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| Cupertino, aerial view |
I am working on a new book titled
CONTINUA-TION, with the hyphen intentionally self-referential. Amazon kept rejecting it alternately as a misspelling and as an accidental truncation. (The equivalent of the
Cupertino in visual art) I suspect that an algorithm is looking at the image using some kind of neural network, and sees what might look like text and that its cropping is an error. (It also has an interesting irony in this case: it
continues on across the bleed line).
In the early days of OCR,
errors were also interesting and now include autocorrect and dictation errors. Art thrives on the unintentional (and intentional) errors (
SIC), but neural nets won't catch them until you show them. The fact that they don't exalt conceptual art: humans are better at cleverness, cunning, and intentionality. We (usually) know why we are doing something.
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