mel mcveigh - visual artist, photographer, chief digital officer

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visual conversations — the limits of my language

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Wittgenstein

My new project is the perfect mix of experience & algorithm, art & science, human & machine, images & words. At the centre of it all are visual conversations, narratives designed by humans but stitched together with some lovely machine learning algorithms.

My role at the moment is help design products and services to give life to these photographs, memories and experiences. No need to focus on the specifics of the role itself, I’d rather share some thoughts about narrative and language, and how for me the interpretation of stories through languages in it’s many forms is being challenged on a daily basis.

Before we look at images, let’s start with words. It will feel tangential, that’s on purpose, so bear with me.

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