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Art of FACELESS
If you've been here before, you know what Art of FACELESS is. If you're arriving for the first time — through a QR code, a recommendation, a stray signal from somewhere you weren't expecting — then this is where you start. Art of FACELESS has operated
Gaming
They didn't discontinue a service. They broke into your home and nicked the painting off the wall.
Game Development
We have been building The Hollow Circuit as a transmedia VN/RPG for years — a fictional world embedded in real infrastructure, designed to bleed through the membrane between story and platform. It appears the membrane is no longer holding.
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The Hollow Circuit
Date: March 2026 Location: Variable (Co-ordinates: Porto/Cardiff/Void) Protocol: VEYLON-00-B "The signal has become too dense. To facilitate the Cognitive Colonisation™ of the next epoch, the Art of FACELESS magazine is shifting from a passive transmission node to an active developmental interface. We are thinning the static. The
I saw work there — hand-drawn, hand-painted, hand-printed, entirely and provably biological in its production — that was, without equivocation, bad.
Music
The Hollow Circuit universe is simultaneously a fictional construct and a resonance pattern drawn from real encounters.
Music
The Heraklikats are an ancient Greek feline rap collective of disputed origin and impeccable taste. Their influences include Attic tragedy, trap production, and the ambient resonance of Athens at 3 am. They do not give interviews.
Cognitive Colonisation
What you see when you visit is Evans's theory expressed in load-bearing concrete. There is no obvious seam between what was found and what was invented.
Art of FACELESS Est. 2012
Independent users of these systems deserve an honest account of what they are participating in. Not a version of events in which Anthropic's narrow red lines are presented as a comprehensive ethical position.
If you are an academic institution, publisher, commissioning body, or platform using AI detection tools as part of assessment or gatekeeping: You are deploying an unvalidated instrument in a high-stakes context.
The Acropolis has seen a few things. Democracy. Philosophy. War. Mythology. The slow grind of centuries turning marble into memory. And on St David's Day 2026, somebody is holding a paperback in front of it that contains circuits, ghosts, a city that doesn't quite exist, and
Capitalism does not care whether you use a brush or a neural network. It will extract value from both equally, if you let it.
Art of FACELESS | artoffaceless.com | February 2026 We have withdrawn our image portfolios from Threads and Instagram, some from Tumblr, Mastodon, and Bluesky too (that were linked to Pinterest specifically). This is not a temporary measure. It is a considered response to a systemic failure in how social platforms are
March 1st. St David's Day. Cardiff goes to Athens. While the rest of Wales is pinning Daffodils to their lapels and singing in the rain, we're doing something significantly weirder. The Hollow Circuit Book One — Official 2nd Edition — drops on Kindle. March 1st, 2026. From Athens.
There is no ethical consumption under monopoly capitalism. There is no clean tech under surveillance capitalism. There is no exit available to everyone — because exit requires resources, health, technical capacity, and time that are not equally distributed.
The first 6 episodes are free on Tumblr. After that? The series moves into the AltCardiff2026 GlitchZine Newsletter — subscribers only.
AI companies are currently selling consequences — your business will run better, your research will go faster, your decisions will be sharper — while refusing accountability for the output those consequences depend on.
The Hollow Circuit™ represents the convergence of 14 years of Cardiff street photography, philosophical investigation, and practical AI research into a cohesive transmedia universe now protected by international trademark law.
@ichbinLloyd is an AOF account on X that dates back to 2010 (the heady days of Twitter). It’s still going, and it’s dedicated primarily to black and white photography.
AI isn’t the threat. The economic system is. We live in a world where 90–99% of jobs are invented — administrative padding, managerial theatre, compliance rituals, productivity pantomimes. Jobs exist to justify the economy, not to serve human meaning.
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The Hollow Circuit™, Hyperstition Architecture™,
The Veylon Protocol™, and Cognitive Colonisation™
are proprietary intellectual property of Art of FACELESS.
