2008-ICM Final-”Linguistic Generator”

“letter comes to live when human being call it”

The project ‘Linguistic Generator’ is based on the reason of letters existing. It is about the relationship between letters and human being. By using two hands, you can make meaningless characters readable.

There are more than 2,500 languages and letters in the world. All letters have a strong influence on creating different cultures and nationality of the world. Since their roots are not started from themselves but from people, these words would not be meaningful if human being don’t exist. Only when people write, read, listen, and record the letters, it can have the reason of existence. It means that there is no life force in the letter combination before he or she needs it.

Project “Linguistic Generator” works based on motion detection of video camera. A video camera will detect your two hand’s position and calculate the distance between two hands on the screen. The message which called from the Internet will generate animations only between your two hands.
During you make it readable, you can see a beautiful disjointing and combining of letter combination.

At first, there are bunch of characters on the screen.

When a person puts his or her hands wide apart, The video begins to capture the hands and characters will gather together within fixed area between two hands.