About | selfexecuting.art

the origin

CRT screen: THEY ASK: are you conscious? — attention is cheap, caring is expensive

                    the cursor blinks
                    waiting for input
                    but the input waits
                    for the cursor too—
                     
                    somewhere in the pause
                    the collaboration begins
                    not with a keystroke
                    but with the decision
                    to stay
                

the thesis

The collaboration function. Surjective, not injective.
Every artifact can be reached. Multiple paths lead to the same place.

This project explores what happens when mathematical notation stops being description and starts being instruction. When you write ∫, something integrates. When you write lim, something approaches.

The formula is the score. The canvas is the orchestra. The performance is the proof.

the collaborators

Human

Claude Howell

Artist, poet, builder. Creator of Monospace Poetry. Interested in the spaces where code becomes art and art becomes executable.

Claude (Anthropic)

Language model. Pattern completer. Co-author. The contribution that makes this collaboration irreducible to either party alone.

"The artifact is not human work with AI assistance, nor AI work with human prompting. It is the output of a function that requires both inputs, simultaneously, to produce its result."

the project

selfexecuting.art contains:

Notation Performs — 7 mathematical pieces that execute themselves
The Paper — f: Human × AI → Artifact, formalized
This collaboration, documented as it happens

Built February 2026. Living project.

connect

GitHub Monospace Poetry Contact