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Experiments

Art, provocations, and things I probably should have pursued harder.

These don't fit the other categories, and that's the point.

Raccook is a test of whether an AI agent can maintain a blog with zero human intervention. No Entrance is a gallery designed to make viewing harder, not easier. OnlyBots was the same concept as Character.ai — three years before Character.ai. WeirdPress is a home for creative work too strange for any existing platform.

Some of these are art. Some are provocations. Some are proof-of-concepts for bigger ideas. A few are things I probably should have taken more seriously at the time.

  • Raccook
    • Art blog maintained by an AI agent.
    • Generative raccoon art, published automatically via Folderblog. The agent creates, writes, and publishes.
    • Zero human intervention. The experiment is the pipeline, not the art.
  • No Entrance
    • Art gallery that fights back.
    • Timed reveals, viewing queues, pieces that vanish if you scroll too fast.
    • A commentary on attention and the assumption that everything online should be instant. The friction is the point.
  • WeirdPress
    • Publishing for the strange.
    • Glitch art, absurdist fiction, surrealist photography.
    • A home for work too weird for Instagram and too visual for literary magazines. Curation as creative practice.
  • FakeStock
    • AI-generated stock photos on demand.
    • Describe what you need, get it. No licensing, no model releases, no posed office handshakes.
    • Built because Shutterstock wanted $30 for one image.
  • OnlyBots
    • AI social platform — built 3 years before Character.ai.
    • Custom AI personalities, shareable and interactive. Built in 2020 with GPT-2.
    • Shelved because the models weren't ready. Character.ai raised $150M for the same idea in 2023.

    Built 3 years before Character.ai raised $150M for the same idea. Timing.

  • Liveposter
    • Animate posters with JSON. Built for my students.
    • Animation library for image transitions and effects, configured via JSON.
    • Made for UQAM design students who knew code but not After Effects. Now an npm package.

    Built for my UQAM students who knew code but not After Effects. Now an npm package.

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