Primal Sketch
Printed circuit board, 10x8cm each, 2020
Installation view at “Liquid Logic”, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
Illustrations showing different configurations of an early algorithm used for computer vision, as described in David Marr’s book Vision from 1982, manually etched on an electronic circuit board. The algorithm was demonstrated using an image of a modernist abstract sculpture by Henry Moore.
While demonstrating an algorithm that is supposed to create a computational representation of one of the physiological mechanisms of vision, the author ironically chooses to demonstrate the results of such an algorithm on a picture of a modernist sculpture, which culturally signifies an absolute departure from naturalistic representation. The resulting illustrations are unrecognisable. The PCB itself is thus the only cultural object that is emblematic of the relationship between a contemporary image and material reality.
