icon

Variant(s): also ikonFunction: nounEtymology: Latin, from Greek eikōn, fromeikenai to resembleDate: 15721 : a usually pictorial representation : image2 [Late Greek eikōn, from Greek] : a conventional religious image typically painted on a small wooden panel and used in the devotions of Eastern Christians3 : an object of uncritical devotion : idol4 : emblem, symbol <the house became an icon of 1960's residential architecture — Paul Goldberger>5 a : a sign (as a word or graphic symbol) whose form suggests its meaning b : a graphic symbol on a computer display screen that usually suggests the type of object represented or the purpose of an available function— icon·ic \ī- k̍ä-nik\ adjective— icon·i·cal·ly \-ni-k(ə-)lē\ adverbhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/icon

“ikonoklash” is an hybrid provocative concept. It aims to go to the backbone of the contemporary engines of construction of image(s), ikon(s). This project intends to play and reflect about what are in the present the “iconoclasts” = “ikonoklashers”, the people and the web as concept(s) that operate change, that have mutated and struggled against established / sacred icon worshippers.