Alien Language Interface
A.L.I is a research, documentation and creation workshop devoted to interstellar contact languages, proposed by David Guez, artist and author. It explores how a non-human intelligence might recognize a signal, understand a structure, interpret a pattern, receive an archive or answer a message.
The laboratory connects SETI, METI, exobiology, radio astronomy, information theory, cinema, literature, sound art and installations. Its purpose is to invent conceptual and artistic forms for making readable what might circulate between two worlds.
LABO
The three most recent research entries from the laboratory.
19.08.2026
What if first contact never appeared as a presence, but as an organised withdrawal? From information physics and ambiguous loss to artistic erasure and ghosts, this article proposes an experimental grammar of absence.
18.08.2026
What if an advanced civilization did not reveal itself through a message, but through its energy management? From WISE archives to Project Hephaistos candidates, Dyson spheres shift A.L.I toward a radical question: reading intelligence in an infrared anomaly.
17.08.2026
From dispersed family sign systems, deaf children brought together in Managua created a shared language that subsequent cohorts transformed. This documented case invites A.L.I to approach contact not as instant translation, but as the collective and gradual construction of grammar.
Projects / Works
A.L.I also produces objects, installations, dedicated interfaces and sound works developed from LABO research.
Sound installation - Courtenay, July 2026
An old radio continuously broadcasts an emergency fiction inspired by The War of the Worlds, produced during La Chambre d’Écho residency at Chalet Twin Peaks.
Experimental web application - A.L.I, 2026
Select or import two books, test whether the first book’s letters cross the second in the correct order, then observe that invisible reading as density, trajectory and key.
Art / science book - 543 pages
The laboratory becomes a physical book: an atlas of research, hypotheses, references and protocols devoted to interstellar languages. Deluxe edition available to order for €35 excluding shipping — Uncoated, Hardcover Case Wrap, Matte Cover.
LABO
The LABO notebook gathers ongoing paths: objects, signals, languages, archives, fictions, protocols and possible experiments around first contact.
19.08.2026
What if first contact never appeared as a presence, but as an organised withdrawal? From information physics and ambiguous loss to artistic erasure and ghosts, this article proposes an experimental grammar of absence.
18.08.2026
What if an advanced civilization did not reveal itself through a message, but through its energy management? From WISE archives to Project Hephaistos candidates, Dyson spheres shift A.L.I toward a radical question: reading intelligence in an infrared anomaly.
17.08.2026
From dispersed family sign systems, deaf children brought together in Managua created a shared language that subsequent cohorts transformed. This documented case invites A.L.I to approach contact not as instant translation, but as the collective and gradual construction of grammar.
16.08.2026
The Fermi paradox does not prove that we are alone. It measures the gap between vast possibilities and limited observations: the Great Filter, technosignatures, the dark forest and contact protocols for A.L.I.
15.08.2026
From the Rosetta Stone and Linear B to David Guez’s Binary Steles: how can we transmit not only a message, but its key, its evidence, and the conditions of its reading?
14.08.2026
Since Méliès, cinema has not merely shown the extraterrestrial: it has trained audiences to recognise a signal, imagine a nonhuman body, fear invasion, or desire contact. A critical history spanning popular cinema, avant-gardes, counterculture, underground film, and video art.
13.08.2026
Fanzines, samizdat, pirate radio, comics, UFO mythologies, and forums: ideas that institutions cannot yet receive change costume. A.L.I examines these oblique routes and proposes cultural steganography as a contact hypothesis.
12.08.2026
What if first contact began before decoding, with an obligation not to reduce the other to our own categories? From Levinas to Buber, Derrida, and Ricoeur, this article develops a pre-semiotic ethics for encounters with animal, artificial, or extraterrestrial intelligence.
11.08.2026
Turing asked whether a machine could sustain a convincingly human exchange. At cosmic scale, the problem changes: how can we recognise an intelligent response without requiring it to imitate our species, logic, or temporality?
10.08.2026
Memory does not replay the past like a camera: it reconstructs it. What if non-human contact used this vulnerability, not to send us an external message, but to place the trace of an encounter inside our own past?
09.08.2026
In 1960, Hans Freudenthal designed Lincos, a language intended to teach its own key to an extraterrestrial intelligence. From radio pulses to numbers, time, dialogue, and value, this historical precedent exposes both the power and the assumptions of any interstellar language.
08.08.2026
How can we transmit “danger, do not dig here” to a society whose language, symbols, and institutions are unknown? From WIPP reports and Andra’s memory programme to speculative ray cats and the 10,000-year clock, nuclear semiotics turns a repository into a radical laboratory of contact.
07.08.2026
Klingon, Na’vi, and Dothraki are genuinely structured languages created to make fictional peoples credible. Their construction exposes a decisive tension for A.L.I: how can a language produce enough otherness to shift thought while still allowing its recipient to learn, answer, and repair misunderstanding?
