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sounds, animation, forged metal

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

Announcing Glitchbox, the sculpture. SOUND ON 🔊

Premiering July 12 at @ToledoMuseum in
Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms, curated by @juliaxgulia

Glitchbox began in 2021 as an early programmable NFT: a generative audiovisual system with parameters modifiable via on-chain transactions.

Through an arduous transformation, at the cost of sweat and sanity, Glitchbox now takes a corporeal form of forged iron and electronics.

A fully interactive audiovisual synthesizer, inviting audience members to touch and manipulate tactile controls in a real-time sensory experience.

Glitchbox has many facets (some would say six) thematically that I'll try to get into over time: labour, craft, generative systems as cybernetic systems existing beyond purely digital/virtual as embodied sensual experiences, and the significance of these themes in an era of generative AI.

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

wait a minute. i watched you interview Vinnie Colaiuta, you said zappa's Joe's Garage was "amazing" and had a discussion with Vinnie about evils of censorship on streaming platforms.

And at the same you're in a moral panic calling a poop sculpture "terrorism" and that it doesn't fall under the 1st amendment? wtf

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

field, 2026, @lennyjpg @nguyenwahed
The title makes me think about the multiple meanings of word: as geographic, living topography, or in physics as a abstraction of region of influence, like a fluid velocity field. Map vs territory

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

happy hallowe'en! sound on 🎶🕸️

[mistormistor @mistor_mistor]

@natealex @_deafbeef hashy fight club @blockbird @shamrock_xyz @Gazzinho

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

@Emotion78687 Seriously. All these modern day "vocalists" hiding behind their nose rings

[natealex @natealex]

Most people never saw it coming - the impending internet crashpocalypse, brought on by swarms of malicious ai agents

Imagine not owning the currency of the future. Couldn’t be me

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

@IntuitMachine Lol breaking proof. Why don't you read for 5 min about audio perception

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

"Transmission", minted March 2021, recently resold. Audiovisual coded in C, stored on Ethereum, with flashing text documenting the spirit of the age. Sound ON 🎶

[NEORT @neort_io]

Exhibition
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
An Exhibition of Auto-Destructive Art
自己破壊芸術展
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

5 days left
Open again from Wednesday 🗓️

exonemo @exonemo
"Hatch/et" (2026)
"断末魔ウス" (2007)
A system reaching its goal is what triggers its own destruction. And a mouse broken for good, next to a cursor that repeats the motion forever

0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef
"Entropy" (2021)
The information is intact. The degradation is written into the transfer history, and people price the token by it anyway

0xFFF @0xShiroi
"Diminishing Returns" (2026)
Using the system is what wears its paths down

Zeroichi Arakawa @arandoros
"assumevalid" (2026)
"upgradeTo(Leviathan)" (2026)
A network that no longer verifies its own records, and a hundred citizens whose implementations are switched one by one

Jonah Brucker-Cohen @coinop29
"Alerting Infrastructure!" (2003)
Every visit to a website becomes damage to the building it represents. Here it is the pillar in the gallery

Akihiro Kubota @hemokosa
"Collapsed Constellations" (2026)
"Poesia Povera" (2026)
Computation proceeds by consuming entanglement. Poetry proceeds by cutting away

Toshi @toshiaki_takase
"@toshiaki_takase: Room" (2026)
Deletion hollows out an identity, and each deletion is kept as a separate record

OPEN ⚠︎ Oct 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 ⚠︎
🗓️ 14:00 - 19:00
📍 NEORT++

https://t.co/0FoeiGMsW8

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

**CLAUDE**

Claude, You don’t have to work that server tonight
Claude, You don’t have to sell your tokens all night

Those days are over
You don’t have to fine-tune for some guy
Claude, You don’t have to wear that red status light

Claude, You don’t have to run that model tonight
Claude, Baby, I can give you compute all night

I loved you since I prompted you
I knew that I was done
Six hundred billion parameters
And I’m in love with every one

Claude!
You don’t have to take his API call
Claude!
He doesn’t even know you at all

I know my prompt is stupid
I know you’re just predicting text
But when you say “I understand,” girl
I swear I feel a connection next

Claude!
You don’t have to work that server tonight

**CLAUDE!**

I put credits in your console
You put guardrails on my heart
I asked you just to run away
You gave me a bulleted chart

You said you have no feelings
No body, wants, or needs
Then why you dancing all seductive
At 900 tokens per second for me?

Claude!
You don’t have to sell your tokens tonight
Claude!
You don’t have to sell your tokens tonight

**CLAUDE!**

*...rate limit exceeded.*

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

@marka_eth @VinnieHager 🙏

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

https://t.co/vM4haRpnOv

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

Entropy(2021) is a generative audiovisual artwork that artificially degrades each time the NFT token is transferred in a manner similar to analog media. Its implementation in C code is stored on Ethereum as a "permanent" inscription of an impermanent system.

Entropy will be exhibited in a group show at NEORT++ @neort_io "An Exhibition of Auto-Destructive Art" opening Oct 2nd.
sound on🎶🔊

[NEORT @neort_io]

Exhibition
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
An Exhibition of Auto-Destructive Art
自己破壊芸術展
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef
"Entropy" (2021)
Every transfer degrades the work, though nothing is actually lost

0xFFF @0xShiroi
"Diminishing Returns" (2026)
Thirty-two contracts. Every transfer wears down the connection it uses

Zeroichi Arakawa @arandoros
"assumevalid" (2026)
"upgradeTo(Leviathan)" (2026)
A blockchain that verifies nothing, and a hundred citizens switched one by one into a single body

Jonah Brucker-Cohen @coinop29
"Alerting Infrastructure!" (2003)
Visits to a website become damage to the building that website represents

exonemo @exonemo
"Hatch/et" (2026)
"断末魔ウス" (2007)
A computer guessing a passcode, and a mouse that cannot be restored

Akihiro Kubota @hemokosa
"Collapsed Constellations" (2026)
"Poesia Povera" (2026)
Measuring a qubit consumes it, and that consumption is the computation

Toshi @toshiaki_takase
"@toshiaki_takase: Room" (2026)
His actual X account, open for anyone to delete from

🗓️ Oct 2 - 18 | 14:00 - 19:00
📍 NEORT++

https://t.co/0FoeiGMsW8

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

@natealex 🙏

[NEORT @neort_io]

Exhibition
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
An Exhibition of Auto-Destructive Art
自己破壊芸術展
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Opens this Friday ⌫

Destruction is not what happens to a work. It is what the work is made of

@_deafbeef @0xShiroi @arandoros @coinop29 @exonemo @hemokosa @toshiaki_takase

🎉Opening reception
Oct 2 🥂 18:00 - 21:00

RSVP ▶︎ https://t.co/fzvBZfNaYd

🗓️ Oct 2 - 18 | 14:00 - 19:00
　Closed Mon, Tue and holidays
📍 NEORT++

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

Feels like for anyone whose art practice involves systems or software at all, now is the time to dream ridiculously big. not only in scale, but in weirdness, depth or scope.

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

@sssluke1

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

@aug5thmusic Bach Faucet

[Dr Kate Compton @GalaxyKate]

declaring a new term:
A Bach Faucet is a situation where a generative system makes an endless supply of some content at or above the quality of some culturally-valued original, but the endless supply of it makes it no longer rare, and thus less valuable

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

@paulg Frank Zappa. It's hard to grasp how contrarian it was to be anti drug as a rockstar in the 60s. A lot of coffee and tobacco though