The main reference for this project is the astrolabe, the ancient instrument used by Islamic astronomers from around 550 AD for measuring time, location, distances and cosmic patterns. The astrolabe was really a network technology, with which humans and stars came up with answers by performing a ritual together.

Today, we've filled the skies with enough signals and artificial satellites that it's not inconceivable to think that they could also be read like stars. The objects presented here point to different measuring and intra-active rituals for a new kind of astronomy that takes into account natural and artificial bodies.

Algotypes is an intervention in the 2.4GHz WiFi band, inspired by the more esoteric sides of science that have been used to explain invisible phenomena.

Unlike æther or orgone, and despite pop-culture imagery of The Cloud, WiFi has a very material and tangible provenance. From minerals and metals to its radiant energy, there’s a very blunt aspect of this entanglement of culture and infrastructure that is physical and extends into surrounding bodies.

Here, the pyramid sculptures are equipped with WiFi transceivers and programmed to react to the signals present around them. They capture packets of data from nearby routers and phones, which are then manipulated using classical computer science algorithms before being retransmitted.

Screens display information about nearby WiFi networks, and visualizations of the packets being read and transmitted.