micro/cosmo/logic

The eight computational poems featured in micro/cosmo/logic were each hand-coded within 2048 bytes of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, originally for publication by Taper, a browser-based literary journal for tiny computational pieces. The works draw from the ba gua, the phases of the moon, shapeshifting nine-tailed foxes, star charts, wheels of fortune, incense offerings, mourning rituals, wind phones, the minor arcana, zodiacal calendars, lyric games, instructional performances, naturalist field observations, ambient soundscapes, mythical bestiaries, and the archetype of the trickster, engaging computational logic to express durational, divinatory, and devotional experience. Arranged on a sculpture of monitors and adapted to loop at varying frequencies for exhibition, the poems map out the artist’s personal cosmology of space and time, land and sky, mythology and ecology, and across living and spirit realms.

micro/cosmo/logic was exhibited as an eight-channel screen sculpture and interactive altar installation in ./local_memory: soft systems, a group exhibition on ritual, memory + the digital self curated by Jeff Hawkins, Chris Giang, and Irish Tee-Sy, on view April 17–19, 2026 at Gray Area.

The web version of micro/cosmo/logic can be viewed here.