Obscured Variants
2023 — Sculptures, dimensions variable
SLA printed object, matte black lacquer finish, steel plate
SLA printed object, matte black lacquer finish, steel plate
The SLA printed sculptures Obscured Variants are based on Abstract Language Model, a machine created semiotic system which is based on all existing human signs (more than 65.000 characters included in the Unicode basic multilingual plane system), but transferred into and recreated with a machine-learned model. The artificial neural network creates latent points where the most accurate representation of the characters is achieved, but also enables interpolation between them. As a result of this process, among two previously distinct characters now infinite characters come into existence. The revealing of these obscured variants between the known characters leads to the idea of a transitionless or non-binary universal language, whose possible expressions are represented in these static, three-dimensional objects of interpolations between latent points of selected models.
A detailed description for the research and process for Abstract Language Model can be found here (Abstract Language Model with Monolith YW, 2020-2022).