Tru ValU is an investigation of beauty and the 216 web safe color palette. The site responds to visitor selection by displaying color relationships based on mathematical determinates.
I am thinking
about containment and control... the systems and codification of beauty, and
how these are sanctioned and internalized in larger social constructs.
I am thinking
about centralities, the randomness of designations, and the reduction of our
global palette to 216 'safe' elements.
I am thinking
about the need/desire/propensity and willingness to count, and the values we
place on numbers however arbitrary their assignments/connections to things meaningful
in our lives.
I am thinking
about the expansion of simple mathematical concepts into metaphors both hidden
and inherent in information technologies and the implications thereof.
I am thinking
about individuality, plurality and the singularity of the moment.
I am thinking about what is important, what is not, and how we determine what is meaningful, valuable and relevant in our lives.
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