ANTILOG_13May26a

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ANTILOG_13May26a

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2026-05-13 22:10:30

* I have been working very hard on a lot of different things;

* I have been working on the systematic abstract formalization of all my systems, adding redundancy, sometimes purposely deleting content in the archives that either contain errors that aren't useful or signals that didn't degrade gracefully;

* When I find good content in the archives, though, I like to put it in display, which is part of my ongoing interdisciplinary art-research project, The Archives-Project;

* Here is something from over a decade ago which caught my eye and deserves to be mentioned here. I quote:

02:04 2015-09-14

* The "ArtOps" circles represent what I call "Art Operations" in a system I am developing (I'm only developing the theory for now). Basically, they represent "art practises", except that in this model, they are modelled as DAOs or "distributed autonomous organizations".

* The "broker_ops" are also DAOs, a.k.a. "Broker Operations". And it's the same for the "Art Exchange" which is just a kind of "Art Market", modelled as a kind of "Financial Exchange" if you will, also a DAO.

* Basically, you can just imagine each circle as an "automaton" or "finite state machine" or "abstract machine", if you want. The "ArtOps" machines need the "broker_ops" machines to interact with the "Exchange" machine.

* Many ArtOps interact with many brokers who interact with a single Art Exchange, at least that's as far as I've gotten for now.

* It's mostly a system I am modelling for a series of novels I'm writing. It's something that characters in the novel will be building, these interconnected systems of Distributed Autonomous Organizations.

* This is relevant because I'm really working hard, working overtime, double-time, to formalize my practice as i said earlier;

* This is what this is all supposed to lead to, in all earnestness and truth;

* The Art-Ops-in-a--Box Concept; I have been working diligently on this and with great work ethic for at least over a decade; the image is something that I truly believe will become possible, and remember, this was all designed long before the types of LLMs that people are using today, and agentic AI or AI agents, the kind that can be orchestrated or that will orchestrate and coordinate themselves, among each other;

* I said in the text that I cited above from September, 2015, that I was only "I'm only developing the theory for now." I have now actually been building out the scaffolding for the system, which has many moving parts, many "subprojects", large-scale complex conceptual schemes, a boat-load of techniques, technologies, and processes/practices that I collectively often refer to as the ALX-system; 

* I started a project probably last year or maybe a little farther back called "Noise in The Workspace"; I made some first experiments in the First Series and published them online; I have been continuously documenting everything on my computer, in the cloud, and on web assets/resources;

* I have had my own website for the longest time now (alexgagnon.com), and again at some point in the last few years, I purchased another domain name, historiotheque.ca, which had content about my art studio, called, as many of you know, the Historiotheque;

* I also realize I have been using machine intelligence for the longest time now; in any case, I've been documenting all my processes and practices, realizing that my practice is a nonlinear practice; I have been investigating what all of this means;

* I have been doing countless experiments with Generative AI; I find I have had much success with my experimental method of interacting with Large Language Models, as a contemporary, interdisciplinary artist-researcher;

* To go back to the ArtOps, iit really is an abstract machine, possibly even something more advanced, now that I have taken a step back and am observing it; everything is sytematized in my practice, and nonlinear; I run on a tight schedule, which essentially is a simple job scheduling algorithm, with one machine and one worker, through and in a WORKSPACE;

* I used a randomized dynamic task assignment algorithm, done manually, operated manually, like most of my art-research practice; anyway I've been busy logging and documenting as I have already said;

* THE TAKEAWAY: The Art Operation ("ArtOps") and broker_ops ("Broker Operations"), the Art Exchange ("Art Exchange Ops"), the whole thing being an ART OPERATIONS ECOSYSTEM;

* The system is pretty simple for modern agentic AI / AI agents frameworks; just a simple coordination problem with n number of each Op-type;

* Lastly, the Art Operations@Historiotheque, a name I gave it at least as far back as 2015, is really a mature art-research practice, and the space has lived up to its name; I talk about the randomized task assignment + scheduling task whose nonlinearity, I think, allows me to be much more productive than i would otherwise be; I have been publishing what I call Official Releases of Semantic Version X.Y.Z. of The Historiotheque, the Historiotheque in this case being treated as a unique kind of software I call "Cultural Software"); My Release cycle launches and shuts down and relaunches in a rapid cycle, with sequenes exhibiting a lot of bursty behavior with high-creativity, high-productivity, and then at other times I have more fallow periods, where I am somewhat less prolific, and are like my downtime with the Art Operation "shut down until further notice"; I also call the art I do "Field Art", and probably should write a manifesto about it; I should probably publish a manifesto compiling all of my techniques, technologies, methods/methodologies, processes, and practices;