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Leading Memory
16" x 49"
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Artist Statement: With new technologies emerging that will impose new thought patterns on
our culture, one could easily imagine a situation where cameras using pattern
recognition become decision makers for a lot of what we do. Without a humanbuilt
database full of childhood (and adult) memories and ideas, a camera can
only make so many associations on an absolute level.
This work utilizes pattern-recognition technology to interpret the physical world.
Key characters from an image representing a memory are replaced by images the
computer has recognized as being those characters. If saved as part of an empty
database, as in this situation, the abstract results impose new possibilities for
what that memory might now be. When the program recognizes certain shapes as
sad, happy, or arrogant, these abstract shapes take on an entirely new meaning.
Exaggeration of these ideas becomes a ridiculous parody of human interpretation.
However, it's not such an outrageous stretch when compared to our own approach
to categorizing and evaluating a given situation and its elements.
The system used to create this work was attached to a computer capable of
accessing much more information than human recollection and much more
immediately via the internet or any other database. The experience of proof
is lost through this process, and the computer has only the absolute word of
its programmers to shape its understanding.
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