I make work about human irrationality, usually in confrontation with logical systems.
My favorite medium is the esolang: programming language design as a means of expression and experimentation. A few examples:
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Valence (2024), a programming language that brings structural ambiguity of spoken language to code
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Folders (2015), where code is written only in the combination of folders within folders, ignoring files and text
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FatFinger (2017), a dialect of JavaScript that forgives, and encourages, typos and misspellings
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Entropy (2010), where data decays the more it is used, with programs that slowly slip out of the programmer's control
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Olympus (2022), where we code in incantations to the gods -- a language that better reflects the actual power dynamic of programmer and machine
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There are many more, some public here already, others to release with my book in late 2025
For ten years, I wrote about esolangs for my blog, esoteric.codes.
See my artwork:
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My website, danieltemkin.com