Projects / Works
A.L.I also produces objects, installations, dedicated interfaces and sound works developed from LABO research.
Connected object / light installation - in development, 2026
A peer-to-peer network of small touchscreens turns drawings into regional light scores. Each night, volunteer devices interpret one glyph together without handing their control to a central server.
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
1 articles connect structural anthropology to the languages, forms of life and contact hypotheses explored by A.L.I.
29.08.2026
Lévi-Strauss looks for relations beneath myth, kinship and wild thought. Van Gennep describes passage through separation, liminality and incorporation. Could their intersection help design an interstellar contact protocol?
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.
Lamont Lindstrom traces the colonial and anthropological construction of the term “cargo cult”.
A Smithsonian account of Kenneth Arnold’s report and the media birth of the flying saucer.
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.
Lévi-Strauss’s chair, lectures and research on kinship, myth and systems of transformation.
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.
Dia Art Foundation documents Robert Smithson’s earthwork, its construction and transformation in Great Salt Lake.
Institutional presentation of the message carried by Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11.
Chemosynthetic ecosystems powered by reactions among water, rock and reduced compounds.
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.
Net.art work for sending an encrypted message to oneself or another recipient on a future date.
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.
The first audio-language foundation model specialised for bioacoustics, with open documentation, weights and zero-shot evaluations.
Work awarded the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize on zebra finch calls and their categories of meaning.
SETI Institute overview of the filtering of billions of detections and their follow-up with FAST.
Authoritative overview of the principal theories and problems of truth.
Illustrated codex held at Yale whose text remains largely unsolved.
Major work of immaterialism: the world is thought from perception rather than independent matter.
The conflict between truthfulness as duty, situation and consequences in Kant’s debate with Benjamin Constant.
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 official US records of Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book and the Air Force conclusions.
The reader becomes copyist, carrier, and the text’s survival infrastructure.
A reaction-diffusion model explaining the emergence of biological patterns.
Peter Worsley connects religious movements, economic exploitation and political demands.
Wild thought as a logic of sensible qualities, classifications and transformations, not primitive thought.
MOCA presents the dimensions and 240,000-ton displacement that constitute Michael Heizer’s earthwork.
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.
Camera and application sending a photograph into the future or to an invisible area named Audela.
Lake Whillans demonstrates chemosynthetic microbial activity beneath roughly 800 metres of ice.
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.
Primary paper on Nebula, interference removal, multiplet ranking and FAST targets.
Research paper describing the model architecture, training and evaluations.
Original research article describing the plaque’s construction, decoding and anthropocentric limitations.
The foundational study distinguishing separation, transition and incorporation in changes of status.
The Tanna case shows how local practices and administrative narratives jointly produced the cargo-cult image.
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.
The classification of reports and the formulation of close encounters.
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.
Offline peer-to-peer network of USB drives embedded in public space.
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.
An acidic iron- and sulphur-dominated environment used to prepare biosignature searches.
International recommendations on safety, ethics and equity in genome editing.
Machine-learning mapping of contact calls and the possible structure of the repertoire.
Acquisition architecture and coherent searches over 123,000 Doppler drift rates.
UNESCO situates the geoglyphs within the cultural, social and ritual traditions of pre-Hispanic Andean societies.
A self-referential statement that challenges bivalence and theories of truth.
French institutional discussion of Pioneer, Voyager and the responsibilities of spacecraft messages.
Minoan administrative tablet: the script is known, but the language behind Linear A is not.
An anthropological sequence describing the threshold and the transformation of status.
Logical systems adding one or more values to true and false: possible, indeterminate or degrees of truth.
Case files, interviews and correspondence from a physicist who argued for scientific study of resistant cases.
The monolith and HAL shift contact toward evolution, AI, and the incommensurable.
Documented history of ARPANET, email, TCP/IP and open networking architecture.
The novel behind Stalker, where extraterrestrial traces are incomprehensible leftovers rather than human-readable messages.
Contemporary archive of controversies concerning nudity and human representation.
John A. Ball proposes that extraterrestrial intelligences deliberately avoid interfering with Earth.
