Artist: Hiu Yan Lee

Genre: Interactive Installation

“Talking to others” displays an alternative timeline: Chinese did not assume the foreign structure of Morse code and produced a unique encoding.

It contemplates a different reality and puts Eurocentric hegemony of Morse code in perspective. One can use stroke-based input systems such as Cangjie to write in structurally natural way. Unlike pinyin that uses an alphabetical proxy Canjie could have sparked an encoding method inspired by its internal logic.

No matter how the text is composed, Cangjie or pinyin, the moment it enters the wire it becomes indistinguishable. Why preserve the structural integrity?

The surface is uniform, but the route it takes to reach that surface is anything but.

Picture: Talking to --- - .... . .-. ... (Others) ©Hiuyan Lee