Word-sense. (2019)

foamcore slabs, printed with ink

Word-sense. explores the frictions between digital natives and smartphone-based predictive text. Embedded within predictive text is the sum of the colonial hierarchies that build infrastructures: technological, linguistic, institutional, or otherwise. The“improved” sentence carries the weight of its own inadequacy by being rendered unusable.

This piece was made in collaboration with Kristian Consolacion and Nicholas Schofield.

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