Benjamin Forster: A Written Perspective

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Artist(s):

Benjamin Forster

Title:

A Written Perspective

Exhibition:

DAC Online Exhibition 2015: Enhanced Vision - Digital Video
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Creation Year:

2012

Medium:

Video

Size:

15:16 min.

Artist Statement:

This video work is in part an illustration of the philosophical proposition, “the world is written”, and in part a critical experiment into the ever increasing rationalisation of imagery though ubiquitous mediation. Using a custom text detection algorithm, footage from around the Joondalup Shopping City has been processed; everything that is not determined a word is erased. This custom algorithm does not look for known letters, but rather in an attempt to avoid anglocentrism checks for properties common to the written word across all cultures.