Building the Tesseract: The Archive Learns to Search, See, and Talk Back
Sharing this with the NET-ART and CUNY Commons community because, underneath the build, it is a teaching question: what becomes possible when […]
Building the Tesseract: What Happens When an Archive Learns to Read Itself? Part 1
Building the Tesseract: What Happens When an Archive Learns to Read Itself? Part 1 6/10/26 Over the past week I’ve been working on […]
NET-ART OS: An Experiment in Archive Discovery
NET-ART OS: An Experiment in Archive Discovery 6-5-2026 Since 2017, the NET-ART website here on the CUNY Academic Commons has grown into a […]
NET-ART Required Readings – Full Update
Required Reading and Resource Familiarity Updated June 5th 2026 – (the page itself is here) Welcome back to yet another major update to the […]
The Ultimate Free Creative Technology Stack (2026 Edition)
The Ultimate Free Creative Technology Stack (2026 Edition) Welcome back creators, artists, students, designers, educators, and digital […]
RSMAD Reconstruction Series No. 1
RSMAD Reconstruction Series No. 1 – Reconstructed Spatial Archive: 2013–2026 Originally created in my studio environment in 2013, these l […]
Building a Semantic AI Archive System for a 20-Year WordPress Art Archive
AREMES HQ, Brooklyn, May 25th 2026 Today I spent nearly an entire day inside Terminal on my macOS building an experimental semantic archive […]
NET-ART Suggested Syllabus 2026 Revision
A syllabus written in 2017 cannot describe a practice in 2026. The web reads itself now. AI sits in the studio. Agents move through the network […]
How Peekable Got Built
It started with a simple question: where are all my Adobe Dimension files? I have been making work digitally for over three decades, across a […]
Open Met Museum: Agent-Mediated Cultural Remixing in One Afternoon
It started with a simple question. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a public API on GitHub, and in February of 2026 the Met shared that they […]
VR Studio Transformation
Expanding Painting into Mixed Reality Environments Over the past several days I have been transforming my studio into a growing mixed reality […]
Dear colleagues,
Please join us in May for Manifold Drop-In Office hours!
Manifold Drop-In Office Hours Whether you’re starting a new digital project, need expert guidance to overcome roadblocks in an existing project, or simply want to ask a question, our CUNY Manifold Team will be on hand to provide support and answer your qu…[Read more]
Dear Colleagues,
Curious about incorporating archival materials into your teaching practice?
Join us for our last Manifold Community event of the year exploring Daniel Simidor: A New York Haitian Revolutionary— a Manifold digital project that centers the life and work of community activist, educator, and longtime archivist Daniel Simidor. D…[Read more]
AREMES Living Canvas: When an AI Agent Becomes the Artist
Published: April 4, 2026 Category: AREMES / Art & Technology There is a page live right now at a […]
“Let’s Archive It!” Three CUNY Archivists on What it Means to Steward Collections
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Graduate Center, Room 9206 with hybrid option (RSVP for Zoom link here).
Doing archival research? Teaching with archives? Creating digital archives? Come hear from three CUNY archivists about the exciting archi…[Read more]
Chris! Good to hear from you. Factoring taste into discovery is exactly the bullseye for this project. And a challenge! In short, I dont know yet, but by structuring the archive with JSON LD and that catalog […]
Fascinating stuff Ryan! As you’re creating this machine-readable layer, what are your thoughts on factoring taste (as in what kind of art is interesting or not) into the discovery process? Do you expect people to […]
My AI Agent Bought My Own Digital Product – Here's What That Actually Means
On March 25, 2026, something quietly historic happened on my website ryanseslow.com I wanted to share with my CUNY / Commons community. I am […]
From Archive to Agent: Making Creative Work Machine-Readable and AI-Accessible
From Archive to Agent: Making Creative Work Machine-Readable and AI-Accessible Over the past several days, I have been working on transforming […]
Hello everyone,
Please join us tomorrow at the GC!
Manifold Community Event
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 5th floor, Room 5307
At the advent of the centennial of Fire!!: A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists—the trailblazing 1926 magazine created by a new generation of Black art…[Read more]
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