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The book is out — and now it’s online. cyberneticsociety.floriankuhlmann.com is a new standalone website for The Cybernetic Society, bringing the text, the works, and a running commentary together in one place. The site presents the full theoretical framework: a society built on feedback, signals, and the permanent recalculation of reality through mediated probabilities. A […]
The cybernetic society and metamodernism are not parallel phenomena. One is the material ground of the other. Second-order cybernetics is the connecting principle. This is the working thesis that emerged from a recent conversation between myself and an AI — a conversation about observation, feedback, memory, and what it means to think inside a system […]
I’m releasing a new series on objkt: Collective Binary Loops – 28th april 2026 1800CET 👉 https://objkt.com/collections/exhibitions/projects/collective-binary-loops-31562577/exhibition The starting point is simple: A collective of fingers is constantly steering and navigating the world — across billions of devices, in real time. What we usually think of as interaction is actually continuous input. Tap by tap, […]
ONLY THE BOTS KNOW THE TRUTH is part of the Speedshow Context Collapse in L.A. Context Collapse revisits Aram Bartholl’s iconic Speed Show format, reactivating the internet café as a site for presenting digital art during LA Frieze Week 2026. Taking this historical net art framework as a point of departure, the exhibition explores what […]
NFTalkie Walkies is a collaborative project by Florian Kuhlmann and Hans Ulrich Reck, exploring how artistic thinking and theoretical reflection can be situated within the evolving medium of blockchain technology. While NFTs are typically associated with visual one-of-a-kind artworks and their integration into crypto-economic systems, this project uses the format differently: the edition consists not […]
DROP: https://xyz.floriankuhlmann.com/INTERNET_AS_A_POPULIST_TECHBASED_ART_SYSTEM/ ‚Texttoken 0725_01 tokenized‚ is a conceptual blockchain artwork that explores the internet itself as a medium of collective authorship and automated value production. Each letter of the sentence “INTERNET AS A POPULIST TECH-BASED ART SYSTEM” exists as an individual on-chain token within an ERC-1155 contract. Together, they form a complete semantic and visual […]
Current Exhibition: Metamodern Perspectives on the Cybernetic Society kunsthalle.koeln – A Virtual 3D Exhibition Project by Stefanie Klingemann and Ilya Pusenkoff Several of my recent digital works are currently featured in the virtual exhibition Metamodern Perspectives on the Cybernetic Society, hosted at kunsthalle.koeln. Curated by Stefanie Klingemann and Ilya Pusenkoff, the show explores artistic reflections […]
New Release: DIE KYBERNETISCHE GESELLSCHAFT — Now Available on Amazon I’m thrilled to announce the release of my new book DIE KYBERNETISCHE GESELLSCHAFT, now available worldwide via Amazon. This book is a hybrid of theory, media criticism, and artistic reflection. It explores how our reality is increasingly shaped by feedback loops, algorithmic control, and digital […]
title: NFTalkie-walkie greenyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: digital assetsize: responsivetype: HTML/CSS/JS & audio recordingaudio: Hans Ulrich Reckvisual & code: Florian Kuhlmannblockchain: Base (L2 Ethereum by Coinbase) -> Transfer ETH to Base Blockchain HTML-based audio playing web piece using JavaScript, CSS animations, and embedded animated GIFs NFTalkie Walkies by Florian Kuhlmann and Hans Ulrich Reck Background […]
title: NFTalkie-walkie greenyear: 2024src origin: link to assettype: digital assetsize: responsivetype: HTML/CSS/JS & audio recordingaudio: Hans Ulrich Reckvisual & code: Florian Kuhlmannblockchain: Base (L2 Ethereum by Coinbase) -> Transfer ETH to Base Blockchain HTML-based audio playing web piece using JavaScript, CSS animations, and embedded animated GIFs NFTalkie Walkies by Florian Kuhlmann and Hans Ulrich Reck Background […]
