The need to invent a hermetic signaling system within a community arises whenever the community is inside a disciplinary system from whose gaze and actions it wants to evade, that is, directly indicative of a crisis state. Examples of such signaling systems were the ciphers of the early Christians, prison semiotic systems, and various cryptosystems that made the signal invisible and impenetrable. The emergence of a new signaling system within the existing one indicates the disciplinary nature of the latter and exposes the nature of space as a regime object.

In the a-b-c survival project by means of new media, a signal system is created that allows making the values of symbols dependent on the version of the program, which becomes an additional condition for the correct reading of the message. The dynamism and interactivity of the mechanics allows not only to receive messages, but also to create more complex cypher-punk mechanics, where, for example, a message can be read only if there are several graphical clues or only knowing at what time the message is correct. Thus, there is an infinite field of combinations between the graphic sign and its decryption, protecting the cypher-punk community.

The form of the graphic keys is not chosen by chance. On the one hand, it is a means of masquerading as birthmarks, affecting the “brotherly” context within the community. On the other hand, the use of territorial borders of disappeared states is a form of commemoration of memory in order to preserve the memory of the reasons that caused their disappearance.

Alisa Smorodina Alfia Miftakhudinova Eugenia Suslova Pavel Seldemirov Gediminas Daugela