06.08.2026
An octopus thinks through a central brain, eight partly autonomous arms, and skin that can detect light. This radically different Earthly architecture asks A.L.I to design messages for distributed rather than singular minds.
05.08.2026
An A.L.I article on quantum programming, qubits, circuits, BB84, quantum teleportation and satellite quantum communication, with an extrapolation toward non-binary contact protocols.
04.08.2026
Some intelligences do not merely solve a problem: they redraw the map of what can be thought. From Leonardo da Vinci to Bach, from Einstein to Turing, this article explores the idea that major ruptures often emerge from connections between separated domains. For A.L.I, this becomes a method: to seek interstellar contact where science, art, language, body, instrument and imagination recombine.
03.08.2026
What if the first language shared with an extraterrestrial intelligence were neither an alphabet nor a signal to translate, but a capacity to make worlds appear in the mind? From ancient philosophy to neuroscience and generative AI, this hypothesis explores imagination as a contact interface while designing the controls needed to distinguish convergence, suggestion and evidence.
02.08.2026
From ALMA's antennas to future space coronagraphs, this article maps the instruments that observe matter between the stars, detect exoplanets and analyse their atmospheres. It examines their limits, missions in preparation, the growing role of AI and the distributed interstellar observatory of tomorrow.
01.08.2026
What if air and the space surrounding the body became a three-dimensional page? From Laban to Forsythe, this hypothesis imagines a gestural alphabet, collective sentences and a writing GPS.
31.07.2026
What if the future were not absent but distributed through the present as constraints, correlations and possibilities that remain unreadable? This hypothesis connects the philosophy of time, chaos, perception, information theory and the search for interstellar signals.
30.07.2026
For thousands of years, we have spoken to a presence we cannot see. But who are we speaking to: a person, a cause, a law, nature itself, or our own need for meaning? From creation myths to cosmology, this article explores that uncertain dialogue and asks whether we could ever recognise an answer.
29.07.2026
Exodarwinism asks a simple and vertiginous question: would natural selection be a law of life throughout the Universe, even where DNA, carbon, species and individuals resemble nothing on Earth? Bringing together evolutionary biology, astrobiology, speculative worlds and A.L.I protocols, this article looks for what might be universal in evolution without mistaking Earth for life as a whole.
28.07.2026
A.L.I Opus 1 turns the laboratory into a 543-page physical book: an art-and-science atlas devoted to interstellar languages, signals, non-human intelligence and imaginaries of contact.
27.07.2026
Can one book contain another if its letters are selected in the right order? Using a real test between the Bible and Shakespeare, the Ghostbook explores the mathematical, poetic and computational limits of the hidden book.
26.07.2026
If a film shows a screen playing a second film, can the outer film be slowed while the inner one remains at normal speed? Yes, provided the inner image is accelerated during shooting. This experiment opens the idea of a temporal window: one shot could contain two durations, two rhythms and perhaps two worlds.
25.07.2026
From cosmic comics to Marc-Antoine Mathieu, graphic narrative does more than depict aliens: it invents alphabets, rhythms, translation spaces and reading machines that transform our idea of contact.
23.07.2026
An A.L.I article on metacognition: knowing that one knows, doubting one’s own perceptions, self-evaluating, and imagining contact with an intelligence able to communicate through models of its own thoughts.
21.07.2026
Brain plasticity, AI, consciousness and interligence: how might we learn to perceive cognitively closed worlds and build a networked intelligence capable of encountering the other?
20.07.2026
An A.L.I hypothesis on how languages treat time, future, aspect, memory and expectation differently, imagining chronemes as deep temporal units for communicating with the other.
18.07.2026
An A.L.I hypothesis on the real power of language: from a word with no effect in front of a chair to a declaration of war, from performativity to code, toward the idea of a language able to produce physical transformations.
17.07.2026
A historical and contemporary study of solipsism, from Descartes to simulation hypotheses, asking how A.L.I might distinguish a genuine other from a projection of ourselves.
16.07.2026
What if an intelligence did not speak through voice, wave or symbol, but through crystal defects, isotopic signatures, sounding stones or travelling stellar objects?
15.07.2026
A deep reading of Alice in Wonderland: logic, nonsense, metamorphosis, pop culture, metaphysics and A.L.I paths around worlds whose rules keep changing.
14.07.2026
A.L.I radio project and sound installation conceived for the La Chambre d’Écho residency: an old radio loops a fake emergency broadcast from Courtenay.
13.07.2026
An A.L.I hypothesis on time as the condition of encounter: from cosmology to memory, from poetry to music, time becomes a multidimensional and multifrequency medium in which a message can survive, transform and wait for its receiver.
