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Viktor Timofeev, Human Abecedary: Inter-Letters (2024)

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Exhibited in: One to Zero
Medium

Video

Video (color, sound) 1920 x 1080 pixels, 60 fps Duration variable, loop
Secondary Market
Blockchain
Minted
24 April 2024

Human Abecedary (2024) is a generative alphabet that takes the standard pool of Latin letters and systematically abstracts them by cutting them up and swapping their parts around. This process reorients familiar components, namely recognizable letters, and mutates them indefinitely to appear “foreign,” solely by rearranging them. The work calls to mind fictional languages and asemic writing systems that have no national identity—an algorithmic way to estrange the alphabet from itself. The series made for Feral File focuses on an expanding, cumulative pool of letters, beginning with permutations between the first two letters (A and B) and ending with the entire alphabet. Each edition iterates through twenty-four cycles, generating hundreds of mutated, semi-legible hybrid glyphs.