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The key determinants of meaning in this piece are the choice of video material for the training database, the choice of test subject/performers, the nature of the test stimulus to be filtered through the subject, and the output display context. The artworks below give some sense of the poetic/aesthetic ballpark I am aiming for, at least as far as subject matter.

My key aesthetic references in this piece are Andy Warhol’s Disaster Paintings, and Jim Campbell’s Ambiguous Icons. Though separated by time and medium, the share an air of pathos. Warhol’s Disaster Paintings show both a fascination with tragedy and equanimity in the face of it. Prompted by disasters in the news stories of the day (such as the fatal-food poisoning event in Tuna Fish Disaster) his screen-print paintings reproduce imagery of those events ad nauseum.

**http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014465

*http://phenomenologyftw.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/saussure.gif

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