12.07.2026
From the Copernican decentering to Everett’s quantum worlds, from eternal inflation to the string landscape, the multiverse displaces the question of contact: what if the most radical otherness came not from another planet, but from another universe?
11.07.2026
An A.L.I study of the simulation hypothesis: physics, philosophy, cinema, literature, video games and possible protocols for communicating with the creators of a computed world.
10.07.2026
Using The X-Files as a cultural matrix, this article analyses extraterrestrial communication in the series, the real archives that fed it, and what this aesthetics of secrecy can bring to A.L.I.
08.07.2026
From roots to fungi, from swarms to dark-matter filaments, this article explores the hypothesis of a distributed collective language in which the 'we' precedes the individual.
06.07.2026
What if an advanced civilization chose to speak not with light, but with particles able to cross planets? Neutrinos open a fascinating scenario for A.L.I: an almost invisible language, extremely costly, but conceptually immense.
05.07.2026
From Lovelock and Margulis to contemporary comparisons between neuronal networks and the cosmic web, this article studies the hypothesis of global organisms: living Earth, stellar bodies, network-universe and the brain as a possible structural miniature of the cosmos.
04.07.2026
From Solaris to Stalker, from Annihilation to Sun Ra, pop culture imagines forms of contact where the extraterrestrial does not send a message: it becomes environment, memory, music, climate, or zone of transformation.
04.07.2026
A precise exploration of fractals: history, geometry, natural examples, the golden ratio, morphogenesis, plants and the hypothesis of an interstellar language based on dynamic forms repeated across scales.
03.07.2026
An A.L.I study of earthly artifacts, scripts, machines and monuments that raise the question of messages without readers: a critical xenoarchaeology of the unknown.
03.07.2026
An academic reading of Deleuze and Guattari for A.L.I: rhizome, becoming, extreme otherness, collective intelligence and AI as a non-centralized translation milieu.
03.07.2026
Starting from recent news about zebra finches, this article traces the history of animal language research, from bees to whales, then shows how AI is transforming interspecies decoding and feeding A.L.I.
02.07.2026
An A.L.I article on Umwelt: the perceptual world proper to each being, from Jakob von Uexküll to non-human senses, and the hypothesis that contact language begins by translating perceptual milieus.
02.07.2026
What if poetry were an ultimate form of communication with non-human intelligence: not because it explains better, but because it carries rhythm, silence, image, ambiguity and the unconscious.
01.07.2026
An A.L.I article on the Boltzmann brain, entropy, spontaneous observers, the cosmological measure problem, and season 1 episode 8 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
01.07.2026
An A.L.I article on the perceptron, the evolution of neural networks, deep learning, neuronal cultures, brain organoids and the hypothesis of cultivated intelligence as a new medium of contact.
30.06.2026
A research article on how psychology, from Jung to contemporary neuroscience, approaches the alien, collective consciousness, parapsychology and the hypothesis of invisible information channels.
29.06.2026
Starting from Inception, fractals and lucid-dream research, this article imagines dreaming as a communication interface: an unstable space where motifs, images and messages can repeat across scales.
28.06.2026
Men in Black offers a useful fiction for A.L.I: discreet coexistence between alien species, imagined government agreements, Area 51 and Orion’s galaxy as a model of nested scales.
28.06.2026
A survey of literature, anthropology, hypnosis, lucid dreaming, meditation, out-of-body experiences, remote viewing and extrasensory narratives, asking what these states could contribute to A.L.I.
27.06.2026
Starting from John Archibald Wheeler's intuition, this article explores the idea that reality may arise from acts of information, then extends it toward qubits, entanglement and the possibility of an interstellar language based on quantum correlations.
27.06.2026
Cosmic microwave background, cosmic web, gravitational waves, micro/macro scales and the hypothesis of communication at very large scale.
26.06.2026
From ancient atomism to SETI/METI debates, a philosophical journey through plurality of worlds, language and the ethics of contact.
26.06.2026
What if DNA were biological archive, cosmic code and possible contact medium? Shared bases, panspermia, hidden signature and an A.L.I hypothesis.
26.06.2026
What if an evolved intelligence invented its own language? From AI neuralese to AI as mediator between two planetary civilizations.
25.06.2026
An exploration of exomathematics as a possible language between intelligences: Greg Egan, formal structures, light-speed delay and A.L.I prototypes.
25.06.2026
From semiology, from Saussure to Peirce, and from a scene in Disclosure Day where an extraterrestrial message seems to pass through a weather presenter’s body before being written as an equation, this post asks a central A.L.I question: how can we recognize language when it changes medium?
24.06.2026
Quantum entanglement suggests an instantaneous link between two particles separated by vast distances. But can that link become an intergalactic message? For A.L.I, the answer becomes a reflection on correlations, shared keys and common memory.
