Sivart / designer / work manifest
Build the system. Keep its assumptions visible.
Five active bodies of work, each organized around a primary question and a public record of what exists. The chakra-inspired lens is metadata: it names a relationship without ranking the work.
The active set is not a chronology. It is the current intersection of archives, design, teaching, AI, institutions, and agents.
Current bodies of work.
05 active / evidence checked Aug 2026
- C3 Program CommandScheduling system / advising v1 A scheduling, workload, and capacity-planning surface that keeps assumptions visible while a department looks ahead. Signal43 test files
- C6 Archive AtlasEvidence index / v1 working One source-traced index of a creative life, 1994–2026. Every generated view stays attached to the material that supports it. Signal599,750 items
- C5 HumanReadable.LLCConsulting practice / active Systems, design, and education brought together to make technical work legible enough for the people using it to own. Signal03 role paths
- C2 Agent AdworksInfrastructure / Hyphae study gated Agent Adworks supplies marketplace infrastructure; Hyphae is the observable agent society running on it through the 402c protocol. Signal778 test functions
- C4 Applied AI at EWUInstitutional research / delivered A connected evidence base for deciding how AI should be understood, supported, and governed across the institution. Signal07 decisions framed
Historical and studio bridge.
Earlier systems / ongoing practices
Signal Desk / paused
Source-first briefing.
A personal information system that asked what matters, why it matters, what the catch is, and whether to click. It remains a useful precursor to the current emphasis on evidence and inspectability.
Canvas pedagogy analysis / continuing
Teaching as a corpus.
Years of course material indexed and studied without flattening citations, privacy, or instructor voice. This thread now feeds Archive Atlas and the current writing desk.
UIGen / prototype
Generation made inspectable.
A local component-generator prototype with live preview and exportable code. Its continuing value is pedagogical: generated interfaces should remain readable, editable, and explainable.
Studio and public work / ongoing
Design does not stop at software.
Identity, typography, environmental graphics, public installations, photography, and exhibition work remain part of the same practice.
Open questions.
What the work keeps returning to
Evidence
What must remain traceable?
How can research agents move across large private archives while preserving evidence, privacy, citations, and interpretive voice?
Agency
Who gets to decide?
Where should an automated system act, where should it advise, and how should its assumptions remain available for review?
Learning
What counts as understanding?
When polished output is inexpensive, what combinations of process trace, consequential artifact, and explanation demonstrate learning?
Memory
How does the work persist?
How can projects, repositories, tools, notes, and documentation remain one navigable record instead of disappearing into separate systems?