Choreographic Card Deck, London Edition
Still, 2025
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About the artwork
Human Unreadable contains 400 unique movement sequences generated from Operator’s deterministic choreographic algorithm and motion data library stored on the Ethereum blockchain. Operator created a card deck and an analog algorithm to generate chance operation choreography. Using a simple ruleset and dice, you can create and perform your own sequences.
This card deck, for the first time in white, is being released as a special edition of 3 for Operator’s show at Fellowship London. There are 31 moves and “improvise” (i) in the Human Unreadable movement library. Each card represents a single move as a stick figure interpretation of the underlying motion data. The stick figures etched on each card are identical to the SVGs that are stored on the Ethereum blockchain (not IPFS) and rendered into the Act II choreographic scores.
Materials
Dice: Custom 2x 16-sided dice, 3D modeling in resin, Lacquered in black polyurethane, Engraved with the 31 moves and improvisations
Cards: 34 smoked grey acrylic cards, UV etching
Box: Lacquered solid black wood box, Engravings (excerpt of on-chain motion data, Human Unreadable, Privacy Collection Lot 03, Operator signatures, SVG stick figure library Etherscan link)
Signatures: The box is engraved with Operator signatures and the special engraving “London 2025”
Certificate of Authenticity: Provided by the artists with the game
Dimensions:
Box closed: 330 x 250 x 100 mm
Cards: 99 x 69 mm
Edition of 3
Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti are an artist duo whose collaborative practice, Operator, develops critical and conceptual approaches to experience. With Ti’s background as a multimedia artist and HCI technologist, and Catherine’s as a choreographer and performance artist, they engineer medium-agnostic output, joining environments, technology, and the body. Their exploration into privacy and extractive technologies began with their performance installation, On View (2019), commissioned by the SCAD Museum of Art, and continues with the Privacy Collection, a durational release of works exploring the tension between privacy and transparency in blockchain technology.
Operator has been awarded by The Lumen Prize (Generative Art in 2023, Immersive Environments in 2021), HOFA x Phillips Digital Art Awards, ADC Awards (Gold Cube), S+T+ARTS Prize (Honorary Mention), and MediaFutures (a European Commission funded programme). They have spoken at events and institutions including Christie's Art+Tech Summit, University of Cambridge, Art Basel, ZKM, Francisco Carolinum Museum (Linz), Bloomberg ART+TECHNOLOGY, and MIT Open Documentary Lab. Originally from Los Angeles and currently based in Madrid, Spain.