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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
6 days ago3 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
The Greatest Creative Shift You’re Not Being Told About
1883 - The field leaves traces, even when you think nothing is happening. This is what frequency encodes. Frequencies, Signal Tuning,...
Jesse Jacques
May 195 min read
Behind the Work: Tuning Form to Frequency
Image created by me, Jesse Jacques, May 2025 Photographed on Cinestill 800T film on medium format. One expression of a signal tuned...
Jesse Jacques
May 55 min read
When Your Signal Arrives Before They’re Ready
David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (Falling Buffalos), 1988–89 Echoes arrive in form before they arrive in understanding. ✦ Transmissions for...
Jesse Jacques
Apr 143 min read
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