Machine Whispers

video installation

2011

傳話遊戲是一個古老的多人遊戲，為從隊伍首端通過耳語傳達一句話至隊尾，通常遊戲結束時最初的那句話已經面目全非。這項無聊的實驗將由機器取代人類來完成，結果會是如何？

There is a game called Chinese whispers that we, human beings, play; the first player whispers a phrase or sentence to the next player. Each player successively whispers what that player believes he or she heard to the next. The last player announces the statement to the entire group. Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the final statement differs significantly from the first. I-Yeh, Wu was curious to see if that would happen with machines. Will it always accurately repeat the same signal?