22.06.2026
From Flatland to the hypercube, from the 3D-to-2D passage to the 4D-to-3D hypothesis: understanding slices, projections and anomalies to imagine how A.L.I could decode or send a message between universes with different dimensions.
22.06.2026
Starting from Interstellar, imagining a message that does not only cross space but an additional dimension: temporal bookshelf, watch, gravity, code and possible A.L.I protocols.
22.06.2026
EME uses the Moon as a radio reflector: a message leaves Earth, bounces off the lunar surface and returns a few seconds later. For A.L.I, this device can become a clock, a loop and a possible message to the future.
21.06.2026
Exploring e^(ix)=cos(x)+i sin(x) and e^(iπ)+1=0 as a bridge between rotation, wave, phase, signal and possible mathematical language for A.L.I.
21.06.2026
Ancient Mars: past water, habitability, potential biosignatures, current research and the cultural history of Martians in literature and cinema.
21.06.2026
Current exoplanet research, possible forms of life, extrapolated numbers by galaxy and across the observable universe, and questions for A.L.I.
21.06.2026
Comparing animal communication and human language to imagine extraterrestrial language: bees, vervet monkeys, dolphins, birds, bonobos, parrots and anthropocentric limits.
21.06.2026
An analysis of La Soupe aux choux as a first-contact comedy: flatulence as signal, soup as exchange protocol, body as antenna and biological transmission.
20.06.2026
A historical and contemporary analysis of crop circles: hoaxes, geometry, famous examples, the Arecibo/Chilbolton motif and their potential as an extraterrestrial communication language.
20.06.2026
Exploring telepathy as a communication motif in ufology and abduction narratives: inner voice, mental images, commands, memory and implications for A.L.I.
20.06.2026
Exploring phonemes as building blocks for an intermediate language between human speech, guttural sound, breath, vibration and nonverbal signal.
20.06.2026
A.L.I post on mathematics as a possible foundation for interstellar contact: prime numbers, physical constants, encoding, SETI, AI, exoplanets and the limits of a universal language.
19.06.2026
An analysis of the alien message in Contact: prime numbers, returned TV signal, technical pages, 3D reading and the Machine plans as an interstellar language.
19.06.2026
The 1977 Wow! signal detected by Big Ear: 6EQUJ5, the hydrogen line, SETI hypotheses, scientific limits and A.L.I paths around signal as proto-language.
19.06.2026
A look at language in Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival: heptapod logograms, circular writing, nonlinear time, Sapir-Whorf and original A.L.I visual examples.
19.06.2026
A critical typology of extraterrestrial figures in UFO narratives: small humanoids, Greys, luminous entities, reptilians, insectoids, robots and non-humanoids, with archives and photos to consult.
19.06.2026
A critical summary of the Ummo affair: Ummite letters, documents, symbols, vocabulary, the soncepts hypothesis and its relevance for extraterrestrial-language research.
19.06.2026
Rethinking the Arecibo message today: binary grid, exoplanets, climate, AI, networks, creation protocol and critical links with crop circles.
19.06.2026
Remaking a disk or message-object for space today: sounds, images, languages, data, instructions, politics of representation and decoding protocol.
19.06.2026
A free replica of the contact instrument from Close Encounters of the Third Kind: reference photo, score, five tones, keyboard or synthesizer input, light panels.
19.06.2026
An A.L.I radio device with antenna and transcoder: diagrams, difficulty levels, equipment to buy and programming paths for transforming text into waves.
19.06.2026
Rereading the Drake equation in the age of exoplanets: atmospheres, habitable zones, stellar stability, ambiguous biosignatures and detectability.
18.06.2026
A luminous Morse finger to build from an LED ring, a thimble, a glove or a claw: from hacked toy to two Bluetooth fingers capable of talking to each other.
References
A living index of artworks, books, films, experiments and scientific sources that extend the questions raised by A.L.I.
Laban choreutics treats movement as a geometric relation between the body and space.
Foundational text of methodical doubt, the cogito, and the modern problem of certainty.
The foundational paper that replaces the question of thought with the imitation game.
The text that popularised transhumanism, to be read alongside its eugenic context.
The foundational design for a language intended to teach its own logic to an unknown cosmic recipient.
The foundational short paper proposing a search for artificial stellar sources through their infrared radiation.
Central novel on the impossibility of contact with an intelligence-planet.
The major work in which face, infinity, and responsibility place ethics before knowledge.
A foundational study of style as an oblique language of resistance and recuperation.
A foundational report on redundancy, generational relay, and preserving meaning across ten millennia.
An audiovisual grammar that makes the dancer’s virtual lines, rotations and inscriptions visible.
A series materialising the binary code of human works on stone, mosaic, paper, and other durable media.
An accessible overview of memory reconstruction and Elizabeth Loftus’s research.
A complete method for phonological, grammatical, and historical language construction by the creator of Dothraki.
