Cracked Words
KIKO(QI) CHEN
Internet Censorship has changed the way we write, read, access, and produce information. This website is a free tool that assists you to bypass the “watching eyes” and express freely on the Internet - that’s how the Internet should be.
This piece was inspired by a mass internet anti-censorship movement across Chinese social media. A series of algorithms were created to disrupt the words in a way that is still readable to humans, but can bypass the “optical character recognition” AI censors.
In the beginning of COVID, an interview article about a Wuhan whistleblower doctor being disciplined on charges of “spreading rumors” went viral on Chinese social media, shortly before wiped out by internet censors. In response to it, Chinese netizens resorted to hundreds of interesting ways to save this article from vanishing, by rewriting it in calligraphy, flipping it upside down, filling it with emojis, translating it into fictional languages, and then sharing it in a relay.
“Words can be wiped out, but thoughts and memories will remain.”
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This piece was inspired by a mass internet anti-censorship movement across Chinese social media. A series of algorithms were created to disrupt the words in a way that is still readable to humans, but can bypass the “optical character recognition” AI censors.
In the beginning of COVID, an interview article about a Wuhan whistleblower doctor being disciplined on charges of “spreading rumors” went viral on Chinese social media, shortly before wiped out by internet censors. In response to it, Chinese netizens resorted to hundreds of interesting ways to save this article from vanishing, by rewriting it in calligraphy, flipping it upside down, filling it with emojis, translating it into fictional languages, and then sharing it in a relay.
“Words can be wiped out, but thoughts and memories will remain.”
Please join to be a part of this exhibition and leave your message on the screen!