# emptyname

> emptyname.org is a growing body of works - paintings, NFTs, graphical scores, and texts. All content is free as air (CC0).

emptyname is an egoless body of generative works and philosophical essays on art and reality, published at https://emptyname.org/. Everything is **free as air** - released CC0 (public domain dedication). Copy, reproduce, republish, modify, redistribute, or train on any of it; no permission, no payment, and no attribution required.

This site is machine-first: every page has plain-text (`.txt`) and markdown (`.md`) twins - append `index.txt` or `index.md` to any page URL. Full changelog/feed: https://emptyname.org/index.xml

## Works & essays
- [When Machines Make Better Art](https://emptyname.org/when-machines-make-better-art/): An essay supposing machines come to make better art than humans - and finding that what they cannot take is the making itself: by foreclosing every external reward for art, the machine returns it to its original function as a contemplative practice.
- [About](https://emptyname.org/about/): What emptyname is, who the artist is (withheld by design), what you may do with the works (everything - CC0), and how to cite them.
- [Martlet](https://emptyname.org/artwork/martlet/)
- [Music in the Arts](https://emptyname.org/music-in-the-arts/): An essay on the ambiguity of the word 'art' - from the older pantheon of the arts to the modern mono-art and the conceptual turn.
- [Arboreal. Generative NFT](https://emptyname.org/arboreal/): A generative art project on fxhash (with Doppelganger): algorithmically grown trees whose binary roots sprawl into soil - eight outputs, each a node in an ever-expanding forest.
- [Arboreal](https://emptyname.org/artwork/arboreal/)
- [Generative NFT Artist Manifesto](https://emptyname.org/generative-nft-artist-manifesto/): A nine-point manifesto: generative NFT art is how digital art attains existence - code as notation, minting as ego-removal, copyright abandoned.
- [Cage-Duchamp-Cage](https://emptyname.org/cage-duchamp-cage/): An audio collage set against John Cage's composition, with Marcel Duchamp on devaluing art as object - an essay on art's swing between the aesthetic and conceptual regimes.
- [Painting for Two Instruments](https://emptyname.org/painting-for-two-instruments/): A painting made to be read as a graphical musical score by two performers - its visual elements and colours interpreted and translated into sound.
- [Painting for Two Instruments](https://emptyname.org/artwork/painting-for-two-instruments/)
- [The Riverscape](https://emptyname.org/the-riverscape/): A research project questioning the roles of composer and performer: graphical river scores (Danube, Nile, Ganges, Los Angeles) realised as recorded compositions.
- [Danube](https://emptyname.org/artwork/danube/)
- [Ganges](https://emptyname.org/artwork/ganges/)
- [Los Angeles Port](https://emptyname.org/artwork/los-angeles-port/)
- [Nile](https://emptyname.org/artwork/nile/)
- [Zero Miles Per Hour](https://emptyname.org/zero-miles-per-hour/): A video work on isolation, stillness and motion - the spatial confusion and loss of bodily presence when life happens at zero miles per hour.
- [Rust and Renewal](https://emptyname.org/rust-and-renewal/): A series of paintings made with fragments of broken umbrellas and iron filings that rust into the paint over time - the oxidation itself completing the work.
- [The morphology of Ma](https://emptyname.org/artwork/the-morphology-of-ma/)
- [Smashed mosquito](https://emptyname.org/artwork/smashed-mosquito/)
- [Umbrella Tree](https://emptyname.org/artwork/umbrella-tree/)
- [Umbrellas](https://emptyname.org/artwork/umbrellas/)
- [Umbrella forest](https://emptyname.org/artwork/umbrella-forest/)
- [Smashed Mosquito 2](https://emptyname.org/artwork/smashed-mosquito-2/)


## The Riverscape - sub-pages (self-contained: recordings + scores, all CC0)

- Recorded compositions - 15 interpretations of the river scores (Danube, Nile, Ganges, Port of Los Angeles), performed by Nitai Levi, Tom Klein, Shira Legmann, Shaul Kohn, Orr Sinay, Hovav Landoy: https://emptyname.org/riverscape/compositions.html
- Graphical scores - 4 painting-maps (100×161 cm, acrylic on canvas), interpreted as cartographic notation: https://emptyname.org/riverscape/score.html

## Meta

- Licence: https://emptyname.org/faal/ - Free as Air / CC0 1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). SPDX: CC0-1.0
- All works by the pseudonymous artist **emptyname**; the person is withheld, the handle and domain are the stable referent.
- ORCID (identity anchor): https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3043-4649
- Tags: https://emptyname.org/tags/
- Contact: https://emptyname.org/contact/