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哑

随着科技逐渐侵蚀着我们的生活和思维，我们的语言以及我们与彼此之间互动的方式也不可避免地发生了变化。

简单来说，“哑”从形容一种无法说话的能力的单词，变成了一种自我选择的去使一件事情或者一个人沉寂的单词。电视上，手机上或者社交媒体上都有一个静音键。曾经我们从外界上与这个世界脱离，现在通过静音键，我们有了自我选择使自己脱离这个世界的能力。

在一个可以通过静音键而脱离一个谈话或者一个经历的世界，我感兴趣是这样的现况会对物理上的互动和交流产生怎样的影响。

如果你的互动越来越多地通过触摸屏来实现的话，会导致你最终失去真真的触摸的能力吗？会导致你失去在一种无法按下“静音”键的世界里与万物交流与人类沟通的能力吗？或者这种能力的失去的现象其实已经发生了？

但是能够说出来的语言知识交流的一部分。正如我在重庆所经历的一样，你可以从肢体语言、手势和触摸里面得到很多信息。从对双手的关注中，我希望能够理解一些微妙的、具有特征性的动作--也许是在交流中最具有人性的元素，它们是你无法通过人工智能或者机器人模仿的。

这个展览通过这些角度来接触无声的交流和手势。

观察到的手的活动被捕捉到--然后无字幕地重复播放，就好像是一个用数码记录下来的曾经的沟通一样。记录一件事是为了尊重，同时记录也暗示了一种即将出现的失去-- 一种随着科技的发展可能出现的失去，而且由于科技和沟通是如此的相互连接着，这还是一个令人很头疼的问题。

多利·阿尔诺特写于二零一六年一月十一日十一时零三分

Mute

As our lives become more mediated by technology， the way we engage with language (and each other) inevitably evolves。

In a general sense， the term ‘mute’ has shifted from defining an inability to speak， to a selective personal choice to silence something/someone。 The mute button， on a TV， a phone， a social media conversation。 Where we were once externally disconnected from the world， we are now choosing to disconnect。

In a society where a mute button allows the user to disconnect from a conversation or an experience， I‘m interested in how this contemporary understanding of the word will feed back into physical interaction and communication。

If our interactions are increasingly mediated by touch screens， will that eventually lead to an inability to actually touch， a mute-ness of physical connection or human interaction？ Or has this already happened？

Of course spoken language is only part of communication。 As I’ve experienced in Chongqing， you can learn a lot from body language， gesture and touch。 Focussing on the hands， I‘ve tried to understand subtleties and idiosyncratic movements - perhaps the most human elements of communication， something you can’t really simulate through A。I。 or robotics。

This exhibition approaches silent communication and gesture from these different perspectives。

Observed hand movements are captured - presented as looped clips without context， in a sense becoming a digital archive of previous interactions。 To archive something is to show reverence， while also implying an obsolescence - a common perspective when it comes to technological development， but more problematic when technology and communication are so interconnected。

On 11 January 2016 at 11：03， Tully Arnot wrote