The primary failure of modern SETI is the "Anthropic Filter." We scan for radio waves because we use radio waves. We look for binary code because our computers run on binary. We are effectively searching the ocean for skyscrapers, ignoring the distinct possibility that an advanced civilization might communicate via molecular structures, gravitational ripples, or quantum entanglement.
Xenolib is currently more philosophy than code. It requires a collaboration between programmers, poets, mathematicians, and musicians. We are attempting to build a library for books that haven't been written, in alphabets that don't exist, by authors we haven't met. xenolib