Starting from the beginning of 2021, the Hierocodic visual language was developed to denounce all the wrongs of our capitalist, colonialist and patriarchal society and propose some micro-solutions for very specific problems. Therefore it is an exclusively political language. (…)
“Hierocodic” comes from “hieroglyphic [signs]”, with explicit reference to the formal monumental writing system of Ancient Egypt, and “codic”, the made-up adjective of “code”. “Hierocodic” thus means “sacred signs having a connection with the computer code”. In Hierocodic, the life of everyone is sacred.
Hierocodic uses mainly its own alphabet consisting of 50 alphabetical bricks. These alphabetical bricks are made using a 3D modeling and rendering software starting from a predefined 2D shape (a square or a rectangle with rounded corners, or a circle), to which a thickness is added that varies depending on how the bricks are used. The predefined 2D shapes are those of the common adhesive labels used in offices, archives and in school and home contexts, on which words and numbers are placed to describe or catalogue contents. These labels are usually white. (…)
The bricks are used to build hieroglyphs, then rendered. The final version of the current historical catalogue of hieroglyphs dates back to 2024. But at any time new hieroglyphs can be born.
The hieroglyphs are used to build bas-reliefs (then rendered), also defined from a technical point of view as photo-drawings. The final version of the historical bas-reliefs included in this archive dates back to 2024.
Around the central figure, both hieroglyphics and the bas-reliefs have a data frame. The data frame represents the personal data (including character data) and behavioural data collected by Big Tech and now also by all other companies and commercial initiatives as well as by military intelligence as always, scanning our lives through technological devices, starting with computers and mobile phones. (…)
In the series THE FOURTH COSMOGONY Hierocodic plays of an important cameo role. It appears as the Ordering Principle of the Universe but is immediately annihilated by the three Vital Forces (Standardization, Homologation and Individualism) that cancel out its positive effects. In fact, I don’t know how much Hierocodic bas-reliefs might contribute to the world’s just happiness, but they will try anyway.