Translinguistic Equation
An artwork written in mechanistic terms - spin resonance, alkaloids. It is the clearest statement in the archive of language treated as an operating system rather than a description of one.
Why this record belongs
In the record's own words the work concerns "amplifying the higher cortical experience by translinguistically encoding DNA electron spin resonance into monoamine inhibited harmala alkaloids", and it calls the result a visualisation of language as a living quantum field. It is the archive at its most mechanistic and at its most literal: language treated as an operating system, consciousness as the field it runs in. Read alongside the room's account of UT's constructed scripts, it is the clearest single statement of what the Xenolinguistics is for.
UT's own construction - language as a working system
Curated reading — into the next stop
From a mechanism stated as text to a figure stated as image, and to the artist's own account of where the piece came from.
Ask the Oracle about this record
“The record describes this in mechanistic terms - electron spin resonance, alkaloids. What is the artwork doing with that language?”