Ver-meer’s Colors

“Ver-meer’s Colors” is a generative art piece attempting to draw attention to the current severe issue of information bias. Whether it is traditional or new, mass or self media, the Views First culture within the social network has created a vicious competition making sensational titles of content just to gain more clicks. The audience thinks they know the full picture of certain information by those titles, which is dangerous because people can be easily manipulated by the person behind the media for one’s benefit. We thought we “see how things will develop from a small clue”, but we “don’t see the forest for the trees”.

Those colorful digital trees in “Ver-mere’s Colors” was generated based on several parts of extraction from one of Johannes Vermeer’s famous paintings. With a zoom-out angle, the audience can try to guess which painting “Ver-mere’s Colors” was based on while with a zoom-in angle, the audience will be immersed in the woods and see the detailed growth of certain trees, which advises the idea of not having a presumption bias or stereotype when treating things and persons before having the overall picture.

“Ver-meer”(Dutch) can be directly translated as “Far-more” in English. “Ver-meer Colors” is not only hinting the surficial meaning of the work is based on Vermeer’s painting colors, but implicitly asking the question of whether we are going to use ” Far-more ” additional colors to spice up the information or we desperately need ” Far-more ” information to clarify the truth. Now, which Vermeer’s painting “Ver-mere’s Color” is based on?