A Written Perpective
- Digital video
- Benjamin Forster
This digital work is a fascinating analysis of the way that language shapes our perceptions of environment, both on commercial and on personal levels.
“This video is in part an illustration of the philosophical proposition, “the world is written”, and in part a critical experiment into the ever-increasing rationalization of imagery through 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 anglo-centrism, checks for properties common to the written word across all cultures.” - Artist statement
Winner of the Award for Excellence category of the 2012 Invitation Art Award.
- Edition: Edition of 3
- Collections: Art Collection