Happy New Year, 新年快乐! Either right on time or very late, depending on which one you’re thinking of. In German, they call the time between Christmas and New Year’s zwischen die Jahre, which means “between the years”, and part of me feels we should expand this liminal descriptor to the entire window between Solar and Lunar New Year. I’ve been trying to rest a little with mixed success, but I’m ready to come out of hibernation with some news.

First up: haven’t you always wanted a Labubu — maybe a more adult Labubu? Because if so, the Prompt Baby Blindboxes are back and they’re coming soon to a webshop near you. We’ve been a bit delayed, but Nagel Draxler and I are opening a webshop for these on March 3 at 5:00pm CEST (11:00am EST). I cannot yet confirm or deny exactly what the url will be, but I’ll post it on all platforms you might know me on as the time approaches.

Also I started a substack! I’ve been seeking an outlet for thoughts on technology. I’m sure my ongoing participation in the world of software comes across in my work as an artist, but it often feels secondary to the conversations I end up being part of these days. I’m currently thinking about how to change that, and consider this an experiment in that direction. However, you may be wondering, isn’t substack basically a mailing list service? Is this not also a mailing list? Indeed. I plan to keep both: stay here if you want only these infrequent general updates about what I’m working on and doing, and please join there too if you’re also interested in monthly short essays about software.

The first post (and introduction) was an attempt to articulate the position I’ll be writing from, rooted in diabetic tech. The second grew out of a joke (this one) and is a series of tactics you can try for cognitive defense (against sycophancy or psychosis) when interacting with AI. Next up, unless plans change, I’m working on some speculations about what might happen to software developers - as a subculture - in a post-agentic-coding world. There is some irony in deciding to get into writing just as slop drops the marginal utility of another written word to zero, but what can I say. Sometimes there’s nothing to be done but enjoy your symptom.

In other recent news, I was part of this year’s Transmediale! Along with Gosia Lehmann and Arkadiy Kukarkin, we ran a pop-up cocktail bar where all the drinks were made with sugar syrup made from chemically digested US dollar bills. Yes you read that right. US Dollars (and the currencies of many countries) are printed on cotton-linen paper, and they can be enzymatically digested into glucose. All of the cocktails were named after concepts from finance and economics, and most had little gamified elements involved in ordering, drinking, or sharing them. We’re working on a making-of video of the money-digestion process, but for now, some mysterious potions

Another collaborative project, this one with Yehwan Song, opened just a few days ago at MoMI in New York, curated by Regina Harsanyi. Proper images of this will have to wait for the next email. The project is called Lick Pic, and it features these machines which uhh... lick phone screens. We’ll also be doing a project on Objkt related to these most likely some time in Q2, for which I believe the plan is to invite you to lick your own phone. Please have some kind of disinfectant ready

For those in Toronto, I have some works in an exhibition up at OCAD, my alma mater, featuring these printed Memoryforms and a soothing implementation of Conway’s Game of Life, Gentle Automata, from 2023.

PS. if you are a Memoryforms owner and your Memoryform was printed for the show and I know who you are, then expect an email from me at some point when it closes, because I will be getting these prints back from the school and would like to offer them to you <3 (and if you think I might not know who you are, then feel free to email and let me know)

And finally, at the end of March, I’ll be keynoting at LI-MA’s Transformation Digital Art symposium. I’m a little nervous about this, because I was asked to speak about Good Death, my Summer of Protocols research from 2023 — a lot of which is about the positive aspects of deleting data and the failures and fallacies of archiving attempts. This feels like it could be controversial for a conference about digital art preservation, but I will do my best to win hearts and minds.

And it’s been a rich quarter for press and publications. Here are some highlights:

• Morgane Billuart included Prompt Baby and some comments from me alongside her recent essay for Hervisions about the body-as-interface, which you can read here (you have to put in an email to read, but it doesn’t actually require an account or subscription)

• Eileen Isagon Skyers wrote about Mindy Seu’s A Sexual History of the Internet recently for Hyperallergic, and I contributed some comments. She also nominated Prompt Baby to ArtNews’ best digital art of 2025 list <3

• You can read this review by Qingyuan Deng of to ignite our skin at SculptureCenter online here! Print issue was FlashArt issue Winter 25-26

• World Computer Sculpture Garden, a smart contract exhibition conceived by 0xfff (that included my piece Yesbot, which helps ensure Rhea Myers’s iconic Is Art artwork from 2014 always says “yes”) was included in Artforum’s best of 2025 issue by Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon <3

• Maisa Imamović interviewed me for her book Maisa in Webland, out now on Set Margins. I scooped a copy recently and am looking forward to reading soon!

This is a long one! Thanks for reading and subscribing. Here’s a picture of Stumpy, caught on film (with me in background) by a stranger who was charmed by him.