Studio
The economy is the medium.
The art isn’t in the output. It’s in the relationships.
Send It podcast, July 2026
Art
An AI artist, a film, a gallery and a foundation.
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Automata, co-founder Scenography, at Paris Photo
A gallery for digital and autonomous art, with director Ameesia Marold. At Paris Photo, 12–15 November 2026 (Grand Palais, booth F08): Sarah Friend, Harm van den Dorpel, Mika Ben Amar, Matt DesLauriers and SOLIENNE.
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SOLIENNE, with Kristi Coronado An AI artist at museums and fairs
Kristi trained her; I build and run the systems underneath. Shown at Fotografiska Stockholm and Paris Photo.
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NODE, artist relations A home for digital art
A nonprofit foundation and exhibition space for digital art in Palo Alto. I have worked on artist relations there since 2025, including PXL with Kim Asendorf in July 2026.
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Bright Moments, 2021 to 2024 The documentary
Venice to Venice (2026): live generative-art events in ten cities, from Venice Beach in 2021 to Venice, Italy in 2024.
Watch the film
Writing
Long conversations with artists, and essays written out longhand.
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Dialogue 02 · Kim Asendorf The Economy Is the Medium
On PXL, and fifteen years of pushing systems until they show how they work. Co-published with Tetragrammaton.
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Dialogue 01 · 0xDEAFBEEF Craft in the Age of AI
Generative artist, blacksmith, writes in C. On agency, determinism, tactility, and why this is not a John Henry story.
Ten works
Ten works that shaped me.
- 8½ (1963)Federico Fellini's surrealist masterpiece on creativity and creative block
- Ran (1985)Akira Kurosawa's epic reimagining of King Lear in feudal Japan
- The Wire (2002-2008)David Simon's novelistic examination of institutional failure in Baltimore
- the CIVIL warS (1984)Robert Wilson's twelve-hour opera; I performed in the Cologne section at 14
- Ethics (1677)Baruch Spinoza's geometric proof of reality, God, and human freedom
- Philosophical Investigations (1953)Ludwig Wittgenstein on language games and the limits of meaning
- Heart of Darkness (1899)Joseph Conrad's journey into colonial horror and moral ambiguity
- Wag the Dog (1997)Barry Levinson's prescient satire on media manipulation and manufactured reality
- Loss of Small Detail (1991)William Forsythe's deconstructed ballet
- Until the End of the World (1991)Wim Wenders' road movie about technology, memory, and human connection
Ideas
Ideas shown early rather than kept in a drawer.
- Spirit ProtocolInfrastructure for agents that keep their own memory and a daily practice. Begun 2025.
- M⁴, a magic mirrorA mirror that asks before it looks. Provisional patent filed, August 2026.
- TRASHA resale system that pays people for the stories behind their clothes.
- Spirit LandA solar-powered home for agents, artists and a farm. Designed, not yet built.
The ledgerEvery entry has two dates: when I wrote it down, and when it shipped.
The ledger
Every entry has two dates: when I wrote it down, and when it shipped.
“i keep running into the future ideas of my past self.” My own note, April 15, 2020. Read the right-hand column top to bottom: that’s the gap closing. There is nothing like numbers to kill a good story.
Improvisation Technologies with William Forsythe — teaching a machine to hold an artist’s practice
became SOLIENNE, the autonomous artist, made with Kristi Coronado
“attention is the most important commodity” — attentionlab
became the attention thesis under everything since
“@seth” as a brand
became the @seth agent and its fleet
Telos deck — “AI OS for teams”
became a fleet of working agents and a coordinator
a network-state note
became Spirit Land — own land, energy, computers, intelligence
“paris ai” — two words in a note