Rules of the Shared Canvas
How pixel wars and community gardens teach us the brutal, necessary art of getting along with our neighbors.
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Photos and Short Stories
The Legibility Gap in Production
Opaque statistical correlations produce consistent outputs but destroy legible execution, forcing us to trade deep understanding for raw computational speed.
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The Angle of the Bench
How the physical design of park benches and the digital algorithms of neighborhood apps shape our everyday local social connections.
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The Thinning of Industrial Memory
When automated systems replace human processes, the formal steps survive while the unwritten reasoning that made them work disappears.
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The Space Before Choice
How retail shelf design and digital feeds pre-select what we see, transforming repeated exposure into what we call personal taste.
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The Physical Weight of Digital Intelligence
Modern computing networks project a false weightlessness while driving massive global consumption of electricity, water, and rare raw physical materials.
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The Social Silicon of Resilient Communities
How a 1973 Berkeley computer terminal reveals the power of local arts sectors to serve as offline backup systems.
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The Silent Feedback Loop
A look at how early automated tutoring systems replaced the teacher-student relationship with closed, self-optimizing loops of machine data.
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The Flattened Eye of Digital History
Synthetic images of 1970s design are quietly replacing real history in online archives, changing how we look at the past.
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Why AI Literacy Needs Real Hardware
Canada's physical AI literacy hubs prove that understanding complex systems requires handling actual servers rather than clicking through online slideshows.
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