Silent Communications

At the exhibition from October 20, 2017 to August 5, 2018

»Silent Communications« remains silent due to the fact that communication between the work and its visitors takes place via light. Short and long light signals follow the Morse alphabet. The development of telegraphy and Morse code dates back to the 1830s, when Samuel F. B. Morse took part in developing an electric telegraph system. By and large his code system has been out of general use for several decades and unless you are a Morse enthusiast, you will not be able to decipher the blinking lights. A smartphone application is related to the installation, which is far more suited to today's zeitgeist than Morse code. Using the app the phone can directly translate the flickering lights into text, and so the visitor can decode the messages transmitted by each LED light. The messages are all about code and its genealogy from Morse to binary and digital.