Filenames do not permit Special Characters just as in real life anything outside the straight and narrow is viewed with a degree of suspicion. Many parallels have been drawn between truth and fiction, yet the digital realm is viewed with a bit of skepticism. AI and ML both excite and arouse dread. And Wide-Eyed Special Characters are those who are not deterred by such judgement, they remain curious no matter what!
Wide-Eyed Special Characters debuts at
FUTURE LANDSCAPES – VENICE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2024
Venice | February 16 – March 01, 2024
Special characters deliver results regularly and have probably pervaded the realm of imagination for many. Wide eyed and ever eager to deliver to the best of their configured functionality. They explore the process of designated personification. Wide Eyed Special Characters are visually tactile and occupy a conjured reality. Thus, the dollar sign ascertains value to numbers when placed ahead of them, hashtags categorize, asterisk – a wildcard character, denotes pointers to footnotes, censor offensive words. Predetermined in their functionality, they present vast differences in outcome. Which generally depends on the combination of instances.
Comic Book Heros
Comic books paint their heroes in vivid strokes of dark and bright. The protagonist goes to the far corner of the world to save the earth and its people. The figures are generally depicted with perfect anatomy. The villain has wicked arched eyebrows, the hero has compassioned eyes. Ambiguity has no place in Comic Books. The protagonist with perfect pecks and hair that settles back in smooth layers even after the most rambunctious jostle!
What’s more, Japanese comics envisioned eroticism in cartoons. Even, non-human characters like Pokémon and Monsters Inc. started manifesting with the development of robots like Sofia from Hanson robotics and other cute heartwarming and useful house robots. In many ways the characters conform to the human anatomy with the bilaterally symmetrical limb configuration for the most part and sometimes not.
Furthermore, the wide-eyed special characters are in the consciousness and daily experience of all end users. When they appear with human characteristics and concerns, complete with fuzzy and cuddly qualities, they become the new genre cartoon heroes within the thumb tap of every electronic end user. They may be introduced in any environment real or imaginary, they will tell stories of sustainability and conservation, inclusion, and community service through their universal binary persona with tireless enthusiasm.
Therefore it is it possible, that in embracing those that do not look like us, are yet so familiar, we finally eliminate tired, didactic narratives on discrimination and prejudice? Do we learn to love those who are dissimilar and challenge our version of reality ever so simply? And then, the question to ask – if truth is stranger than fiction, can binary have more facets than non-binary?
