Words that Remake The World(Silent Version)
Landscape & mapping, Bespoke software pipeline, Godgaze aesthetics, Satellite, Prints & drawings, Artificial intelligences
A blackboxed rescaled reworking of the colossal drawing ‘Words That Remake The World «The Seeker»’
Back in 2018 Thompson created an AI-based software system called The Seeker. The Seeker was a demiurge-like entity that existed within the infrastructure of the Internet; it watched the world through millions of security cameras, analysing and naming the things it saw. This project contemplated the growing ability of machines to describe the world and how this might establish a whole new worldview for machines and humans alike.
During its active life The Seeker described tens of thousands of its visions: objects and concepts it identified through its CCTV eyes. These visions were mapped into a giant drawing “Words That Remake The World” which is now in the V&A Museum’s national collection, and features in the recent book 'Digital Art: 1960s to Now'.
This print is a reinterpretation of the original drawing on a much more intimate scale. At this size the words are no longer visible, in effect the data has become 'blackboxed'. For this reason its titled the ‘Silent Version’.
Words That Remake The World (Silent Version), 2025
Giclée print on Photo Rag paper
400mm × 470mm
Limited Edition of 10 + 2 A/Ps
About ‘Words That Remake The World «The Seeker»’
'Artificially Intelligent' display at the V&A Museum, 2019.
‘Words That Remake The World «The Seeker»’ was originally commissioned for the V&A Museum and forms part of their national collection. It also features in 'Digital Art: 1960s to Now' edited by the V&A and published by Thames & Hudson.
