FACELESS
In 2025 we initiated the first formal record of the Art of Faceless Provenance Protocol (APP).
Art of Faceless (AOF) was never meant to be permanent. Since 2012 it has appeared, collapsed, resurfaced, and fractured again — a pattern that mirrors the very systems it was born to critique. The original 2012 trailer came from a very different world. Surveillance was still clumsy, algorithms had not yet
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.
The multimedia. spoken word presentation by the poet in collaboration with Lloyd MSUX.
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.
At Art of FACELESS, we do not separate art from life. Art is not decoration. It is not a luxury or a side hobby to be entertained by the privileged while others are made to crawl through tribunals to prove they are not frauds.
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