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Mark Webster
JAN 08
distraKted
Mark Webster
distraKted
24 artworks
Ivan Zhyzhkevych
A written language is a complex tissage of signs and symbols. A conventional system of coherent patterns with which one seeks to express meaningful actions, ideas, thoughts and feelings. What happens though when one loses the capacity to decipher these visual constructs? My present experience of text has become increasingly fragmentary. Words become a fragile material, at times liquid and forever from my grasp, at other times brittle and disintegrating before my eyes. distraKted takes my work with language to a more radical level. In distorting, displacing and at times pulverising textual elements, the work is an attempt to express the rhapsodic patchwork of these linguistic fragments and their fragility. The work is presented as an artist curation of 24 unique digital pieces and will be available at verse works. These works have been made using custom-made software written in Processing. Each piece has evolved from textual elements for which a special font was also developed in part for some of the iterations. Mark Webster
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FEB 2023
Neural Drawings
OPEN
Mark Webster
Neural Drawings
140 editions
• Editions: 20 • Medium: Printed on Rives Velin paper • Image size: 21 X 14cm Each image comes as a limited edition of unique prints, each printed by hand using a traditional etching press and from one master plate. Micrographia is part of a series entitled Neural Drawings that began in late 2021. The initial idea for this series took inspiration from Santiago Ramón Cajal’s illustrations of neurones. This body of work also builds on earlier personal thoughts revolving around the theme of memory and emotion. I'm interested in the role that emotion has to play in memory and consequently how we construct as well as deconstruct thoughts. These ideas are accompanied by my readings of Antonio Damasio, Oliver Sacks, Robert Sapolsky and Lisa Feldman Barrett. image info On a technical level, the work combines traditional generative algorithms with contemporary neural network techniques. To create these images I first make my own tools using software as my main medium. I write programs that execute algorithms. The images generated from these software tools are then fed into a Convolutional Neural Network in order to explore the formal structures and apply further stylistic features. Finally, and to accentuate the concept of memory, the idea of impression, each image has been printed using a traditional printing press and from one master matrix. The particularity of this body of work is in the mixing of a variety of techniques. The creation of the image starts from a very abstract idea and develops from concept to text (as code) to digital form and eventually finding its final state as a physical printed work of art. Each of these processes make for a unique artwork.
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NOV 2022
Hypertype
Mark Webster
Hypertype
150 artworks
”What I am trying to achieve is a means for transformation of one media that is manipulative of one’s attention in order to instill dogma, to another that is manipulative of one’s attention in order to encourage introspection. In order to explore this idea, I've chosen a variety of news articles, research papers and presentations on the subjects of emotion, facial recognition and affective computing and analysed them using IBM's NLP Sentiment API. This raw data is then used as content for creating unique generative pieces that play with text and typographic form. Hypertype is first and foremost a textual work that relies on the visual interaction of a variety of typographic signs and letters. There is visual content based on a language system and there is visual context based on a subject matter - computers automating humans.” - Mark Webster Font design: Simon Renaud Controls Press the 's' key on your keyboard when in fullscreen mode to download an SVG file of the artwork.
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