Reformation of 50,000 Letters examines how language is mediated by programmed code languages under colonialism. The forms were created with a recurrent neural network fed with 50,000 world-written languages to train the computer to remember to write languages other than Roman English over one million times, with intelligence to generate new letterforms. New forms operate as a memorial and preserved artifact of what the computer fails to remember, learn, and know under its bias architecture.
Cast ceramic, carved prototyping foam, CNC milled acrylic, recurrent neural network, latent space interpolation, 50,000 world letterforms, 2017