semantic failure
The visual collapse of language
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semantic failure is a generative installation that treats an endless essay as a visual instrument. It begins as legible text, retelling Chris Ferrie's The Meaning of Life, According to Science from a different random point each time it runs. As the system searches for correlations between characters, connecting lines accumulate between glyphs, and language resolves into form. At speed, semantic meaning becomes graphical mass. The work locates the threshold where legibility gives out and something else takes over.
The piece comes out of Kojjio's own experience of immigration: arriving in a country whose alphabet he could not yet read, and finding that visual rhythm registered as pattern before the script resolved into language.
Sound design by Sasha Kojjio.
Artist
Sasha Kojjio
Sasha Kojjio is a light artist working across audiovisual installations and generative art. Informed by natural systems and animal expressiveness, his practice examines the connections between language, technology and human perception. Kojjio’s works have been presented in exhibitions and festivals across America, Europe and Asia.