Chinese Whisper

Saurabh Datta

Other - Arduino, fixed voltage power supplies, metal geared servo motors, relays, record and replay modules, amplifiers, speakers, electret mics, custom stainless steel frame, custom designed and milled cast iron rotation bases, collapsible mounts, custom 3D printed parts, readymade makeup doll heads.

Today our lives: online, physical and in other dimensions, depends so much on reinterpretation and transfer of data through multitude of channels. Observing people in real life talking and meaning separate things, one may wonder, what if this wasn't intentional or a human nature of nurture; but rather a natural result of natural fatigue and decay. A rigor that even human-non-alike machines also seem to perform. Nothing runs for ever. Everything is transformed and reformed while in transit or in a state of transfer. Equilibrium only exists as an ideal. This reminded me of Chinese whispers. It refers to a sequence of repetitions of a story, each one differing slightly from the original, So that the final telling bears only a scant resemblance to the original. Inaccurately transmitted gossip. By embracing electronic noise or as it naturally occurs in an un-engineered process, it corrupts the initial message being spoken over multitudes of iteration of message repetitions. A real life event in a “not so perfect” robotic interpretation. You may have your own interpretation.