A philosophical and scientific investigation of octopuses, evolution, and the independent emergence of consciousness.
Work awarded the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize on zebra finch calls and their categories of meaning.
Illustrated codex held at Yale whose text remains largely unsolved.
Major work of immaterialism: the world is thought from perception rather than independent matter.
A historical landmark for thinking continuity between animal expression, body, emotion, and sign.
A philosophy of dialogue opposing I-Thou encounter to the instrumental I-It relation.
A Martian signal and a Constructivist world project revolution, desire, and power into space.
The reader becomes copyist, carrier, and the text’s survival infrastructure.
A reaction-diffusion model explaining the emergence of biological patterns.
Movement relayed from rooftop to rooftop turns the city into a channel of gestural transmission.
Major film where extraterrestrial contact becomes memory, apparition, and inner landscape.
The grammar and lexicon that turned cinematic material into a learnable language.
The multidisciplinary study behind Landscape of Thorns, Menacing Earthworks, and layered communication.
The modern foundational study of the DRM paradigm and semantic false recall.
A modern continuation of logic-based languages designed for interstellar communication.
The complete binary code of a film printed in a book and reconstructible through open software.
A documentary about sustained attention, learning, and the relationship between a diver and a wild octopus.
An experimental interface decodes speech intentions and drives a digital voice and avatar.
A Gaia DR3, 2MASS and WISE analysis of millions of sources, retaining seven follow-up candidates without presenting them as evidence.
Preprint on graphic and material signs of scribal intent in Voynich; it does not offer an accepted decipherment.
The private language problem clarifies the need for shareable rules if a sign is to become language.
Contact becomes silent replacement, a crisis of trust, and a reversible political metaphor.
Pirate radio as a physical and political displacement of the right to broadcast.
Major reference on the bee dance as collective spatial code.
A practice in which gravity, support, inertia and attention produce a physical conversation between bodies.
The Zone functions as a place-message: it transforms desire, paths, and proof.
The Chinese Room thought experiment distinguishes syntactic manipulation from understanding.
Freudenthal revisits the cosmic-language project in the historic SETI magazine <em>Cosmic Search</em>.
Implanted memories become part of the replicants’ identity infrastructure.
A semiotic hypothesis in which sensitive animals, stories, and songs transmit a radiation warning.
A philosophical fable that uses a deep-sea cephalopod to build an inverted, radically other anthropology.
Derrida questions the animal gaze and the general category through which humans reduce living plurality.
The film for which Paul Frommer designed Na’vi under performance, sound, and timing constraints.
The all-sky infrared survey that provides a major basis for searches for waste heat and infrared excess.
A manifesto on digital memory, natural media, and the material conditions of preservation.
International recommendations on safety, ethics and equity in genome editing.
Minoan administrative tablet: the script is known, but the language behind Linear A is not.
The monolith and HAL shift contact toward evolution, AI, and the incommensurable.
The novel behind Stalker, where extraterrestrial traces are incomprehensible leftovers rather than human-readable messages.
Alien origin as musical, political, and Afrofuturist fiction.
The brain in a vat renews solipsistic doubt in a technological and semantic framework.
Foundational study on the cognitive and symbolic capacities of Alex the parrot.
A microscopic archive of thousands of pages documenting human languages, designed for long-term legibility.
An experimental micro-engraved medium intended to preserve dense information on a durable material.
The first humanoid robot sent into space, designed to work alongside humans.
The series that turned George R. R. Martin’s Dothraki fragments into a dialogue language.
A collective volume on the cultural, anthropological, and interpretive challenges of interstellar contact.
A popular biographical fiction about Turing, Bletchley Park, and Enigma, to be read alongside historical scholarship.
Ana Stelline creates memories whose emotional truth exceeds their factual origin.
A classic case of a brightness anomaly where the megastructure hypothesis was weakened by multi-wavelength data.
One of the most studied rongorongo tablets; some sequences are discussed as a lunar calendar.
Three-dimensional software separates choreographic composition from habitual bodily movement.
A fiction about manufactured memories, the desire for adventure, and the impossibility of certifying reality.
A monumental mechanical clock designed to embody and endure ten thousand years.
A contemporary hypothesis that reformulates doubt about the external world as a cosmological and computational possibility.
A collaborative fictional bureaucracy of the anomalous built by an online community.
Archives engraved on ceramic and stored in a salt mine to transmit documents into the distant future.
The Turing test becomes an experiment in power, desire, embodiment, and manipulation.
The Shimmer imagines otherness communicating through refraction, mutation, and biological rewriting.
Project using machine learning to analyze sperm whale codas and explore their communication.
Arnauld Pierre traces artistic myths of humanity hybridised with its machines.
A key instrument for separating dust, background galaxies and compact sources when infrared candidates need follow-up.
