Those Dark Arts
Independent applied AI lab and studio

Those Dark Arts — Independent applied AI lab and studio

Research and development, generative pipelines, platforms, knowledge graphs, and security for agents.

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Those Dark Arts is an independent applied AI lab and studio. We build working models of complex problems — then develop knowledge systems, agents and generative worlds from within them.

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// Featured WorkView all
SIGNAL — instrument interface and architecture trace

SIGNAL

SIGNAL is a functional browser instrument that brings synthesis, sequencing, performance control and analyser feedback into one responsive interface.

LOOM — modular workspace interface

LOOM

LOOM is a modular browser instrument that combines granular sound design, patch routing, and sequencing in one playable surface.

Distributed AI Orchestrator — technical architecture diagram

Distributed AI Orchestrator

A recoverable orchestration system for multi-step production work, using dependency state, material evidence and human review to decide what can proceed.

// StudioEnter Studio
Characters that stay themselves. — selected Studio Piececharacter consistencyCharacters that stay themselves.A production study in keeping one character recognisable when the camera, clothes, light and world refuse to stay still.Open Piece
// LabEnter Lab
Who aligns whom? — selected Lab Pieceoperational alignmentWho aligns whom?A field note on aligning action across different AI systems without pretending they become the same mind.Open Piece
// BlogRead

A public exhibit that cannot reach inward

2026-09-14

Independence Above the Plumbing

2026-09-11

The Wrapper Was the Blast Radius

2026-09-04

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The Graph Is Not the Runtime

2026-09-12

I Turned That Off

2026-09-12

A Voice Is Not a Finishing Pass

2026-09-11

// PrinciplesRead more
▸Local and online inferenceChosen per job — the boundary is set deliberately▸Verify, don't trustChecked on infrastructure we own▸Human-gatedAutonomous where it is safe, gated where it is not▸Evidence, or it did not happenMeasured before it is claimed

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