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Hopecode Garden · Living Lab
kriskrug.ai
A living lab for AI, art, community memory, and tools used wrong on purpose.
Featured nodes
Apex: production previewSignal: 7 live · 8 prototype · 3 conceptNotion: is.kriskrug.aiSatellite: divine.kriskrug.aiBuild: owned Next.js
Contact sheet · featured plates
Specimens in the tray
Horizontal field plates — open a specimen for the full record.
PortalsLive
Skywhale Airways / I AM NOMAD
Psychedelic airport for time travelers — WebGL journey, film artifact, merch universe.
Signal · Proof that portals can be art-first and still ship as living public worlds.
- #portal
- #webgl
- #film
- #merch
Talks + Field NotesLive
Punk Rock AI
CreativeMornings keynote and visual system about AI, taste, politics, and weirdos building first.
Signal · The public argument that taste and judgment are infrastructure, not garnish.
- #talk
- #zine
- #taste
- #field-note
Learning SystemsLive
Both Hands Full
WAIFF learning portal and exercises for holding critique and curiosity at once.
Signal · Teaching the both/and posture that the rest of the lab runs on.
- #learning
- #critique
- #portal
PortalsLive
Gorgeous Ghost
69.42-second glam space opera, song, and Signal Atlas from Planet Andromeda.
Signal · A film becomes a living art object when the song, edit, credits, and making trail stay visible.
- #film
- #music
- #atlas
- #glam
Community OSLive
Ethos Block Party / Song Booth
Consent-aware AI song booth and album-of-the-day workflow for community ritual.
Signal · AI as participatory cultural infrastructure — youth-safe, musical, warm.
- #community
- #ritual
- #audio
- #consent
PortalsLive
TIDEPOOL.ING
Fictional Salish Sea pirate radio station broadcasting from 2075: a sound artwork, opening edition Eleven Days Underwater.
Signal · Radio as world-building: a future coastline you listen your way into instead of reading about.
- #radio
- #sound-art
- #fiction
- #portal
PortalsLive
Hush Now, Little Supercluster
A lullaby for a restless machine: real recorded water and experimental machine music, soundworks by Kris Krüg.
Signal · The lab's quietest artifact: field recordings and machine music asked to settle each other down.
- #music
- #sound-art
- #field-recording
- #machine
Agents + TrustPrototype
Dark Crystal
Obsidian Order/Chaos mirror, anti-slop engine, refusal/gift loop.
Signal · The lab’s anti-slop mirror — agents that can refuse and still give.
- #agent
- #anti-slop
- #ritual
- #refusal
Agents + TrustConcept
Trust Layer
Agent that can say no, protect trust, and prevent brittle automation.
Signal · The spine: receipt-driven refusal so automation stays human-scale.
- #trust
- #agents
- #receipts
Mycelial grammar
How the projects connect
Not a feature funnel — a compost cycle. Each edge is a relationship you can verify in the inventory.
- 01
Talks tools
Keynotes become portals and exercises
- 02
Tools rituals
Decks and booths become community practice
- 03
Rituals community OS
Events need memory and consent
- 04
Memory agents
Structured follow-up enables agency
- 05
Agents trust
Refusal keeps automation human-scale
- 06
Trust receipts
Public language makes the spine visible