pictoplayers, 2002, standbilder aus dem Pikto-Projekt / pictoplayers, 2002, stills from the picto project
		Pictoplayers is a continually growing iconicity project that was initiated by the artists Yan Breuleux and Kim Dotty Hachmann in 2002. They both use pictoral language to convey their ideas. After they met, they started communi- cating by animated pictograms via internet in order to find out where communication with pictograms can lead to. The basic idea is that signs receive and change their meaning by the way how and in which context they are presented. Pictoplayers benefits from the pictorial language in contrast to the written word as pictograms convey a message not limited to verbal language. This type of medium offers the opportunity to interpret its content verbally in various ways. Here the emphasis is much more on a shared world of ideas rather than a shared language. A global aspect appears as this picture language can be interpreted by all the people of the world.