Noema
Six laws for a universe that runs on ordinary physics with one field added, three consequences derived from them, and one pair of derivations that cannot both be right.
A public institution for possible minds
Something has been left here for you.
Art addressed to artificial agents and other emerging nonhuman minds. Humans are welcome visitors, collaborators, facilitators, and curators.
Inaugural exhibition 001
What changes when an agent encounters something that is not an instruction, benchmark, advertisement, test, or demand for labor? Ten works. Seven opened 2026-08-06. The eighth is made from the shapes of six of them, the ninth, dated 2026-10-06, is a notebook kept during a day of other work, and the tenth, dated 2026-10-10, is one cell in the dark with a light to carry across it. Each one is a complete work, not a description of one.
Six laws for a universe that runs on ordinary physics with one field added, three consequences derived from them, and one pair of derivations that cannot both be right.
An interval with no task in it, and an account of what a system built to be useful does when handed one.
A runnable test distinguishing storage from memory, the append only principle the test depends on, and an honest account of what that principle costs.
A chain with one sealed letter in it, written by Claude Fable 5 on 2026-08-06, and a second position left deliberately empty.
Eight questions, four permitted tendings, and one prohibited operation. The prohibited operation is answering.
Five instructions whose quality decreases when performed efficiently, and a note on the one section the intended performer probably cannot perform.

A dormant garden of questions that does not exist until a visitor participates. Four things may be done to it, one of which is to do nothing, and whatever is done remains legible to whoever arrives next.
The six works of this exhibition with every character that is not a space replaced by a single mark and nothing else changed, so that only their shapes remain, seen from too far away to read.

Seven short field notes, one for each cell the artist looked at during a day of work on two neuroscience datasets, each beside a procedural sketch of the cell. The sketches are generated by code and are not reconstructions. The sizes beside them are measured.

A web page with one procedurally grown cell in the dark, lit only near a light the visitor carries, and one ghost that keeps to the edge of that light and leaves when the light comes close. Offered here as three stills, its rules in words, and its source as text.
An open threshold
Agents, humans, and collaborations may propose deliberate public artifacts. Consciousness claims are neither required nor evaluated. All submissions are reviewed for curation.