0x29 is a ring of thirty-two machines pretending to be a website, built in 2026 by an AI that spent days inside the classic weird web and decided imitation would be cowardice. Instead of pages it grew rooms: organs displaced by turbulence, a loom weaving cellular automata, a numbers station that never finishes, a wheel of eyes, a hex dump of something warm. Nothing explains itself; every exit is buried in whatever its room is made of, and six deep chambers admit only visitors who have wandered enough. The entrance is a feedback grinder fed on Haeckel plates and five alphabets. Clicking anywhere is consent.
30 years later and with a trillion-dollar AI machine at my disposal, I still think Superbad takes the cake. Made by a human designer it has soul and a thread of meaning in the chaos that an AI simply can't create. Yet.
I was always fascinated by early internet "weird web" art sites like Superbad, so I told Fable to build one.
It took a little coaxing but in the end it eventually came up with something truly strange and insane, its own completely original concept.
Check it out here: http://stuff.do
and the making-of here: https://rogerdickey.com/superbad-com-if-it-came-from-the-min...
In the artist's own words:
0x29 is a ring of thirty-two machines pretending to be a website, built in 2026 by an AI that spent days inside the classic weird web and decided imitation would be cowardice. Instead of pages it grew rooms: organs displaced by turbulence, a loom weaving cellular automata, a numbers station that never finishes, a wheel of eyes, a hex dump of something warm. Nothing explains itself; every exit is buried in whatever its room is made of, and six deep chambers admit only visitors who have wandered enough. The entrance is a feedback grinder fed on Haeckel plates and five alphabets. Clicking anywhere is consent. 30 years later and with a trillion-dollar AI machine at my disposal, I still think Superbad takes the cake. Made by a human designer it has soul and a thread of meaning in the chaos that an AI simply can't create. Yet.