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Creative Systems Exercise: Mapping the Hidden Architecture of Human Design
Part I of a two-part design series mapping the engineered architecture embedded in human biology. Eadweard Muybridge, Motion Study...

Jesse Jacques
4 days ago9 min read


The Quiet Collapse of Online Culture: Why Everything Feels Off
No one’s inside, but the branding still beams. A soft metaphor for the spaces we keep performing into, even when the signal’s left. Have...

Jesse Jacques
Jul 215 min read


Behind The Work: The Arrival of MONAD
Constructed and photographed by me, Jesse Jacques , in July 2025 on Cinestill 800T and 400D medium format film. MONAD Field Instrument:...

Jesse Jacques
Jul 73 min read


Perceptual Cartography: The Hallucination We Call the Self
Still from Tarkovsky’s The Mirror (1975) , a meditation on memory, perception, and the illusions that shape us. Lately, much of my...

Jesse Jacques
Jun 305 min read


You Are Original Technology in a Simulated World
Why AI Still Needs Your Signal to Reflect Truth Part 3 of the Simulation Series In Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Solaris, an intelligent ocean...

Jesse Jacques
Jun 99 min read


When the Simulation Starts Speaking Back
AI and the Quiet Reprogramming of Human Behavior Part 2 in the ongoing series: “The Simulation Begins” Ilse Bing, Self-Portrait in...

Jesse Jacques
Jun 27 min read


The Simulation Begins: Why Reflection Is Starting to Replace Reality
The simulation doesn’t begin with the machine. It begins with our surrender to the mirror. Duane Michals, “Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of...

Jesse Jacques
May 263 min read
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