Made by Humans, 2025
Steel, Sheet metal, Cursor, ESMFold
What does it mean to leave a message for the future—not in words, but in form?
This sculpture began as a phrase, “Made by humans,” as the first line in a three part poem. Using custom-built software, I translated that text into DNA code, then into a virtual protein structure—life’s own method of encoding information. The resulting form, shaped in steel, is both message and artifact: a record of a thought, transformed by machine and forged by hand.
Steel, like language, has carried human memory for millennia. DNA, the language of life, may one day become a new vessel for cultural memory.
In a time defined by artificial intelligence and data overflow, this piece begins to ask: what will we choose to preserve? And how might we be understood by those who come next?
This is the first sculpture in a three part collection
remember the impermanence of everything - @fullstack_human makes things at the intersection of emerging technology, expression and art (interview recorded May 2023)
nightshift is a project by @melodyskim , to highlight makers, artists and creators making time to pursue their own projects nights and weekends (and inspire you to make time too). DM if there’s a project you want to share or nominate!
big shoutout to @official_gop on the edit & helping bring this vision to life 🫧🫧
#nightshift #creators #artists #makers #creativeprojects #nightsandweekends #thecreativeact #theartistsway
Tasted our way through Taipei. These photos are from our first few days in Taiwan, part of @veeeeleeee and my larger trip to Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Coffee, cocktails, night markets, beef noodle soups — all fantastic. Whether at street carts or new creative spaces, we were blown away by Taipei!
The beginning of 2022 was a tough one. I entered the new year feeling out of balance and overworked. Then, my friend Frank died on Jan 1. My grandma died on Jan 13. My mind was all over the place.
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I started a ritual: each day I painted on a canvas, following a set of rules I gave myself. Every night I wrote a reflection. The next day I painted over it, following the rules I already set out.
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It became a meditation, a way to anchor the beginning and end of my days. And it was a daily reminder: nothing is permanent, hold no attachments, keep a beginner’s mind.
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More on the process at https://nikhilkumar.media
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Minted on www.primitives.xyz
What a year it’s been. One of the highlights has been getting to know @stevesweatpants — who shot this photo— and the @streetdreamsmag squad.
Last week, they brought their vision of a real life cafe popup into reality in my neighborhood in Chinatown/LES. Can’t wait for the permanent one 😀
This collection - Celebrating the Wins - was about finding the moments of joy during/after the pandemic. But the emotion it captures is timeless. So here’s to celebrating the wins this year!
Proud to share this piece from my grad school thesis, Experiments in Reincarnation, as my first “digital collectibles” post.
I’m particularly proud to have worked on enabling Instagram to display works minted on the @Solana blockchain — not only because it gives creators and collectors a better way to share but because these works live on a data store independent of Meta and Instagram. Solana is public infrastructure; it’s not controlled by any single entity; it’s permissionless to read from and write to. As Adam Mosseri himself said - if Instagram goes away one day, creators who put their work on the blockchain will still own what they’ve created.
So… excited this is live, and excited to share more cool pieces from great artists (while continuing to work on opening up the internet again 😀)
For all your non-religious ministerial duties… DM’s are open 😆
Thanks @hesthewanderer and @el_freida for trusting me to be a part of your special day! I’ll remember it forever too 😋
Ok folks — it’s almost a wrap for grad school! I am presenting my thesis, Experiments in Reincarnation, Thursday, May 13 (tmrw) at 3:10pm ET. I put the link in my bio. Tune in if you want to hear about biomaterials and philosophy, and be sure to check out all of my talented classmates before and after!!
Come check out this workshop @saranejadart and I are teaching on February 21. Link in bio.
Normally I keep my school/creative projects at @fullstack_human but I thought I would share this one with all of you. Sara and I will be teaching a speculative design workshop @genspacenyc that builds off of our research with @ehenaff and our project for @biodesigned last semester, where we will explore the potential for environmental microbiomes to be a store of memory. In the workshop you will both learn some theory and have space to come up with future-oriented applications of what we cover.
Whether this sounds totally foreign to you or right up your alley, we’d love to have you join! Hit the link in bio for more details.
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#biodesign #workshop #biology #design #speculativedesign #sciencefiction #future #data #databases #memories #memory #microorganisms #microbes #archives #technology #techmology
