# emptyname

> emptyname - a free, egoless body of generative works and essays. 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

## Manifesto (the seed-text)

- [Generative NFT Artist Manifesto](https://emptyname.org/): A nine-point manifesto: generative NFT art is how digital art attains existence - code as notation, minting as ego-removal, copyright abandoned.

## Works & essays
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.


## 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/