A cabinet of cultural artefacts gathered from the margins of artificial intelligence — the theories, myths, forgotten texts, strange diagrams and buried histories that accompanied the emergence of machine thought. They all illuminate something about AI that its official history would rather leave in shadow...
Each entry is a self-contained exploration: an object to examine, rotate, and think with.
Seven visions from Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872) — the first text in history to imagine machines evolving consciousness and enslaving humanity. A prophecy written before electricity reached most homes, now illuminated by the age it foretold.
Enter the exhibitAn interactive diagram of the Numogram — the cybernetic-occult system developed by Nick Land and the CCRU, mapping ten zones, forty-five gates, and the demonic currents that the group theorised as flowing through the architecture of decimal notation.
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