FUTURE:FirstDraft

  • Daria Zhestyreva

The image featuring google results with «the future» in the search tab revealed for me what most people expect from the future, and breaking down the imagery of the search results reveals peoples emotional expectations reflected in the color pallet, as well as some identifiable portions of the found images. The piece was cascadely torn with a simple image processing algorithm, visually describing waves and thought process of future existence. The keywords for the image search are based on the filename, the link text pointing to the image, and text adjacent to the image, and based it and the opinion of others what the future holds, we can can see what is most expected of humans - hope. It is reflected through the color-scheme of what initially was a grid. The rupture and fragmentation reflects the process of imagination running from one bit to another to create a full picture, revealing most of the image. Still, it has some concealed parts. This process allows to fully sense hope through archetypal color choice of what google thinks humans want to see: green and blue chunks of distorted pictures overflow the scroll almost until the cut edge of the paper. Interestingly, closer to the end of it colors loose their intensity and blank spots tend prevail more and more, as if it was left undecided.