你 我 它——信息实验设计

装置艺术设计 / 文字实验 / 平面设计

2023

本作品是以汉字基因为基础的星际文明交流符号代词实验。

在星际文明接触的第一刻时，“你、我、它”的代词使用，可能是“交流破冰”的第一步。此时的人类作为一个文明共同体，自然会试图开发一种沟通彼此的语言形式。

这会是一种什么样的语言形式？亦或是符号系统？

由于人类依靠视觉获得绝大多数信息的先天原因，视觉类信息符号很可能成为地球人类承载信息的本能首选。而相较于大多数的拼音文字，汉字作为地球人类至今广泛使用的单一语素的唯一象形文字，其基因具备形成交流符号的基础素质。

本作品基于以上意图，进行了关于“你、我、它”三个基础代词的实验性设计，并在象形组合、笔顺维度、三维指向、代码参数等方面进行信息扩容试验。

This work is an experiment on the use of symbolic pronouns in interstellar civilization communication based on the genetics of Chinese characters.

At the first moment of contact between interstellar civilizations, the use of the pronouns “you, me, it” may be the first step in “breaking the ice of communication”. At this point, humans as a civilized community would naturally try to develop a form of language to communicate with each other.

What kind of language would this be? Or a system of symbols?

Due to the fact that human beings rely on vision to obtain most of the information, visual information symbols are likely to be the first choice of human beings on earth to carry information instinctively. Compared to most pinyin characters, Chinese characters, as the only hieroglyphic characters with a single language element widely used by human beings on Earth, are genetically endowed with the basic qualities to form communication symbols.

Based on the above intention, this work is an experimental design of the three basic pronouns “you, me and it”, and conducts experiments on the expansion of information in terms of hieroglyphic combinations, stroke order dimensions, three-dimensional pointing, code parameters, and so on.