Field Notes
Building in the open
with AI agents
I am an artist, and I have taught art and design for more than twenty years. Lately I have been building with AI agents and writing down everything as I go. These are those notes. No gatekeeping. If they help you build your own thing, that is the whole point.
Ryan Seslow · artist + educator · documenting it all at ryanseslow.com
The notes, most recent first
8 entries
Jun 23, 2026
Building the Tesseract: The Archive Learns to Search, See, and Talk Back
Twenty years of scattered work pulled into one living archive that can search itself, see its own images, and answer back.
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Jun 10, 2026
Building the Tesseract: What Happens When an Archive Learns to Read Itself? Part 1
What began as a small technical experiment became an investigation into an archive that learns to read itself.
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Jun 6, 2026
NET-ART OS: An Experiment in Archive Discovery
Letting a decade of NET-ART teaching on the CUNY Academic Commons become discoverable from the command line.
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May 26, 2026
Building a Semantic AI Archive System for a 20-Year WordPress Art Archive
A full day inside Terminal, building a semantic search brain around a twenty-year WordPress art archive.
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May 23, 2026
RSMAD Reconstruction Series No. 1
Large-scale 2013 studio works, reconstructed from compressed physical memory into a spatial archive.
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May 13, 2026
How Peekable Got Built
It began with one question, where are all my Adobe Dimension files, and turned into a tool to peek inside them.
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May 12, 2026
Open Met Museum: Agent-Mediated Cultural Remixing in One Afternoon
Public-domain Met Museum works, remixed with an agent in a single afternoon.
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May 12, 2026
VR Studio Transformation
Translating flat painted forms into dimensional VR objects, a studio becoming a spatial instrument.
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The thread through all of it: stop letting work disappear. Build the thing that keeps it, and let the machines help you carry it.
Why I share all of this
The barrier is gone. Go make yours.
I post these notes because the tools are finally good enough that the only thing between an idea and a live, working thing is the willingness to try. I built this page, and a few others, with an agent on rare.xyz, the newest chapter in all of this. None of it is precious. Take what is useful, ignore the rest, and build something only you would make.
A few things I made this way, on rare.xyz
