Black Box looks at decentralizing the idea of intelligence and how machines and AI affect interconnected species: nonhumans, multi-species, and humans. Understanding the future of the human species from a posthumanistic perspective. Investigating biological mechanisms of collective organization, root networks, automata, media culture, and philosophical inquiries into the next step of the human timeline. Have we strayed from nature in our god-like quest for higher intelligence for salvation?
This thesis project was born by examining Cybernetics, the science of communication residing in living organisms and machines alike. Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, theorized that stimulation within our feedback mechanisms through machines was the next step toward what would become artificial intelligence (AI).
To accentuate the systematic, diagrammatic, and interconnected information of research diagram models, I constructed a modular typeface that captured the intellectual graphical communication conveyed within data models. Each letterform houses individual nodes held together by a continuous link to chain an abstraction of thought processes.
Using Spector Books' philosophy of the book production process where many individuals participate in a collective effort, dividers were used as separators to show the bringing of individuals. While the wordmark's letterforms are separated, its legibility as a word still functions well. The wordmark version can live on media outside the book and the monogram variant is seen on book spines where space is limited, but maximizing the logo's bold appearance.
What if? How do I solve this problem? Will it work, if so, how do we proceed? Here lies my photo documentation in the invisible side of design. You won't find flashy final results, but the nitty gritty design process, what fun!
