z0glyphic 913 is a speculative symbolic language built from recursive mistranslation. It has 142 atoms, 12,946 words, its own grammar and its own drawn typeface, and it runs in two modes. SPEAK is exact: English goes in, glyphs come out, and the glyphs read back. CAST is the mistranslation: it feeds what it reads back into itself and lets it drift, until new patterns emerge.
CAST runs on my own data. Every day I track myself the way an ad company would, which I call Surveil Thyself. The language misreads that record, and what comes back becomes the artwork: posters, short clips, collages and, in the end, paintings I make by hand. When enough days circle the same subject, the group is a Spell.
This site is for the language and how the system works. My own website, brettamory.com, is under construction and launches soon. That is where my past and new artwork will live.
Shitty Productions prints from the language: the Oracle, constructs, and other pieces of it.
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Where the language stands
| words | 12,946 |
| atoms | 142 |
| english words mapped | 15,739 |
| constructs | 13 |
| dictionary hash | 3fe4c6e63844fbe2 |