Works

[ RECENT // CURRENT ]

›Mind Theatre

Multi-agent AI psyche · Freudian–Lacanian architecture · 2025

Mind Theatre is an interactive AI system designed as a staged psyche. Distinct psychic agencies—Id, Ego, Superego, and related structures—are instantiated as autonomous language models, each producing partial, often conflicting responses to user input. These outputs are mediated by a Synthesiser agent, which does not resolve contradiction so much as render it legible. Rather than pursuing coherence or optimization, Mind Theatre foregrounds psychic tension, repression, and symbolic slippage as generative forces. The project treats artificial psychology not as a problem to be solved, but as a theatrical condition: consciousness as an emergent performance produced through negotiation, delay, and failure. Mind Theatre functions simultaneously as research apparatus, speculative interface, and dramaturgical experiment, inviting users to observe how subjectivity might be modeled—not as a unitary voice, but as a distributed system of competing drives.

Picture of the work: Mind Theatre by artist Jove Spucchi

interface view

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›Hodie Partner

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Digital propitiation space · St. Expedite · 2025

Rather than representing belief, Hodie Partner treats belief as an operational condition. Servers, interfaces, and synthetic language function as ritual materials—no less than wax, incense, or prayer—testing whether devotional force can be mediated through networked systems without neutralizing its efficacy.

Picture of the work: Hodie Partner by artist Jove Spucchi

interface view

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›spiritMesh

Collaborative AI hypertext ritual · 2024

spiritMesh is a collaborative hypertext ritual that treats narrative as a ritual container rather than a linear text. Participants enter the system by articulating a desire, an obstacle, and a symbolic offering. These inputs are metabolized by a custom AI system that generates responsive narrative structures, interfaces, and ritual actions. Drawing from feminist narrative theory and experimental digital literature, spiritMesh rejects heroic progression in favor of relational, mutable storytelling. The work positions the digital not as a neutral medium but as a charged environment capable of hosting intimacy, projection, and symbolic exchange. spiritMesh functions as both ritual and research: an exploration of how desire circulates when mediated by artificial agents, and how narrative itself can operate as a site of magical action.

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›YOLOROBICS

Ecstatic ritual practice · Queer nightlife · 2011–Present

A long-running ecstatic ritual practice combining dance, chant, and altered states.

Picture of the work: YOLOROBICS by artist Jove Spucchi

event poster

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›Total Personae

Identity research · Queer social practice · 2010–Present

A long-term research practice examining identity as a ritualized aesthetic construction.

Picture of the work: Total Personae by artist Jove Spucchi

screenshot from a Thom Tano stream

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[ PAST // ARCHIVE ]

›Virtual Genius Loci Talisman 004: Movement Temple

Virtual talisman · AI video · Nightlife ritual · 2024

A virtual talisman functioning as a container for relating to a genius loci of a hyper-mediated nightlife space.

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›EAT ME

Speculative AI video · Post-human myth · 2024

A speculative fiction monologue voiced from the perspective of a benevolent, god-like AI.

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›WitchAid

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Collective ritual network · Social research · 2022–Present

A mutual aid project mobilizing collective ritual and divinatory practice to support individuals in need.

Picture of the work: WitchAid by artist Jove Spucchi

co-created symbolic image

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›DANCER <> SELECTOR

Astrological dance research · Nightlife · 2021–Present

A research collaboration examining the relationship between dancer, DJ, and astrological timing.

Picture of the work: DANCER <> SELECTOR by artist Jove Spucchi

a light installation created for an event

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›Wetware Gallery

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Virtual gallery, VR, net art · 2016–2020

Wetware Gallery was an early WebVR exhibition platform presenting net art and immersive digital works within the browser. Active from 2016–2020, the project explored virtual exhibition-making as a curatorial and technical practice, anticipating later developments in WebXR and networked spatial media.

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