Cyborgrrrls
Technofeminist Cosmic Message

We write this code in parallel from opposite latitudes and from distant temporalities, the present of ones of us is the past of the others, while it is the future of the others.

At this time, external terrestrial ‘powers’ desperately seek the reinstallment of expired forms of totalitarian control to place humans in little boxes.

However, us cyborgrrrls, have learned to live in uncertainty, just as spiders weave their webs into an amorphous solidity capable of coping with any external shock, natural or artificial.

Thus, with our legs at distant points, in seemingly unbalanced positions, on the verge of stumbling, but with determination, we create this record in the virtual world and transmit this message. – Cyborgrrrls, Mexico-Berlin

Puerto Rico, 16 November 1974: a ceremony to celebrate the newly remodelled Arecibo Telescope. This occasion was marked by a radio broadcast into outer space aimed at a cluster of stars 25,000 light years from Earth. The broadcast? A semiprime number of binary digits made up of the numbers one to ten, some elements such as carbon and oxygen rendered as atomic numbers, the DNA double helix, a graphic figure of a human – the 5'7" average United States adult male of the time – and the human population of the planet at that time, graphics of the solar system and the telescope itself. Not an attempt to correspond with extraterrestrials, merely an anthropocentric flex.

Escribimos este código paralelamente desde latitudes opuestas y desde temporalidades distantes, el presente de unas es el pasado de las otras, al tiempo que es el futuro de las otras.

“Poderes” terrestres externos desesperadamente buscan la reinstauración de formas expiradas de control totalitario para meter a les humanes en cajitas.  

Pero las cyborgrrrls, hemos aprendido a vivir en la incertidumbre, así como las arañas tejen sus redes en una solidez amorfa capaz de enfrentar cualquier impacto externo, natural o artificial.

Así, con las patas en puntos lejanos, en posiciones aparentemente desequilibradas, al borde del tropiezo, pero con seguridad, creamos este registro en el mundo virtual y transmitimos este mensaje. – Cyborgrrrls, México-Berlin

2026, Cyborgrrrls launch a techno-feminist message into cyberspace. Away from this binary male dominant narrative, their envoy includes womxn and other species and it resists the faux-precision of neatly packaged data. The message is multiple, amorphous, it forms and reforms. Referencing pre-Colombian Hispanic iconography such as Códice Boturini, this message can be redrawn in ASCII and hidden in our web projects; it can be spraypainted on our vehicles and boats; tattoed on our skin; it can be broadcast on our local radio stations or whispered in our sisters' ears.

We invite you to download the complete image series and their ASCII versions and use them as you will. They connect us as we weave our webs.