cool
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Session: Teaching Semiotics to an AI
On October 30th! A session exploring an effort to teach semiotics to an AI.
SEMIOVOX 3Q2026
Fascinating work and fun creative projects…
Making Sense
"I'm interested in projects where meaning-making can change how a system understands a problem."
Ipanema Goldglow
"It reveals itself only briefly before vanishing again."
Die Gedanken Sind Frei
"There are always voices of resistance."
Making Sense
"Only if the premises are good can you arrive at an interesting analytical insight."
Gen Z Purple
"Gen Z Purple pushes red and blue back together and keeps the friction."
Zazous
"Êtes-vous swing?"
Making Sense
"Why is it only design and advertising programs that offer courses in applied semiotics? I really wish that business schools would offer them too."
Cosmonaut Keep
"It’s the outline, the structure, the architecture, if you will, that counts.”
Elle in Blue
"I'd been obsessed with the colourful iBooks since an inciting incident in Legally Blonde…"
Once Upon a Honeymoon
"Suave antifa films that were also rollicking entertainment were, briefly, the state of the art."
Making Sense
"Semiotic analysis requires theoretical knowledge, cultural sensitivity, and critical thinking. When AI is used without those foundations, the result can be superficial, inconsistent, or simply wrong."
Fatimid Gold
"Fatimid works like this one deploy the color gold as a semiotic bridge between faith and everyday life."