Hypertype
Hypertype was exhibited in collaboration with Verse Works in London in November 2022. It is a series of five original artworks. Each image has been carefully printed using the best quality paper. The exhibition accompanied on line sales of a generative art piece using the same program to produce these images.
• Medium: Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308g
• Image size: 109 x 145cm
• Click on image to see more images.
Hypertype
Hypertype was exhibited in collaboration with Verse Works in London in November 2022. It is a series of five original artworks. Each image has been carefully printed using the best quality paper. The exhibition accompanied on line sales of a generative art piece using the same program to produce these images.
• Medium: Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308g
• Image size: 109 x 145cm
• Click on image to see more images.
Presentation
Hypertype is a generative work that uses text sentiment analysis data as content for creating unique artworks. Text sentiment analysis is a wide-spread technology that attempts to derive emotional content from written text. Much like facial emotion detection, it relies on a classical view of how emotions work in which there is a common belief in universal emotions that are somehow innate in our behaviour and expression.
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.