Milliseconds between sent and seen in a horrible day
Technical communication infrastructure is hidden under the surface by our digitally naive society today and is no longer questioned. It disappears into the infrastructural complexity behind a single ‘click’. This leads to seemingly endless possibilities for two people to communicate via digital channels, until, suddenly, that connection no longer exists.
A war or crisis is not a binary state in which digital communication becomes impossible, but rather one in which the available paths for communication become restricted and must be consciously and situationally chosen.
Jung Hsu has examined this complex subject and, in collaboration with Robert Schnüll, sought to demystify it. In their work, the two present their current state of inquiry and ask: How can two people, even in times of war, nature disaster, or different scale of disruption, communicate to one another that they are (relatively) okay?
The result is an interactive web application that allows visitors to explore their current state of research, through guided interaction, the various possible paths of communication.
