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The aesthetic quality of location Last weekend, I built a simple 2×4 + plywood work bench for my workshop. I had just finished wrestling with a heavy vise, mounting it to the pine frame, and was standing back to admire my handiwork. I was pleased with the outcome and happy with the aesthetic of the…
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Prima Vice
The first artist notarization On May 25, 2025, I traveled to Providence, RI to meet with artist Vinnie Ray Fugere. He had agreed to collaborate on the first-ever in-person artist notarization—a live effort to capture, measure, and document the creative process as a way to prove the humanity of the artist and, by extension, confirm…
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Anyone Can Witness: An Open Invitation
“Anyone can cook…but only the fearless can be great!” In the 2007 animated movie “Ratatouille”, there is Gusteau, a famous French chef, who writes a cookbook entitled “Anyone can cook!”. In the story, “anyone” includes a rat named Remy and his hapless friend Alfredo Linguini. I was inspired by the movie, its message, and its…
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Proof of Humanity: The Future of Verification
Today, we are asked daily… Prove that you are a human… We are captcha-trained. Select all images with statues. Soon, these proof-of-humanity tests will need to become much more subtle and complex. Describe, in single words, only the good things, about your mother. These tests are meant to establish a root of trust — that you are,…
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Transient Graphs
To me, moments in life, each individual minute, even second, that goes by is made more meaningful via thoughtful observation. This attention is mainly qualitative but it occasionally get quantified – think pictures, videos, etc. My notion of a transient takes the quantification idea to its logical extreme, arguing that the actual measurement of existence…
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10eo is like cash
Walking home you discover, to your delight, a $100 bill resting on the sidewalk. You smile, bend down, pick it up, and continue on your way. You’re excited because this $100 note has given you new power: the permission to spend. You are now permitted to trade its unique combination of paper + ink for…
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10eo – An Example
This is the beginning of a short series to help explain 10eo – what it is and how it works. 10eo is an art form defined by its exploration of authenticity and objective truth. It is an examination of trust. Foundational questions: 10eo provides a framework for entertaining and evaluating these questions. A 10eo artwork…
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10eo – The Art of Possession
How do you secure human trust in a world where virtually everything can be faked? What are creative ways to combat the looming onslaught of digital artifice? Aesthetically, I feel the allure of analog processes, IRL interactions, wetware and human-centric authenticity – flaws and all – art forms unreachable by computers. Below is an initial…
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Transients – Geospatial Graffiti
Our lives are defined by space and time. We need a way to annotate our passage – to decorate the timeline of our existence. This concept uses generally accepted methods of identifying location and measuring time to create a digital framework onto which information can be uniquely attached/stored for later retrieval and analysis. Core Philosophy…
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Transient App
I’ve recently started to write a mobile application (React Native) as a way to explore my concept of transients more literally. In this case, I want to capture all the sensor data that today’s cell phones provide and use it to build and store a transient in a database (Firebase/cloud) and then, in turn map…
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