Extraterrestrial Alphabet

2021
Grafic
Electromagnetic images, character chart, process graphic

„Extraterrestrial Alphabet“ is part of the project Outer Space Transmitter. At its center is the question of whether extraterrestrial life is possible – and what communication with an unknown intelligence could fundamentally look like, without assuming a shared language, culture, or other frames of referece. For this purpose, I developed a sign system that translates visual information into a transmissible
signal – technically precise, yet not bound to human language.

The project is based on the assumption that art can communicate without words: through pattern, rhythm, proportion, and repetition. The “language of art” thus becomes a possible interface between different life forms – not as a message with fixed content, but as an experimental model of what can be perceived under unfamiliar conditions.

Installation view, 2023, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (Germany)
Extraterrestrial Alphabet – character chart, 2021
Electromagnetic art image (2400.430 MHz) transferred to RGB image, 2021
Process – from text to electromagnetic image, 2021