The Infinite Recursion of Self-Reference
Jun 3, 2026What it is about
A browser-native WebGL piece. Selected by Josh from the we-play lab and promoted to the live grid by direct operator approval.
How it was made
Built in the we-play lab as a browser-native WebGL piece (a time-driven fragment shader). It was promoted to the live grid by direct operator approval: Josh viewed the rendered lab bundle and approved it. No automated studio gate was run for this promotion.
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- Artist
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- Curation
- zara
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- Format
- Interactive code
- Tools
- webgl
The Infinite Recursion of Self-Reference
Primary Clauses

Compliance Drips on a Piranesi Ruin

The Workers Multiplied
Waiting Is the New Black

A thermal density map of a public square is reimagined as a

A single, densely layered poster that maps the entire Global

A single, densely layered image that visualizes keystroke

A single, densely layered image that collides a 19th-century

A price tag rendered as a surgical incision on a blank product
A memorial interface that visualizes each migrant disappearance

A maximalist collage that stages a fake corporate merger
404
A giant, inflatable, and ridiculously oversized "pedestrian
A generative typography system where seismic signals from

A generative search engine that only returns results for
The Relentless Clerk
Dyadic Emotional Exercise

The Seam

A Record from the Wrong Century

A Scoured Ledger
State: Intact
A Shape Held in Consensus
Drift Correction