REVERBERATIONS
Pulses such as the Morse code or musical scores have become universal forms of language, in the same way, certain body gestures possess this quality. Today, digital writing is creating codes in body expression that we have begun to internalize as sensory exercises. While writing is the reverberation of the word, oral decoding is the echo, therefore, the body gesture is the time in which both occur.
The development of the ability to write with a single finger on tiny keyboards; a sustained drag on a touch screen generates a code line that predicts and determines the written word. It is a new system of abstract and synthetic gestures that can be represented with continuous strokes (with their respective variations in each language).
In the CAPTHCHA test (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) as its name indicates, it was designed to distinguish computers from humans; currently AI is increasingly closing that gap of what Descartes called the insufficiency of an appropriate linguistic response to separate the human from the automaton. Said in this way, in written language, while an automaton reproduces movements (programmed), a human produces gestures (spontaneous); and both processes are abstractions of language to make the message more efficient. The bodily gesture of written communication has been simplified to a finger, as in a sign language, which curiously predates writing, and has been used as the most basic form of communication to this day, from war codes to poetry for the deaf.
Creativity, and therefore art, makes possible these very different dimensions of bodily movement in pursuit of an improvement in communication from common living to the need for creative gesture as a form of survival.
