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Supernatural Phenomenon
Emergency
Response
Yi Sun/ Yixiao Zhu/ Yuqing Xue/ Yuanyuan Wang/ Jingyi Liu
My team explored the communication state with artificial intelligence, and for most people, talking with AI to get a series of outputs seems almost like magic. Through such associations, we illustrated the potential connections between humans and silicon-based life in a small-scale exhibition. In our imagination, human beings and silicon-based lifes are two very different creatures, and the process of our contact with such species is bound to have countless unexpected additional products and unexpected of phenomena. The inevitable complexity of the outcome of such exchanges is our link and metaphor for the connection between ordinary people and AI. This exhibition includes sculptures, interactive projections, experimental effects, and manuals.
I was responsible for all language creation and manual production. This manual is one of the basic languages designed by our team, which records the process of communication between silicon-based life and us, like a mysterious archive. In my opinion, language serves as an important bridge for communication between two species, and at the same time, it also offers us a very good perspective for imagining silicon-based life. Conceptually, the manual shows an attempt by silicon-based life forms to transcribe their language, resulting in intermediary products due to drastically different linguistic systems. It's not exactly the language of silicon-based life as we think it is, nor is it our language. I created it based on the most common language, English, with 26 letters and a few basic symbols. It is a language composed of signal points and arcs, serving as one of the fundamental logic for our space design, It's also a virtual archive.
In the initial stage of the design process, I asked ChatGPT a series of questions, covering questions like "What are the most commonly used words?" and "If silicon-based lifes could speak, what would they say?" Subsequently, I compiled ChatGPT's responses and compiled them into this manual, focusing on designing words such as "human," "language," "time," "world," "male," and "female." In terms of storytelling, I arrange these letter-like patterns into dynamic forms that may appear in space, which I call words. Then repeating these dynamic basic patterns (words) in certain paths to form complex pattern combinations into more rhythmic patterns I call sentences. Such patterns can completely be reconstructed into human syntax, expressing meaning in the sequence of letters-words-sentences-articals, making it easy to understand and forming a more rigorous system. This group of languages can be seen as evidence of attempted communication between humans and non-humans. It shows the existing elements of human language (letters make up words, words make up sentences, sentences make up texts ), as well as the components of language that humans do not use. This language visually forms patterns, the more it says, the harder it is to understand. These patterns are rooted in human language but exhibit imagination towards the syntax of non-human languages.