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.
JCVI-syn1.0 established that a synthesised chromosome can control a recipient cell.
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 popular biographical fiction about Turing, Bletchley Park, and Enigma, to be read alongside historical scholarship.
NASA builds a calibrated map of night lights from the VIIRS sensor aboard Suomi NPP.
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.
Open infrastructure connecting data, denoising, annotation, representations, benchmarks and generative models.
Primary study establishing the 3.98 × 10^8 W narrowband transmitter limit within the observed band.
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.
The foundational paper connecting Boolean algebra, electrical relays and binary architecture.
The map as a machine for revealing alignments, and later as a lesson in selection bias.
Crick and Orgel examine the deliberate transport of microorganisms between planetary systems.
Institutional archive on Tim Berners-Lee’s invention of the Web and its release into the public domain.
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.
Loeb and Turner propose distinguishing artificial illumination through distance scaling and spectral signatures.
Archives engraved on ceramic and stored in a salt mine to transmit documents into the distant future.
A NASA volume on the cultural, semiotic and interpretive obstacles to extraterrestrial communication.
The Turing test becomes an experiment in power, desire, embodiment, and manipulation.
Canadian assessment discussing dialects, regional calls and the difficulty of comparing repertoires.
Institutional presentation of FAST by the National Astronomical Observatories of China.
The Shimmer imagines otherness communicating through refraction, mutation, and biological rewriting.
Project using machine learning to analyze sperm whale codas and explore their communication.
A contemporary plate combining water, languages, poetry, the Drake equation and public participation.
The United Nations describes around 200 groups and restates their rights to autonomy and territory.
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 archival example of a confident media prediction becoming a famously false headline.
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.
From punch-card coding to a French public infrastructure for aerospace phenomena.
FUNAI protects the self-determination of isolated peoples without making contact compulsory.
Official history of an architecture separating identity, route and destination through encrypted relays.
Erasing a romantic memory transforms the very conditions of identity.
Organization developing open AI tools to study and decode animal communication.
Official rules for the core, intermediate and peripheral quiet zones around FAST.
A speculative anthropological formulation of the future-human visitor hypothesis.
An archival object and transmission protocol tied to the passage of an interstellar body.
Technical and ethical framework for testing generated signals without disrupting animal populations.
Thomas Beatty quantifies conditions under which future telescopes could constrain or detect global urban illumination.
Complete assemblies and the pangenome distinguish missing sequence from biological functions still unknown.
A controlled study of conversational indistinguishability in selected large language models.
A quantitative framework for searches for probes and technological artefacts in the Solar System.
Field notes, correspondence, technical files and social trends gathered by Jacques Vallee.
Electronic landscapes where sound becomes threshold, presence, and voiceless thought.
First contact becomes forced reproduction, contamination, and conflict between organism and corporation.
Peer-to-peer architecture distributing documents to protect publication, persistence and anonymity.
Paper proposing a fine analysis of sperm whale codas: rhythm, tempo, rubato, and ornamentation.
Risk framework describing confidently presented erroneous content as confabulation.
Contact considered as withdrawal, gap and the active organisation of absence.
Ethological framework for analyzing behavior through function, mechanism, development, and evolutionary history.
Carl Sagan distinguishes UFO reports from the instrumental search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
A satire in which invasion hides within advertising, money, and the commands of mass culture.
Store-and-forward protocol for disrupted or highly delayed space communications.
Risk framework distinguishing plausible but erroneous output from a human intention to lie.
The shift from extraterrestrial hypothesis to a radio-astronomical programme and a revisable equation.
Experimental test of Bell correlations and the limits of local-realistic descriptions.
Assessment of AI agents’ capabilities and limits in complex scientific tasks.
Historical reference in ethology, useful for placing animal signals within observed behavior.
A functional Soviet computer based on balanced trits −1, 0 and +1 rather than bits.
A search built on duration, instruments, interference rejection and institutional continuity.
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.
Applications of AI to signal detection, technosignatures and astronomical data analysis.
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.
