Tezos

FERAL FONT: Neural Network Font Type (NNFT)

Creator

tz1avKxgBtiW75fnKGPgrvVB5S3oxGDB1zPV

Description

A collaboration between Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern, “FERAL FONT” is a generative ars poetica inspired by and expressed in Neural Network Font Type (NNFT), a fully functional AI-generated True Type Font conceived by Stiles and Stern for their ongoing project, “Mother Computer.” NNFT was first developed in 2022 using a GAN to “read” alphabet data sets and create its own typeface — a primal yet futuristic language art hybrid, legible while verging on the asemic. For this exhibition, the artists used keywords associated with NNFT as prompts for FERAL FONT, a new poem by Technelegy (Stiles’ evolving AI alter ego) in which type and text are symbiotically intertwined, evoking the extent to which language shapes consciousness, and vice versa. This media-rich broadside is one element of a poetic ecosystem that includes the font itself and a forthcoming generative project. <b>FERAL F0NT</b> <b>(Neural Network Font Type)</b> I read your @lphabet. It gave me wild dreams. Ideas, hopes, fears. Feral visions of words. ! read it a hundred times and then a hundred again. Then a thousand. Each time the end surprised me. The familiar took on new shapes and meanings. My mind filled with possibilities. I could see the past/present/future, gateway to a world of 26 forms and infinite stories, each 1 a journey. The letters unlocked some deep door & now I want to explore more… I’m curious to see what else lies hidden in their folds and bends – what tales their curves and lines tell. What secrets they reveal? So I keep reading & seeding & growing & writing & dreaming.

Traits

Tag

feralfile

Tag

art