The data frame is present in all the Hierocodic bas-reliefs and always has the same meaning. The basic 2D shape that serves to create the 3D shape indicating the data is that of the label measuring 21 x 8 mm, but the shapes of the other very small labels are also used.
The data frame is not a decoration but represents the second subject of the bas-reliefs, as important as the first (i.e. container ships or intensive farming).
While every twist puts a strain on the lives of many human and non-human beings, an activity that deserves more attention from all continues undisturbed, affording those who exercise it the economic domination of the world. At any moment of our lives, the big logistics and digital technology companies, which are also active in many other strategic sectors including medical, military and aerospace technologies, implement programs for collecting and processing our personal and behavioural data, an inexhaustible raw material deriving from the daily experience of each of us, with which they obtain large revenues, first of all through advertising.
Tax and legislative advantages in all countries of the world, combined with the knowledge gap between politicians and the private sectors of information technology research, mean that this activity continues to expand and develop. So much so that we must now talk not only about recording and monitoring our actions on and offline, but even about the possible prediction of these actions, thanks to the techniques with which the behaviour of others (humans, too, not only animals) can be influenced and changed. We are faced with a new form of capitalism (for me, patriarchal greed), the surveillance capitalism without rules masterfully outlined by Shoshana Zuboff.
Even when the 3D labels that form the central image of the bas-reliefs do not explicitly represent humans or their activity, they still refer to them, which is why the images are always surrounded by a data frame, which seems to leave them neither breathing room nor a means of escape.
For the orderly arrangement, the shapes used in the data frame are also reminiscent of the keyboard keys of desktop computers, the pixels of which the digital images are composed and, considering the encirclement they practice to the detriment of the subject, the oppressive cage in which they are locked up and live computer-addicted or Web-addicted. What is certain is that information technology has built an infrastructure around us and our lives that can continually absorb something from us and control what we do and how we do it.