Computer/Vision

2024

A screen in a museum showing a screen split in three, with — from left to right — a code excerpt, a line drawing in Metafont, and a recognoízed sign reading »Tr«. All on a bright orange background.

A contribution to the »Quasi« exhibition at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography, Pasadena. On show through to 28 April 2024.

Statement:
»It is quite easy to have a concept of a given letter i.e., an A or an Ω. It is not too difficult to tell As from non-As such as B or any other letter. Yet, to come up with a set of rules to describe what makes an A an A, is a more complicated endeavor. But what if you have to decide? What if you are given a randomly created letter and you need to say what it is? Computer/Vision is an invitation to think about the limits of computation. What does it mean to have clear cut categories? Without the possibility of blurry borders, of nuance? This work explores these questions by giving a computer full control over the random creation of letters, their labelling using text recognition, and their inclusion into a writing system. Computer/Vision will evolve during the exhibition period, adding more and more characters to a font, that is open source and available for download.«

An exhibtion view of the »Quais« exhibition at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for typography. Computer/Vision is seen in the background on the left.A screen in a museum showing a screen split in three, with — from left to right — a code excerpt, a line drawing in Metafont, and a recognoízed sign reading »BR«. All on a bright blue background.An exhibtion view of the »Quais« exhibition at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for typography. Computer/Vision is seen in the background on the right.An exhibtion view of the »Quais« exhibtion at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for typography. Computer/Vision is seen on the left.
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