Design Principles for Enzo
The design principles behind Enzo: explicit syntax, consistent patterns, and a human-first approach to names, values, control flow, and composition.
Oct 17
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2025
2024
2023
Maps of the World in Its Becoming: Visual Essay
A visual essay connecting trout camouflage, Turing patterns, and neural-network imagery, with an artist statement inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Dec 18
Idolatry Machine
An image series and collaged altarpiece exploring idolatry, abstraction, and the ways image-making can lead us astray, with a look at the generative process behind the work.
Apr 20
How Artists Can Set Up Their Own Neural Network — part 4 —
Turning neural style-transfer outputs into finished digital paintings: choosing source images, balancing color and contrast, curating results, and building layers in Photoshop.
Apr 6
code as pure art
Can code itself be art, rather than just a tool for making it? An exploration of programming as skilled expression, from code aesthetics to instructions as an artistic medium.
Apr 4
What is Latent Space, for artists?
An artist-friendly explanation of latent space, moving from familiar coordinates to learned relationships between images, words, and concepts, with experiments in image prompting.
Mar 27
An AI Art Ethos
My principles for working with generative neural networks: sharing images freely, being transparent about process, and separating artistic value from scarcity and price.
Jan 26
2021
2018
How Artists Can Set Up Their Own Neural Network — Part 3 — Image Generation
Running DeepStyle, tuning image-generation commands, and automating batches with Bash, including practical advice on producing larger images in the original local workflow.
Dec 7
Skonk Works
Rebuilding my creative workflow around a personal cloud server, containers, backups, and automation, and what that experiment taught me about the tools artists use.
Nov 29
Tutorial for Artists on how to use a Neural Network — Part 2
An introduction to the command line for artists, followed by the original DeepStyle installation workflow using Torch7, loadcaffe, and CUDA on Ubuntu.
Apr 30
How Artists can set up their own Neural Network — Part 1 — Installation
Preparing a Windows PC for the original DeepStyle workflow: hardware requirements, installing Ubuntu, and setting up a Linux environment for neural-network art tools.
Apr 24
2017
A Brief Review of Quill VR
A hands-on look at Quill as a VR drawing tool, comparing its feel with other creative apps and examining brush behavior, workflow limitations, and export problems.
Jul 30
Quick Review of Google Blocks
Testing Google Blocks as a VR modeling tool: the promise of direct manipulation, the limits of its simplified tools, and the cleanup needed to use exported models.
Jul 13
How Artists Can Use Neural Networks to Make Art
An introduction to neural style transfer for artists, showing how generated imagery can become raw material for layered digital paintings rather than a finished result.
Mar 7
What I’ve learned sculpting in virtual reality — Oculus Medium
Lessons from sculpting in Oculus Medium: how voxel-based tools change the creative process, where VR feels intuitive, and why a desktop cleanup workflow still matters.
Feb 23