Like most artists, I experiment a lot but show very little publicly. I have been sitting on Transcripts and Communication Systems for quite a while. With Communication Systems, I focused on the visual outputs and stories within each piece. With Transcripts, I aimed to utilize motion to mask the actual art and data, envisioning how other world figures may translate.

Seeing an announcement from Art Meets Science on CT played a big role in a redirection, especially since I had been exploring Part 2 of my Intergalactic edition, which I had created one year prior. Combining the two helped align my vision towards a curiosity around real human signal messages sent through computers to aliens and machine entities.

The more I researched the history of human contact, the more the concept for the artwork aligned itself. The Arecibo Messages have seven parts, each consisting of binary digits with messages about human biology, our solar system, and Earth's life.

Each Transcript stems from a foundational pixel artwork. This is where I took the data I researched and mapped it into the meanings I wanted for the outputs. For example: Do you hear us? Is anyone out there? The pixel assets were also inscribed and linked to the parent artwork.

Art often requires custom tools to accomplish a vision. When creating an acrylic painting, I search endlessly for the perfect brush and paint thickness combinations. Digital artwork is no different. The image below shows a web application I have built over the years. In this case, the UI enables me to import SVGs and convert them into 1 to 1 code characters.

While the custom tools are fun to develop, they often close only 2% of the gap. Proper ASCII artwork requires meticulous attention, time, and patience. In the step below, I take the characters and begin to develop my generative mapping.

The generative mapping for the outputs contained a pretty in-depth output structure and rule guide consisting of: Character type, Character length, Animation type, Animation speed, Scroll type, Scroll speed, Color system, and a few other hidden tricks.

Each artwork comes with custom messages, like "We are explorers of space and time," and human and alien characters hidden behind the animations if you are creative enough to uncover them.

Each inscription allows clicking a "link" in the marketplace, opening the artwork in a fullscreen experience where it infinitely animates with vibrant, illuminating colors.

The story helps shape the output of each artwork. Yet my personal desire to experiment with code-to-3D mapping continues. Most of my 3D artwork contains code patterns I made in Processing or Javascript and then applied to the 3D objects. What makes this 3d video artwork particularly unique is it's my first collaboration with Maning [pixel artist] and R4cerx [sound design].

I want my art to speak throughout the collector experience. As much as I love the process of creating art, the web experiences and physical creations tend to be the candy that additionally inspires me. I hope the viewers enjoy the little secrets throughout the website.