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// 03/23/24 New Faculty Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

// 08/04/23 Agent άλφα & Agent Qi/氣, 3D printed characters designed for stop motion, ASU MIX Center Fab Lab, Phoenix, AZ

// 06/29/23 Useful Fictions VR+Robotics Session, Ecole Polytechnique, Saclay, France

// 06/19/23 Useful Fictions Pre-Workshop Montreal Session, University of Quebec in Montreal, Dr. Sofian Audry's Artificial Intelligence Lab

// 06/29/23 Useful Fictions VR+Robotics Session, Ecole Polytechnique, Saclay, France

// 06/30/23

Reshaped Agents a1, a3, Useful Fictions VR+AI Workshop Exhibition, Théâtre de la ville de Paris, Espace-Pierre-Cardin, Paris, France

// 06/30/23

Useful Fictions VR+AI Workshop Exhibition, Théâtre de la ville de Paris, Espace-Pierre-Cardin, Paris, France

// 1/15/2023
the Fold: episode II trailer...

// 11/03/2022
Mudra Agent (Energy) training to balance an orb requiring 8 million steps to reliably achieve its intended goal:

// 05/15/2022
Recording of Agent 氣/Qi training to ascend a flight of stairs:

// 05/01/2022
Agent 氣/Qi training to walk from less than 5k to 4 million training steps. They are still unable to climb steps which requires additional training:

// 02/14/2022
Agent Marcgritte adaptively responding to obstacles within their environment

*M01 Chant I: Making of Cyborg, Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell Soundtrack)

// 04/01/2022
Everything from Here to Infinity, Gallery Hakusen, Tokyo, Japan

// 04/01/2022
Trailer video for Gallery Hakusen virtual reality showcase in Tokyo, Japan

// 04/01/2022
Two-channel study for "Liminal Performance (Agent Qi/氣): Innocence, Agony, Ecstasy", a machine learning training session where Agent Qi (氣) transitions from innocence to ecstasy in an attempt to reach infinity. Twenty four instances of Agent Qi is trained in real-time to present a rhizomatic performance where Qi attempts all possibilities. Sound is from open source recordings of Buddhist mantras processed in real time.

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// 04/01/2022
Two-channel study for "Liminal Performance (Agent άλφα): Not a Pipe at the Threshold of Consciousness", a machine learning training session where Agent άλφα attempts to reach a synthetic pipe (and doesn't learn much in the process). Twenty four instances of Agent άλφα are trained in real-time to present a rhizomatic performance where άλφα attempts all bodily possibilities. Sound is from open source recordings of Buddhist mantras processed in real time.

// 03/22/2022
the artist's self portrait with Kohrin-in, 方丈前庭園（水源一滴の庭）, dry rock garden, Kyoto, Japan

// 03/22/2022
the artist's self portrait with Zuihō-in (Temple Daitoku-ji 瑞峯院）, dry rock garden, Kyoto, Japan

// 03/01/2022. Ryōan-ji: The Temple of the Dragon at Peace. Approximately 15th Century by Hosokawa Katsumoto?

// 03/01/2022

Left: One example of many Western attempts at Cartesian analysis of the Japanese Rock Garden at Ryoanji in Kyoto, Japan.

Right: Sentient agent perceiving a synthetic rock garden (two philosophical ideas as it relates to consciousness in friction within a simulation: Western Cartesian knowledge and the Eastern suggestion of infinity and emptiness). The sentient agent training can suggest a rhizomatic approach to perception (Deleuze), suggesting infinite vantage points and pathways (albiet not all of them will lead anywhere). The rock garden suggests letting go of all thoughts, distractions, and ego (the agents seem to have no ego other than the will to recieve a reward). Fuzzy logic is applied by the agent in order to develop a consensus of the T-shaped platform that is numerically refined over time by training within the system. At the current environment's scale, it takes 1.5 million simulated training steps in order to achieve a reliable degree of performance from the agent.

*Many early successful applications of fuzzy logic were implemented in Japan including handwriting recognition systems by Sony, pocket computers, helicopter flight aids, to early recognition of earthquake detection through the Japanese Institute of Seismology Bureau of Meteorology.

// 03/01/2022

Screencapture of multiple instances of a synthetic agent, the bicycle stool, training on multiple instances of the same environment. Agents use synthetic vision in order to gain a consensus of the T-shaped platform that is numerically trained over time. A reward is given to the agent each time it passes through the door. A negative reward is given each time the agent falls off the T-shaped platform.

// James Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror Selfie
// 2/22/22

// 07/13/21 Everything From Here to Infinity
inkjet prints mounted on plexi, 25"x25" & 50"x50", edition of three of each size with AP

// 07/08/21 The Fold: episode I
dye sublimation prints mounted on aluminum, 20"x30" & 20"x40", edition of three with AP

// 08/22/2019

Bernard Cache, Earth Moves, 1995, one of Cache's visual idioms conveying Gilles Deleuze's concept of the "fold"

// 01/15/2017

Petrus Apianus, Cosmographia, 1546, early quantitative visualization involving time and money

// 02/20/20 The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair, Toronto, ON. CANADA

// 06/07/19, Elektra International Digital Art Festival, Perte de Signal, Montreal, QC. CANADA

// 03/01/18, The Chazan Family Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI. USA

// 11/03/17, Worldbuilding, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON

// 07/20/17, Gallery DOS, Seoul, Republic of Korea

// 07/04/17

Korean carved stone starmap made during Joseon Dynasty, Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido, "chart of the constellations and the regions they govern" circa 14th century:

// 08/22/16

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: 3D polar projection as animated gif

// 10/30/15

The flow of particles as described by Steven Gubser where an electron (e-) produces virtual particles: photons (y), positrons (e+), and more electrons. The cascade of particles is slow enough to keep track of mathematically:

// 10/30/15

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)

// 02/28/15

// 02/28/12

// 02/03/11

///// "Virtual Orreries", 3D printed casings, custom electronics including custom programmed Raspberry Pi's, 7.5" HD LCD screens, custom shelf, and animations: 'The Frequency of Space/Time', 'An Alternate Framework', 'Alpha Centauri', 2014