Predictive Text Poetry Collection
2019
Every Taiwanese student reads the same Chinese literature in junior and senior high school. For this work, I typed only some of the phonetic symbols (Zhuyin) of each line, and my phone’s predictive text filled in the most commonly used characters. Based on big data of everyday typing, it arranged what it believed made sense. The pages look like poems and stories, but have no logic. Predictive text makes us forget the original exists. From reliance, we slide into confusion, passing on messages that no longer mean what they were meant to.
Taoyuan International Art Award, 2019 — Selected from 543 submissions across 11 countries.