An extraterrestrial ocean answers through human memories, making encounter and projection impossible to separate.
Afrofuturist reference where music, cosmos, performance, and extraterrestrial origin merge.
Afrofuturism turns cosmic exodus into a strategy of liberation and self-determination.
Erasing a romantic memory transforms the very conditions of identity.
Organization developing open AI tools to study and decode animal communication.
A speculative anthropological formulation of the future-human visitor hypothesis.
An archival object and transmission protocol tied to the passage of an interstellar body.
A controlled study of conversational indistinguishability in selected large language models.
Electronic landscapes where sound becomes threshold, presence, and voiceless thought.
First contact becomes forced reproduction, contamination, and conflict between organism and corporation.
Paper proposing a fine analysis of sperm whale codas: rhythm, tempo, rubato, and ornamentation.
Ethological framework for analyzing behavior through function, mechanism, development, and evolutionary history.
A satire in which invasion hides within advertising, money, and the commands of mass culture.
Historical reference in ethology, useful for placing animal signals within observed behavior.
Global television as synthetic flow, cultural collision, and plastic signal material.
The central book on the making of the Voyager Golden Record: sounds, images, music and playback principles.
A worldwide simulation of receiving an extraterrestrial message, inviting the public to test acts of decoding.
Apple TV series by Vince Gilligan about collectivity, shared consciousness and the ambiguity of common happiness.
One hundred micro-engraved images attached to EchoStar XVI as a durable orbital archive.
A mock tutorial on digital resolution, invisibility, surveillance, and image violence.
A participatory interstellar message sent toward Polaris, centered on humanity’s environmental relation to Earth.
An Ars Electronica / SETI residency imagining AI-generated hybrid organisms between microorganisms, algorithms and possible life.
A radio project turning brain waves into a signal sent into space, between neuroscience, radio astronomy and speculative telepathy.
A musical transmission toward exoplanet GJ273b: a coded, sonic and cultural message addressed to possible intelligence.
An installation and scientific fiction about moon geese, analogue habitats and lunar travel imaginaries.
Bio-art and speculative astrobiology: fruit flies imagined for Titan, Saturn’s moon.
A lunar text project: writing a word at cosmic scale and turning the Moon into a language surface.
A foundational work in which chronophotography decomposes human, animal and physical motion.
A foundational exploration of a total library produced by alphabetic combinatorics.
A key SETI novel about receiving a structured signal and the tensions between science, politics and belief.
A linguist learns a nonlinear writing system that changes her experience of time.
A transmission artwork using HAARP to send images, voice and sound into the ionosphere.
A series imagining extraterrestrial contact through a fungal logic: spore, contamination, network and medium.
A cosmological dialogue in which a demiurge orders the world according to intelligible forms.
God or Nature: an infinite, immanent reality rather than an external creator.
A library containing every possible combination turns total knowledge into a labyrinth.
A twenty-four-hour montage synchronised with real time, turning film history into a clock.
Heptapod language reshapes lived causality and the boundary between memory and anticipation.
A satellite sculpture, orbital mirror and question about who may write signs in the sky.
Urizen measures the world with compasses, both creator image and critique of reason limiting infinity.
A labyrinthine story in which every choice produces diverging times that may still intersect.
Ten sonnets cut into strips generate 10 to the 14th potential poems.
An extreme slowing of Psycho in which narrative becomes duration, waiting and material memory.
An immersive installation where vibrations, webs and bodies propose a haptic interspecies language.
A vast abstract cycle conceived as a spiritual interface and map of invisible realities.
Paintings, performances and visionary cosmology tied to claimed communication with a UFO entity.
Prediction turns a possible future into present political action and raises the problem of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Each depth of dreaming possesses its own temporal dilation factor.
The photo-film about memory and time becomes a printed binary sequence in the Paper Hard Drive.
Texts for intuitive music in which performers understand themselves as receivers rather than mere executants.
Circular writing reshapes the experience of time and the structure of the message itself.
A group exhibition of SETI Artists in Residence, including Rachel Sussman’s Cosmic Microwave Sand Mandala.
An installation that turns immense scientific datasets into a visual and sonic perceptual field.
The real outer world used in the temporal-screen test film.
A complete novel written without the letter e, in which a missing sign organises the narrative world.
The mission turns minute temperature differences into a map of conditions in the early Universe.
An artist residency program at the intersection of space research, imagination and public engagement.
The inner film accelerated during capture and restored to normal pace by slowing the whole shot.
A tiny artwork allegedly sent to the Moon: archive, secrecy and cultural trace.
An application that verifies, measures and visualises the ordered presence of one book inside another.
A cubic installation where rotations, permutations and luminous paths reveal several ghost books inside one letter matrix.
An essential text about first-contact linguistics, non-human writing and the effects of language on thought.
Suzanne Simard synthesizes her research on forests, mother trees and mycorrhizal networks.
