Wiki index

Catalog of all wiki pages. Updated on every ingest or new page creation.

About

• About — Dissociations — what this site is; the 2010 mechanism (triadic elimination, interval space); Warburg lineage; the 2026 LLM mutation; how to navigate

Concepts

• Recursion and Self-Reference — self-containing definitions; radical autonomy as self-enclosure; the stop-condition problem; mise en abyme, the documentation formula, the recursive title, feedback loops (→ 876, 878, 992, 854, 856)

• Semiotic Square — New/Old/Different/Same and its negations; the N→∞ matrix of artistic practice; relevance as the displaced problem (→ 901, 1010, 909, 912)

• Assemblage Identity — contingent, historically emergent identity; individual singularities; the tension between categorization and particularity; the "everything vs. anything" problem (→ 639, 952, 581, 912, 1301)

• Randomness and Pattern — information as pattern; randomness as its absence; workmanship of uncertainty; chance as method (→ 805, 609, 709, 846, 852, 878)

• Mediation and the Archive — the archive transforms what it records; flickering signifiers; the work as accumulated mediation; documentation as constitutive (→ 1301, 837, 805, 992, 846)

• Impulse, Risk, and Method — discovery vs. decision; the deepest impulse; reverse engineering; navigation as ontology (→ 793, 709, 609, 952)

• Subconscious Computation — the algorithm as device for following the deepest impulse; feedback loops as design; net art lineage; craft enabling non-arbitrary surprise (→ 709, 793, 952, 609)

• Protocol, Taste, and Systems — taste as the through-line (personal → collective → systemic); Dissociations as training data; Delinear.info and 952; Markov melancholia; permanence of change; making protocols desirable (→ Droitcour 2025, 709, 952, 992)

• Process Legibility — Construction as Image — "the construction of an image is the image"; criterion vs. code (what AI cannot replicate); "tested not executed"; aging vs. beauty (Franke); against seamlessness as position (→ Stained Unravel text, 992, 709, 609, 793)

• Evolutionary Logic — Cartesian Genetic Programming; fitness functions; non-coding genes as latent archive; death as selection pressure; "life is a 3.5 billion year old technology"; algorithmic archaeology (→ CGP Miller interview, Spike #70, 709, 609, 952)

• Senescenence (exhibition, 2026) — cellular automaton / Game of Life; death as system feature not failure; loom genealogy (weaving → pixel → GPU); sacred geometry; "less composed than initiated"; temporary negotiations with impermanence (→ press release, 709, 609, 952, 876)

Reference

• Works Overview — complete chronological catalog of works and series; medium trajectory; naming patterns; exhibition history; links to harm.work throughout

Themes

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Summaries (ingested texts)

• "The Squircle of Life," Spike #70 — interview with Tina Rivers Ryan; fitness functions across Death Imitates Language / Nested Exchange / Mutant Garden; the squircle as UI intervention; algorithmic archaeology; fossils; the limit of pure randomness
• "A 3.5 Billion Year Old Technology" — CGP interview — van den Dorpel interviews CGP inventor Julian F. Miller; CGP mechanism; non-coding genes; the halting problem; "life is a 3.5 billion year old technology"
• "Subdued Iconoclasm," ZORA ZINE (Dec 2021) — "the unconscious is manifested through that"; theology/Jung as ground for subconscious computation; subdued iconoclasm; ownership metaphysics; Event Listeners history; left gallery; Death Imitates Language on-chain plans
• Struggle for Pleasure, Verse SOLOS London (2024) — hermetic vs. gentle iterative process; pixel as dialogic unit; Pointillism; mandala; "knowledge itself breaks down"; pleasure through resistance not nostalgia
• "Magicians Conceal, Artists Reveal" — ars celare artem as the classical doctrine; the modernist inversion (Impressionism → Cézanne/pentimento → Cubism → Pollock → Conceptualism → protocol art); AI as perfection of concealment at industrial scale; van den Dorpel as radicalization (concealment structurally impossible); the reveal as continuous not dramatic

Syntheses & queries

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