{"id":311,"date":"2020-11-19T12:18:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/?page_id=311"},"modified":"2020-11-19T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T10:45:43","slug":"kiko-chen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/kiko-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiko Chen &#8211; Cracked Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">In the beginning of COVID, an interview article about a Wuhan whistleblower doctor being disciplined on charges of &#8220;spreading rumors&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">This piece was inspired by this 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, but can bypass the \u201coptical character recognition\u201d AI censors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cWords can be wiped out, but thoughts and memories will remain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pt.1-2.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-350\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pt.2.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-351\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pt.3.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-352\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tools used:&nbsp; <\/strong>coded with p5.js<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Text source:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u4eba\u7269 magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Typeface:&nbsp;<\/strong>Source Han Serif<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Ins: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fakeplastickiko\/\">@fakeplastickiko<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning of COVID, an interview article about a Wuhan whistleblower doctor being disciplined on charges of &#8220;spreading rumors&#8221; went viral on Chinese social media, shortly before wiped out<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/kiko-chen\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kiko Chen &#8211; Cracked Words<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}