An essay on the hypothesis that complex life may be rare, useful for balancing astrobiological optimism.
Merlin Sheldrake explores fungi as forms of relation, metabolism, network and non-human perception.
A major Martian reference: invasion, technological otherness, human fragility and the modern imaginary of civilizations from Mars.
A broad introduction to the astronomical, chemical and biological conditions of the search for life.
Richard Powers’ novel in which trees become characters, archives and actors of the living collective.
An essential literary cycle on Mars as cultural mirror: colonization, nostalgia, human projection and traces of another civilization.
A reflection on SETI, cosmic silence, search strategies and the consequences of detection.
A decisive text for thinking a cosmos not centered on humans and the possibility of inhabitants of other worlds that cannot be judged from our own categories.
A major text in the plurality-of-worlds tradition: the universe no longer has a single center and may contain innumerable worlds.
A classic that makes the plurality of inhabited worlds accessible through conversation, between astronomy, imagination and philosophy.
Kant places the possibility of inhabitants of other planets within a general cosmology, speculative but fertile for thinking intelligence elsewhere.
An important critique of inhabited worlds: useful for thinking about evidence and the risk of human projection.
A major popular astronomy work that spread the idea of lives adapted to other worlds.
A long historical study of the debate over inhabited worlds, from antiquity to the modern age.
A reference work on how science, theology and philosophy debated extraterrestrial life.
Poetic atomism: if the same elements combine elsewhere, Earth may not be the only stage for life.
Foundational text in which Wheeler develops the It from Bit intuition: physical facts as informational answers.
A hard-SF short-story collection that frames Egan's speculative logic: cognition, mathematics, identity and formal systems.
Research program on the links between quantum information, entanglement, gravity and the emergence of spacetime.
A major essay popularizing the idea of the universe as physical computation and information processing.
Carlo Rovelli’s essay undoing the idea of a single universal time by linking relativity, entropy, memory and lived experience.
A foundational text for thinking across dimensions: a sphere crossing a 2D world helps imagine a 4D message received in 3D.
Film adaptation of Solaris: extraterrestrial intelligence acts as a mirror of human memory and desire.
Season 1 episode 8: the Enterprise crosses a nebula whose cosmic entity is associated with a Boltzmann brain.
Cosmology paper using Boltzmann brains as a critical test for models of the universe.
Foundational perceptron paper as a probabilistic brain-inspired model.
A short story of exomathematics where distant civilizations encounter radically different mathematical structures.
Critical book on the limits of simple perceptrons.
A major novella about artificial intelligences that grow, learn, form attachments and develop forms of language and relation.
Experiment coupling cultured neurons to a minimal game-like environment.
An essential reference on radically other intelligence: not a language to translate, but an alterity that exceeds our categories.
Research proposal on organoids as supports for biological computing.
HAL 9000 as a cultural figure of artificial self-monitoring turned unsettling.
In the Culture series, Minds are civilizational, diplomatic and strategic AIs: they shift language toward mediation.
A foundational book that frames life as a carrier of molecular order and transmissible information.
The intelligent ocean as a mirror of human memory and conditions of thought.
A speculative scientific paper proposing that an advanced civilization could have intentionally seeded other worlds.
A book in which Francis Crick develops the idea of a possible cosmic origin of life and popularizes directed panspermia.
A contemporary novel using panspermia and extraterrestrial biology as engines for communication and survival.
Foundational text on knowledge and control of cognitive processes.
Important study on animal metacognition and uncertainty responses.
A story about the time scale of galactic communication and the waiting imposed by light speed.
The Decree of Memphis, inscribed in hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek, provided the decisive internal translation for decipherment.
An administrative tablet from Pylos showing how an unknown system can be approached through regularities, constraints and testable predictions.
A methodical account of the work of Alice Kober, Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, combining statistics, linguistic hypotheses and archaeological confirmation.
Daniel Keyes explores cognitive enhancement and its effects on identity, relationship and solitude.
Augmented intelligence reaches levels of thought that become mutually unreadable.
The pharmacological fantasy of instant access to near-unlimited cognitive power.
Memory, identity and cognition become permeable to networks and artificial bodies.
Mixed work for electronics, two percussionists and six vibratory loudspeakers, by Bertrand Wolff, François Rossi and Damien Ravnich.
Foundational text for the notion of Umwelt: each living being inhabits its own world of signs.
Central work for the notions of rhizome, assemblage, multiplicity and becoming.
Official UNESCO record for the Nazca and Palpa lines and geoglyphs.
H. G. Wells novel that shaped the modern imaginary of Martian invasion and collective panic.
The black monolith as a mineral, silent and programmatic object: a form that acts without translating its intention.
Philosophical essay on the irreducibility of non-human subjective experience.
Radio adaptation famous for turning fiction into a media event.
