A written language is a complex tissage of signs and symbols. A conventional system of coherent patterns with which one seeks to express meaningful actions, ideas, thoughts and feelings. What happens though when one loses the capacity to decipher these visual constructs?
My present experience of text has become increasingly fragmentary. Words become a fragile material, at times liquid and forever from my grasp, at other times brittle and disintegrating before my eyes. distraKted takes my work with language to a more radical level. In distorting, displacing and at times pulverising textual elements, the work is an attempt to express the rhapsodic patchwork of these linguistic fragments and their fragility.
The work is presented as an artist curation of 24 unique digital pieces. These works have been made using custom‑made software written in Processing. Each piece has evolved from textual elements for which a special font was also developed in part for some of the iterations.
Mark Webster
Mark Webster was born in Canada, raised in England and currently lives in France. After graduating in London with a modern languages degree in 1997, he moved to Paris and began to orientate his work towards the arts. This has involved an eclectic mix of activities in diverse areas such as animation, sound design, graphic design, teaching and even a stint as a journalist working in the field of motion design. In the last couple of years, his efforts have been devoted to developing a body of personal artistic work that is driven by curiosity to explore and experiment with code based media. He creates art and graphic work primarily using custom‑made software tools along with computational and generative strategies as his main approach.
Works Available
All 24 works remain viewable and collectable on Verse, with full provenance and trading history. For press and private enquiries, contact the curator directly.