In ‘Searching for the meaning’,  I compare the computational keystroke-values to the mastery of understanding the others. This series of works is an attempt to examine the phrases “I’d like to see you” and “Happy New Year” into light installation pieces. By disparate cultural/historical backgrounds, a critical explanation or interpretation could not fully explain the meanings of the phrase during conversational interaction. 

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The frequency of each letters’ use decides each keystrokes location on the keyboard and it, in itself, becomes a keyboard layout. This reflects the tendency of each distinct language; meaning one language might draw similar graph images to another, but they are not entirely the same. Yet we can trace the similarity in human behavioral patterns of language use.

 

The creation of this piece utilizes my coding of algorithm to visualize the letter patterns of nine different languages expressing the phrase. A typed word, using nine differing language keyboard layout, is assigned ASCII code decimal values through my coding algorithm. The extracted value-data is used to project a graph and then the graph is reshaped on the canvas as an abstract drawing, as seen below.

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