Field artist

I have been publishing my work online for well over twenty years. Across that time I have used a deliberate "breadcrumb" method: a trail of key terms, keywords, and hashtags left across more than a dozen websites and social media platforms, so that the whole of my interdisciplinary art-research practice can be followed as a practice — evolving, branching, and documenting itself in real time.

The method is simple. I maintain a controlled vocabulary of custom hashtags — each one defined once, in the glossary below. Search for any of them and you will find, almost exclusively, my content: the posts are the live trace, and they point inward to documents, artworks, code, and publications that carry dates, catalog numbers, and (for major works) DOIs. Alongside them I use standard tags (#Phenomenology, #ElectronicMusic, and the like) as on-ramps; the custom tags are the interior. If you arrived here from a hashtag, you are in the right place — start with its definition.

The breadcrumb trail above is the live trace; the citable record sits elsewhere.
My ORCID profile is the canonical public listing of my research outputs — every
item on it carries a DOI:

ORCID profile

Releases of the Historiotheque operation itself — repositories, datasets,
publications — are archived with DOIs on Zenodo and collected in the
Historiotheque community:

Historiotheque community on Zenodo

#historiotheque — My studio, sound-design, and research laboratory, conceived as cultural software: an operating system for the practice, issued in numbered Official Releases. The Outer Historiotheque is the working operation — projects, archives, documentation; the Inner Historiotheque is the sustained attention from which all the work stems.

#artoperation — The practice run as an operation rather than a career: defined procedures, operator roles, documentation standards, and releases. The Historiotheque is an art operation; its declarations, logs, and releases are the operation's instruments.

#newdocumentation — The doctrine that documentation is not the wrapper around the work but the work itself. Logging, documenting, and archiving happen automatically in the course of production — the working method is the documentation method.

#refcardsproject — The Refcards-System: a simplified card catalog in which each Refcard treats a single unique concept — atoms of knowledge — in a personal knowledge web inspired by library card catalogs, Otlet's Mundaneum, HyperCard, and the early World Wide Web. Fifteen years in development; the backbone of the Historiotheque's knowledge organization.

#databasearts — The overarching aesthetic concept: an art of the database age, in which works are assembled in a vast database as an unordered, searchable, recombinable set. The working method is to work into the archive — diving into old projects to generate new ones.

#signalscience — A signal-based view of the universe and everything in it: one of the two foundational sciences of the practice, pursued through theoretical research and visual and audio experiments.

#noisefieldtheory — A noise-based view of the universe: noise treated not as interference but as plenitude, the ground of experience. Its artistic form is the noise field — modulated fields of noise in digital painting and sound.

#seasonsoftheheart — A personal secular liturgy that tracks the inner life through seasonal phases rather than calendar seasons:

• #springtimeoflife — the season of emergence and renewal.
• #summeroftheheart — the season of joyful being and full production.
• #autumnofatonement — the season of reckoning, revision, and the work of grief.
• #winterofthesoul — the season of inwardness, dormancy, and rest.

#historyproject — The History-Project: the long-running novelistic project — including the Revolt of Fiction trilogy — that treats history itself as novelistic material.

#archivesproject — The Archives-Project: the continuation of the History-Project; archival experiments and the novels of the archive; the conceptual backbone of the Deep-Archive Project and the Archival Arts.

#historiomics — The systematic vocabulary of the historical: the "-omics" of the practice — terms and distinctions for studying historical traces as a total field. A vocabulary in active development.

#fieldsofdiscourse — The discursive fields of the practice: the conceptual domains — systems, signals, data types, control flows — in which the work articulates and argues itself.

#fieldsofexperience — The unified field of experience: the claim, from atmospherics, that experience itself is a continuous, pressurized, resonant field in which the practitioner moves — not in front of the world but inside it.

#antisignal — My signal-name; also a concept in development: the antisignal as resynchronization signal — the counter-signal that re-tunes a noisy channel.

#quickrefs — The quick-reference layer of the practice: compact reference repositories and materials for fast lookup across projects.

The Historiotheque & the operation: #historiotheque #artoperation #newdocumentation

Knowledge systems: #refcardsproject #databasearts #quickrefs #historiomics

The sciences: #signalscience #noisefieldtheory

The seasons: #seasonsoftheheart #springtimeoflife #summeroftheheart #autumnofatonement #winterofthesoul

The long projects: #historyproject #archivesproject

Discourse & signal: #fieldsofdiscourse #fieldsofexperience #antisignal

Further terms in active use — definitions forthcoming: #historiophany #historiotype #historiome #antihistoriome #concreterealism #antiquemoderne #antisynthesis #systemenon #antisystemenon.