3DIT/1DAH
Old school wireless for fiber optic cables

Considered as the precursor of digital communications, morse code has been abandoned since February 1999 for all maritime communications, to the benefit of satellite transmission.

On one hand, it seems there is a huge technological progress in the way we exchange information, but on the other hand, we use keyboards since more than 300 years (with the piano as the first input device) to handle it. Even if we are using fiber optic, wawes and bytes to transmit our culture today, we rarely payed attention to the beauty of its form, like we did it for writing and typeface in the area of the book.

This setup might be seen as a caricatural approach of our curent situation, regarding product development for new media communication devices: As most of us are afraid of the unexplored and often misunderstood area of the bits and bytes, we put them into boxes in order to be safe from them, looking over their real essence, omitting a major source for creative potential and real progress.

This project was realized at the University of the Arts Berlin, 2009