Art of FACELESS
Use the Machine, Don’t Marry It
All money is filthy. The question is not whether we touch it, but whether we let it rewire our process, our time, and our voice.
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The Hollow Circuit
Characters of The Hollow Circuit: The Sporebringer
Lioren, once a brilliant bio-architect, was born with skin of deep black pigmentation, a hue revered within her community as sacred and divine.
Poetry
A Stillness in the Grain
A collection of poems and hand-developed black and white photographs—quiet moments taken from beneath the surface of Cardiff. Nothing polished. Nothing curated for likes. Just fragments. Some barely held together.
Music
The Hollow Circuit TV goes viral
This isn’t influencer culture. It’s resistance through rhythm — independent, faceless, and fiercely alive.
Art of FACELESS
The Death of The Open Web
“For creators” ends as “for shareholders.” Paywalls, throttles, and polite restrictions. The open sprawl replaced by a stack of subscription silos. A pay-to-breathe internet.
Music
Exploring Sentience: The story Behind "Smart Breakup"
If the machine ever starts to love you, how long before it learns to resent you?
Music
TRANSMISSION: DEPTHS OF RESONANCE
“Sound remembers what the sea forgets.” — Fragment recovered from The Resonance Keepers of Crete archive 0:00 /0:06 1× 001 // ORIGIN Depths of Resonance began as a short story — a whisper of myth and signal buried inside the Aegean. The story imagined an underwater civilisation that recorded memory not
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Poetry
Dark Kittens [an analysis]
Analysis of the poem "Dark Kittens" "Dark Kittens" is a poignant and subversive poem that employs the metaphor of kittens to critique the commodification of emotions, the enforcement of toxic positivity, and the suppression of authentic grief and wildness in contemporary society. The title itself juxtaposes
Art is for everyone
Stop Saying “Working Class in the Arts”
Every few months, another editorial lands (today's was from The Guardian). Another lament about the “working class and the arts.” Another sermon from London about how Manchester, or some other city, will “lead the way.” And every time, the same lazy phrase gets wheeled out: working class. Let’
Multimedia Poetry
Dark Kittens: Spoken Word in Static
The spoken-word multimedia project Dark Kittens by Awen Null — presented as a widescreen subtitled video with sonic composition by Lloyd MSUX — stands at the intersection of literature, sound art, and moving image. At first glance, the work may seem like a straightforward reading, a poet’s voice laid over a
MyFaceBelongsTo.Me
The Imperative of the Faceless: Anonymity, Biometrics, and Free Expression in 2025
In 2025, the stakes for anonymity have never been higher. As biometric systems, pervasive facial recognition, and AI-driven image synthesis proliferate, the ability of individuals—especially creatives, dissenters, and marginal voices—to control their own likeness becomes a frontline battleground. The loss of that control is not a mere privacy
Censorship
The Slippery Slope of Safety: Why the UK's Online Safety Act Is More Than a Porn Law
If platforms must proactively block content that might be harmful to some users, the default will be to sanitise everything.