Digital Code Art · edition of 50
MULTIVERSE MAP
Not drawn. Coded.
Thirty years of superhero cinema, mapped like a city's underground.
77 films. Every continuity on its own line. Every crossover an interchange. Every station sits on the exact month its film reached cinemas.
MULTIVERSE MAP was not drawn by hand, and not generated by AI. It was written: built in code the way a website is built, then rendered for print. Each line, curve, station and letter is placed by a program, calculated to a fraction of a millimetre, and checked by automated tests before a single print is made. Nothing is eyeballed and nothing is approximated. Every connection on the map comes from a sourced fact in the data underneath.
The result is about 139 million pixels at 300 dpi, sharp from a metre away and from ten centimetres. It is giclée-printed in archival pigment inks on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, a 100% cotton museum paper, and framed by hand in Auckland.
A Digital Code Art original by Ulrich Frerk · Shaved Monkeys.
By the numbers
What it took
Measured by the build, not by hand · piece version 0.11.005 · 15/15 checks passing · generated 2026-10-07T08:30:00Z
In the frame
Deep black box. Art glass.
Up close
Sharp from ten centimetres
How it's made
Four steps. No eyeballing.
The data.
Every film, release date and on-screen crossover is researched and recorded with a source. One continuity, one line.
The code.
A program turns that data into geometry: the timeline, the routes, the curves, the interchanges and the type.
The checks.
Automated tests prove that no labels collide, every station is in its release year, every line weight is printable, and every crossover is sourced. If one fails, nothing prints.
The print.
Giclée-printed from a 300 dpi master on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: museum-grade, 100% cotton, acid-free paper made in Germany, the same stock galleries use for fine-art editions. Archival pigment inks. Printed in Auckland by Print Art.
Materials
- Paper: Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 100% cotton, acid-free, museum grade
- Inks: archival pigment giclée
- Printed by Print Art, Auckland · Framed by The Black and White Box, Auckland
- Framed edition: deep black box frame, rigid archival mount, non-reflective art glass
Edition & price
Reserve yours
A1 limited edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist (841 × 594 mm). The price rises as the edition sells:
A1 limited edition of 50
A1 — 841 × 594 mm · —| Framed | Unframed | |
|---|---|---|
| #1–15 | NZ$2,950 | NZ$950 |
| #16–35 | NZ$3,450 | NZ$1,150 |
| #36–50 | NZ$3,950 | NZ$1,350 |
A0 Grand Edition of 10
A0 — 1189 × 841 mm · —| Framed | Unframed | |
|---|---|---|
| #1–10 | NZ$6,500 | — |
A2 print, open edition
A2 — 594 × 420 mm · —| Framed | Unframed | |
|---|---|---|
| Open edition | — | NZ$450 |
Artist's proofs: 3 per size, released last at the top price.
Shipping is quoted for each order because of the size.
Pay a deposit today to reserve your print: 50% for framed editions, NZ$300 for unframed. We'll come back to you with framing options and a shipping quote. You only pay the balance once you've accepted the quote, and the deposit is refunded in full if you don't.
Independent artwork. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Marvel, Disney or Sony. Film titles are used for identification only.