A Broadcast from the Future: Do Not Adjust Your Memory
Somewhere between the static and the silence, a question flickered: What if
FACELESS
Preface to the AOF Provenance Protocol (APP)
Art of Faceless (AOF) was never meant to be permanent. Since 2012
Let Me Tell You About the Algorithm (Again)
I use the word “algorithm” a lot. Probably too much. It turns up in my fiction, in fragments I post online, in the footnotes of my own thinking. It's become a tic, a tell. I use it because it matters, because it governs so much. And I use it because I don’t trust it.
What Fuckery Is This?
Glitch isn’t retro. It isn’t futurist either. It’s something like post-temporal. It treats time the way cubism treated perspective: as a thing to be exploded and reassembled on its own impossible terms.
The Scroll That Screamed in Static
I’d go further. What we see here is the last gasp of Authorial Romanticism. Hargrave’s opponents believe themselves to be vessels of divinity—touched by something sacred. Hargrave, in contrast, is chaos. They reject the sacred. They say: “Make bad art. Make spam. Make weird shit.”
Dark Secrets Beneath the Hood
SYMBOL UNDER RESTRICTION — NHAC Order Δ7-C
This glyph is designated a Prohibited Semiotic Artefact under Section 14.3 of the Recursive Narrative Suppression Act.
Unauthorised reproduction, invocation, or dissemination may result in cognitive breach, semantic drift, or metadata recursion.
The Null Filament
You are invited not just to view, but to linger. Let the recursion pull you in. Let the details breathe.
Back Then, We Watermarked Everything
Somewhere along the way, we stopped watermarking. We stopped asking to be paid. We gave our creativity away in exchange for the illusion of relevance.
Now we cry foul.
STILL FACELESS. STILL HERE.
When we founded Art of FACELESS back in 2012, we did it with intention. To explore identity through absence. To create a space where artists, writers, and activists could speak without being tracked, judged, or flattened into a data point.
The Hollow Circuit Glyph by Seren
The Hollow Circuit now bears its glyph—etched by Amanita from www.artoffaceless.com (yes, that Art of FACELESS), whose hands carry both decay and rebirth in every carved line.
The Semi-Colon Speaks
(Rarely But With Feeling)
THE SEMI-COLON SPEAKS
(RARELY, BUT WITH FEELING)
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From Transparency to Transmission: Santorini 1979 / Island Life #1 (2025)
This new version — Island Life #1 — is not simply about cleaning up an old photo. It’s about layering time.