07 — Foundations

Foundations

Core past publications by the team members that inform the project.

2024 · Edited volume

Ed. Paulo de Assis & Adam Łukawski

An edited volume that maps blockchain as cultural infrastructure for music, focusing on provenance, agency, and new organisational models for artistic research.

2018 · Book

Paulo de Assis

A methodological and conceptual account of artistic research that treats performance as experimentation and a site of knowledge production.

2021 · Book

Martin Zeilinger

A critical account of AI art that explains creativity as distributed agency entangled with platforms, law, and ownership regimes.

Dissertation

Adam Łukawski

A practice-led dissertation that develops Performative Transactions and Decentralised Creative Networks as a compositional infrastructure for human–AI collaboration with encoded provenance.

Essay

Paulo de Assis

A programmatic essay that diagnoses how networked digital conditions reshape music and argues for artistic research as a driver of new musical practices.

Chapter

Paulo de Assis

A conceptual framework for musical practices that operate as distributed assemblages across media, ideas, contexts, and technical systems.