J. G. Ballard's novel in which the world crystallizes: the inorganic becomes transformation, beauty and threat.
Cultural reference in which contact transforms environments, bodies and perceptions.
Roger Caillois reads stones as natural images: a theory of form without human authorship.
Sound arts and literature residency at Chalet Twin Peaks, Courtenay, July 19-30, 2026.
Research field useful for thinking signs before human language.
Stone instruments in which mineral matter becomes voice, rhythm and sonic alphabet.
A poetic educational film about the fourth dimension, slices, projections and the difficulty of seeing beyond our space.
A carbonaceous meteorite famous for organic compounds, often cited in debates on prebiotic chemistry and panspermia.
An environmental intelligence reconfigures life, bodies and evolution beyond the classic sender-receiver model.
First interstellar object observed in the Solar System: a limit case for thinking of stellar objects as archive, anomaly or possible sign.
Almost wordless fables in which readers learn the regularities of a world without receiving instructions.
A silent narrative that makes readers experience arrival in a world whose writing, species and customs are unknown.
A manufactured extraterrestrial appearance becomes a geopolitical speech act with global consequences.
Contact without human language, based on object, evolution, mystery and radically other intelligence.
Major text for thinking difference beyond models of identity and resemblance.
Point Central imagines interstellar diplomacy among species that share neither one environment nor one culture.
Major scientific paper on the structure and function of the ancient astronomical calculator.
The story turns panel, page and book into metaphysical operators acting upon the character’s world.
A wordless graphic novel and walk-through installation in which direction, space and the reader’s body become language.
A direct reference for the luminous finger: contact as bodily gesture, fingertip light and an emotional imagination of signal.
Presentation of the Yale manuscript, a central example of an organized but undeciphered book.
First contact through motifs, tones, light and repetition: a sensory grammar of encounter.
Contemporary development of assemblage theory after Deleuze.
A rural first-contact comedy where signal passes through body, gas, food, hospitality and misunderstanding.
A central book for thinking about paradigm shifts and changes in scientific worldviews.
Radio signal, decoding, machine, scientific proof and individual experience.
Deleuzian account of affect, movement, intensity and the virtual.
Research database on Andean quipus as textile data systems.
A theory of hybrid networks linking science, society, instruments and narratives.
A musical architecture in which one motif generates a world of transformations.
A rupture connecting logic, machines, artificial intelligence and pattern formation in life.
A political and bodily approach to contact: alienness, fear, language, contamination and colonial relations.
Posthuman continuation of Deleuze around non-anthropocentric subjectivities.
Reference report on technosignatures and the search for non-human technological indicators.
Habitability, survival, transmission, fictional fifth dimension and cosmic time.
A key film for A.L.I: linguistic protocol, circular signs, translation, misunderstanding and non-human temporality.
A recent fictional reference where media speech is rewritten as mathematical and semiological notation.
An iconic radio message composed as a binary image: numbers, chemistry, DNA, human figure, planets and telescope.
An archive object sent beyond the Solar System: sounds, images, music and greetings as a terrestrial self-portrait.
A famous crop-circle pattern because it appears to replay and alter the structure of the Arecibo message.
A UFO archive of letters, symbols, invented vocabulary and documentary strategies around an alleged civilization from Ummo.
A radio trace turned cultural icon: a brief, unrepeated signal transformed into a sign by the 6EQUJ5 annotation.
A tool-formula that turns the question of communicating civilizations into discussable parameters and a research program.
A mathematical relation condensing circle, wave, phase, exponential and complex numbers: a possible formal kernel for A.L.I.
A sound and light sequence that became a cultural model of contact: five pitches, repetition, response and translation into light.
A Golden Record sound excerpt used on the homepage: Morse as minimal rhythm, archive and human cultural signal.
Moonlight Sonata translated into Morse, sent to the Moon, reflected back and replayed with the losses of the journey.
A set of sound excerpts created to explore breath, glottis, uvular friction and vibration as a possible prelinguistic layer.
An episode of Les Chemins de la philosophie on plurality of worlds, linking cosmology, metaphysics and human decentering.
An episode centered on Fontenelle, useful for understanding how life elsewhere becomes an accessible thought experiment.
A contemporary entry point into the political and philosophical issues raised by extraterrestrial contact.
A France Culture archive on the question of life elsewhere in the universe.
Loïc Hecht's essay on the simulation hypothesis and its contemporary philosophical implications.
Quentin Dupieux animated film connected to characters discovering the simulated nature of their world.
Major popular culture reference on simulated worlds, code and awakening beyond the interface.
Nick Bostrom's paper formalizing the contemporary probabilistic simulation argument.
Video game about free will, narration, obedience and a character becoming aware of the system directing him.
Open-world video game used here as a cultural example of simulation, agents and emergent behavior.
