The "Diagram" as the Audio-Visual Image

In this research, we will examine another means of "information visualization" and "mapping of information" by use of philosophical concepts. Firstly, by referring to Michel Foucault's This is not a pipe, we will propose the "diagram" is a conceptual entity which separates and re-combines seeing and saying. The corresponding conditions of seeing and saying within several eras and periods were his main focus. Secondly, we shall examine how "information" has forced upon us corresponding ways of seeing and saying, but also ways of thinking and behaving. According to Gilles Deleuze, we need to find the "counter-information" that separates and re-combines the audio-visual image. This type of information will be found in a few of the media arts and visualization techniques employed by them. Finally, we will clarify the relations between science-philosophy-art, and argue that they make it possible to conceive of other ways of understanding our thoughts and bodies.