It was great to be a finalist on this call for the 50th anniversary of the Arecibo message. Very honored to be acknowledged by the jurors: Art Meets Science
Seth Shostak – radioastronomer, worldwide known author and Senior Scientist of SETI-Institute in the USA;
Anika Meier – curator and publicist, spezialised in generative art
Thomas Kraupe – astrophysicist and former long-time President of the International Planetarium Society;
Bjoern Wirtjes – PLANET KA and co-initiator of the open call
Susanne Paech – Foundation Herbert W. Franke and science writer
"Martín (Mexico)Arecibo Message Arriving at a Galactic Center Henon-Heiles models the nonlinear dynamics (sometimes chaotic) of a star around a galactic center. These images represent the galactic dynamics being perturbed by the Arecibo message in the form of linear bits, that is, the 1679 binary string perturbing the equations of motion. The images show the phase-space projection of the 4 variables that compose the equations. Every projection conveys the idea of how the arrival of the Arecibo message would "shake" the dynamics of a planet (or group of planets) once they hear from us, the homo sapiens, probably gone or now exploring the Universe."