PHASE 01
DETECTION
The first archive is opened. 5,555 unique visual records document a signal with no confirmed source.
CURRENT / OPENRADIO ASTRONOMY DIVISION / ART RESEARCH UNIT
Something was
detected.
UNKNOWN SIGNALS is a multi-phase art experiment built around fragments of a transmission nobody was supposed to hear.
LIVE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS1420.4057 MHz
ORIGINUNKNOWN
INTENTUNRESOLVED
CLASSANOMALOUS
01 / PURPOSE
NOT A COLLECTION. NOT A STORY. AN EXPERIMENT.
A living visual archive exploring how mystery changes when data becomes art.
Every artifact is generated from a constrained system of devices, signals, origins and classifications. The result is not designed to explain the unknown — only to document it.
02 / PHASES
THE EXPERIMENT UNFOLDS OVER TIME
PHASE 02
DECODING
Patterns begin to emerge. The archive changes from observation to interpretation.
CLASSIFIEDPHASE 03
CONTACT
The boundary between observer and subject becomes difficult to define.
UNCONFIRMEDPHASE 04
?
There is no public record for this phase. What happens next is part of the experiment.
REDACTED03 / ARCHIVE
DOCUMENTUS-77-4413
MEDIUMGENERATIVE ART / DIGITAL ARCHIVE
EDITION5,555 RECORDS
STATUSOPEN / OBSERVATION CONTINUES
04 / DETECTION
USRD / RADIO ASTRONOMY DIVISION / EVENT 07-4413
The signal was not random.
A narrowband anomaly was recorded during routine observation. Its origin remains unknown, but the archive contains repeated structures that do not behave like ordinary interference.
FREQUENCY1420.4057 MHz
ORIGINUNKNOWN
INTENTUNRESOLVED
ARCHIVE5,555 RECORDS
OBSERVATION NOTE // Some signals appear to contain information only when examined individually.
05 / THE PUZZLE
13 RECORDS ARE DIFFERENT.
Somewhere inside the archive, 13 signals contain information.
We do not know why. Twelve appear to reference fragments of a hidden sequence. One appears to contain an instruction. The records are indistinguishable until they are decoded.
5,555ARCHIVED RECORDS
13ANOMALOUS SIGNALS
12 + 1FRAGMENTS / ORDER
+
WE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO HEAR THIS.
Keep listening.
UNKNOWN SIGNALSEST. 2026ARCHIVE_01