Swirls of Fortune (2025) now available on Karmetplace.thesphere.as

.The Sphere's Karmetplace is live! The full set of 6 works have just been shown during Funding The Commons in Berlin as part of "Grace is a Coin With More Than Two Sides" a group exhibition curated by beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) and Stina

At The Sphere , we create what we call protocol art: The development of systems — both technical and relational — that sustain live and experimental art. Protocols are instructions for interaction — they structure action, sequence, relation. They can be rigid, or soft.

The Sphere The Anarchiving Game extends this logic: a living system where artists deposit fragments not as static records, but as seeds for future acts. This is a database, but also a collective, interdependent composition — a memory machine built for continuation.

At Funding the Commons, I presented The Sphere’s work on protocol art — how artists design systems for memory, value, and transformation. This thread summarizes some of what we’re exploring. Thank you to Funding The Commons beth mccarthy (🪄,✨) for inviting us!

“The Artificial Unconscious” by Germán Sierra argues that classical psychoanalysis’s linguistic “splitting” of the subject (Freud/Lacan) meets a counter-tradition of multiplicity and machinic unconscious (Jung, Deleuze/Guattari), and that the latter maps more productively onto

A lovely new moon correspondence from The Sphere, by Lenisnt and fugitive planner just arrived in newsletter format: thesphere.substack.com/p/proof-of-cel… You'll find some quite interesting updates, spells, invites, and also a spoiler of an upcoming text for reincantamento.xyz s/o's to

lovely to reminisce about our celebration of resilient infrastructures, frontier art and tech, and durable communities at Funding The Commons Berlin! thanks for the beautiful reflections dear The Sphere Lenisnt fugitive planner

What the world needs now is groupcore The old internet is dead. A public space built on shared protocols and open APIs so powerful they created an immense universe that overtook the world that birthed it. In its place: the new internet, built on the foundations of the old.