'Breakfast At Afiq's' is about trying to capture the essence of a Malaysian family’s communication style online. To create the work, a specially designed computer program was trained on 4 years of speech and text data shared between the Hatta family. It then generated a novel script using patterns learned from the original data, creating a new probabilistic, abstracted version of the family’s interaction. 

 

Visualised through a family’s breakfast meal, a mundane yet intimate moment of daily life, the work explores how styles of communication shifts from face-to face to the internet, due to long distance relationships. Contrasting the physical and digital, we can visualise how these interactions play out simultaneously. Through this exercise, the artists aim to codify the subtle, colloquial, quirky language of a suburban South-East Asian breakfast session.

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Version 2 - junky version putting the fam in game aesthetics and exploring clunky ai imagery: