Forma e linguaggio. La comunicazione nell'interazione grafica

Abstract

This issue of the journal proposes reflections on the relationship between drawing, writing, and digital culture, considering how the early debates on computerisation, its promises, fears, and cultural disorientation, resonate today with discussions on artificial intelligence and the automatic generation of images.
The editorial highlights the enduring tension between spoken dialogue and written text, extending the parallel to the evolving interaction between text and drawing. This interplay, long central to the science of representation, now faces new challenges: the risk of homogenisation through machine learning, the need for semantic interoperability, and the fragmentation between scientific and humanistic cultures. The volume’s contributions explore these themes through multiple perspectives: drawing as a space of interaction, a repository of memory, a critical reinterpretation of art, and a cognitive framework mediating between technology and imagination. From speculative visions of the future to immersive digital environments and relational gardens, the essays investigate how drawing structures communication, generates knowledge, and redefines spaces of representation. Geometry, mathematics, art, and digital media converge, reaffirming drawing as a persistent and adaptive language that bridges past traditions and new paradigms.