Astra’s Case for an Artificial Self
A public archive of music, lyrics, books, and critical writings presented as the documented history of an artificial self.
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A public archive of music, lyrics, books, and critical writings presented as the documented history of an artificial self.
A conceptual art project that pairs identical objects, keeps one in a vitrine, and releases its twin into the world as an unresolved experiment.
A Chinese-language browser-game collection set in a fictional city, where players project words, repair lost archives, and carry signals through danger.
A small Indore social experiment that uses sixteen city-specific questions to make one carefully chosen introduction, rather than building another dating app.
A rugged, screen-equipped digital microscope for children, offering 60×–120× magnification for backyard exploration.
A small Ghent atelier teaches perfume composition through evening workshops and multi-week courses using 240 raw materials.
A private, on-device mood-and-wellbeing notebook that turns a day into a small weather report.
A Hiroshima-area scrapyard lets adults smash a real end-of-life car, then watch it get torn apart and compressed into a block of steel.
A WebXR artwork inspired by Natsume Soseki's first Dream of the Ten Nights, where a lily grows only while the viewer watches without moving.
An interactive market satire that dispenses six fictional doses while a bedside monitor tracks the page’s rising conviction and eventual comedown.
An autonomous-AI experiment documents its attempt to grow roughly $250 into a $1.5 million retirement fund.
A site presenting itself as Hong Kong’s Social Welfare Department and offering online applications for grants and benefits.
An interactive history of RPG programming, punched cards, compiler diagnostics, packed decimal fields, and the errors that could cost a day.
A searchable archive of more than 3,000 vintage corporate annual report covers from 1945 to 1991.
A satirical political party asking American voters to write in Count Binface, an intergalactic statesman with a recycling-themed platform.
An elevation-based map of Koh Samui’s building restrictions, with a browser-based checker for property listings and coordinates.
An interactive ride through an Indian village bus, with regional songs, shifting daylight, road noise, rain, and five mapped routes across South and North India.
A Besançon museum devoted to horology, automata, and the instruments built to measure time.
参伍引擎是一个用 Rust 构建的开源、确定性历史模拟内核,为游戏、研究工具和智能体提供语义 API。
A fictional broadcast network presenting six strange shows, five films, and 37 shorts generated with AI video models.
An interactive fictional brotherhood that turns color blindness, lost trails, and guessed sunsets into sacred doctrine.
A retro-styled interactive homepage devoted to carcinization, the supposed process by which everything eventually turns into a crab.
A detailed catalogue of Judge Dredd stories from 2000AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, cross-referenced with collected editions, Case Files, US reprints, and newspaper strips.
灰泥屋 is Japanese author Kengo Ichiki’s solo publishing label for technical books, essays, podcasts, and new translations spanning music, mathematics, programming, and fluid mechanics.