Atlas fallback
Readable archive of areas, nodes, paths, and lenses.
Every research note in the observatory has a stable page. Private, draft, and unpublished notes are excluded by the graph generator.
Areas
Research territories and provisional clusters
The stable area for the working relationship between Hong and AI systems as a practice-based research situation and apparatus.
stable area · 10 primary nodes Meaning NegotiationThe engine of the PhD seed: AI, artist, viewer, evidence, and public signs become meaningful through negotiated practice rather than one-way expression.
stable area · 10 primary nodes Exquisite AgentsA stable practice-based area for creature systems, rulebooks, installation experiments, and playful human-AI turn-taking.
stable area · 4 primary nodes Co-Audience / Public ProcessA provisional cluster for public interpretation, exhibition response, and audience participation that may become a stable area when evidence supports it.
provisional cluster · 5 primary nodesSeed nodes
Public scaffold set
A reframed node: AI has medium-specific affordances, but the PhD claim is stronger than “AI is a medium.”
2026-06-10 / growing / needs-confirmation / public Co-creation definitions breakdownA public synthesis note for distinguishing augmentation, collaboration, co-authorship, and co-audience claims.
2026-06-12 / stable / public-ready / public ARIA as collaborator, not toolA public-safe reflection on the shift from using ARIA as an assistant toward treating the collaboration as part of the PhD fieldsite.
2026-06-16 / growing / needs-confirmation / public Prompting as negotiationPrompts as negotiated proposals, refusals, corrections, constraints, and asymmetries rather than one-way commands.
2026-06-17 / growing / public-ready / public “the relationship shaping the very apparatus that records it”The apparatus node for the seed: the Hong/ARIA relationship shapes the capture, memory, evidence, and interface systems that record it.
2026-06-18 / seed / public-ready / public Hallucination as material affordanceA cautious note about treating model misalignment as design material without normalizing false evidence.
2026-06-19 / seed / needs-confirmation / public Multimodal sketchbookA seed note for comparing sketches, generated images, written prompts, and design annotations as one material chain.
2026-06-20 / seed / needs-confirmation / public Evidence protocol for public notesA publishing protocol for showing evidence structure while excluding private transcripts, names, and raw source material.
2026-06-21 / stable / public-ready / public Research through Design cycle 01A method note that frames the first design cycle as making, reflecting, testing, and revising the research claim.
2026-06-25 / stable / public-ready / public Prototype failure logA public-safe failure log that treats broken prototypes as evidence of constraints and not just discarded work.
2026-06-28 / seed / needs-confirmation / public Co-audience first notesA seed reflection on AI and public viewers as part of a shared meaning-making situation.
2026-07-03 / growing / needs-confirmation / public Chart 02 seed revisionThe accepted seed revision that turns the Fable review report into implementation decisions for the PhD website.
2026-07-04 / seed / public-ready / public Labelled redacted presenceA privacy pattern approved in Chart 02: show that evidence exists, label why it is redacted, and avoid raw private exposure.
2026-07-04 / seed / needs-redaction / redacted Latent Intersection and the artist/AI/viewer triadA placeholder node for Latent Intersection as a bridge from AI co-creation into viewer interpretation without over-theorizing Hong's wording.
2026-07-04 / seed / needs-confirmation / public Meaning as negotiated signThe theory node that gives Meaning Negotiation its name: meanings are produced through inference, negotiation, and asymmetries of power.
2026-07-04 / seed / theory-anchor / public Networked agency and complexismA placeholder node for Hong's stronger claim that AI is an agent in a networked paradigm of complexism, not merely a medium.
2026-07-04 / seed / needs-confirmation / public Storm: process social ontologyA slim theory node grounding the seed's process-social-ontology claim without turning the public site into a glossary swamp.
2026-07-04 / seed / theory-anchor / public Voluntary and involuntary signsThe public wording node replacing tentative tentional/intentional language with Storm's voluntary/involuntary sign frame.
2026-07-04 / seed / theory-anchor / public AI as participant-audienceA speculative note asking whether AI can operate as a responsive audience within the making process.
2026-07-05 / seed / needs-confirmation / public Exquisite Agents rulebookA public rulebook note for a turn-taking creature-making system between human and AI agents.
2026-07-14 / growing / public-ready / public Creature drawing systemA prototype note for co-created creatures, shared turns, and visible differences between human and AI moves.
2026-07-15 / growing / needs-confirmation / public Human/AI turn-takingA mechanics note for alternating authorship, interruption, correction, and shared constraint.
2026-07-16 / seed / needs-confirmation / public Exhibition installation planA planning note for turning Exquisite Agents into a public encounter with visible rules and response capture.
2026-08-01 / seed / needs-confirmation / public Gallery feedback patternsA public-safe placeholder for coded audience response patterns, without names, raw quotes, or private forms.
2026-08-12 / seed / needs-redaction / public Redacted screenshot bundleA placeholder note proving the site can publish redacted evidence summaries without exposing raw source material.
2026-08-13 / seed / needs-redaction / redacted Public stabilization of meaningA synthesis note about how public encounters help stabilize the social meaning of human-AI co-creation.
2026-08-20 / growing / needs-confirmation / public Framework diagram v1A synthesis note that maps roles, media, methods, evidence, and public stabilization into one working framework.
2026-09-01 / growing / needs-confirmation / public Method pattern libraryA seed note for recurring method patterns: negotiate, make visible, test publicly, redact, and reframe.
2026-09-05 / seed / public-ready / public Supervision question mapA readable map from supervisor/examiner questions to public objects, lenses, and evidence types.
2026-09-12 / seed / needs-confirmation / public