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The Freedom to Change Your Mind After Changing Your Body

January 28, 2016

My illustration entitled: "The Wings We Chose" - highly enhanced woman unfurls enormous biomechanical wings on a mountain summit. Featherlike solar membranes, metallic bones and living tissue form a strikin...

Blockchain in Art and Luxury: The Real Deal

January 18, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

In my latest illustration, I depict a street artist painting on the streets of tokyo in cyberpunk style - science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technolog...

Robotics and AI: Reel Life to Real Life

December 8, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

A close-up illustration of a female artificial intelligence robot named ZOFIA, a Polish variant of name Sophia. The name of Lieutenant Zofia in Command and Conquer (my favorite computer game during my teen ...

Rare-Earth Elements: A Strategic Pivot in Global Supply and Security

November 11, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

Rare earth elements (REEs) are the invisible backbone of the modern economy. Comprising 17 chemical elements—including neodymium, dysprosium, europium, and yttrium—they are essential for everything from smart...

Decentralization Is a Check on Power

October 26, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

Why Digital Systems Must Prevent Unnecessary Concentrations of Authority My illustration entitled "The Key Against the Leviathan" - A colossal mechanical leviathan formed from surveillance cameras, fin...

No One Should Be Born Into a License Agreement: Genetic Data and Biological Ownership

October 16, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The DNA Contract" — A newborn’s DNA helix unspools into a dense corporate agreement, while a parent reaches to protect the child from signing. A license agreement is a contra...

Cypherpunk: Politics Versus Technology

October 5, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

In my latest illustration, I feature Cypherpunk activists wearing Guy Fawkes masks during in a Million Mask march in a futuristic cyberpunk style art carrying sign 'Anonymous' and 'Cypherpunk Manifesto'. -...

Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Ban or No Ban?

September 26, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

Referencing Iron Man 3 (2013), I attempt to illustrate and portray myself as the pilot of a 'Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems' suit. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ...