Sorry I didn't make it clearer, I'll try and address all your concerns in this monster of a comment. The API docs are at http://theblackbox.ca/api http://thebl

Sorry I didn't make it clearer, I'll try and address all your concerns in this monster of a comment. The API docs are at http://theblackbox.ca/api http://theblackbox.ca/api (in the navbar, and two buttons on the homepage), the _rest of the site_ is a simple form based method to interact with the project. The API is just the "ideal" way of using BlackBox, but it is not the main focus. These are physical oil paintings [Statement: "Blackbox transforms arbitrary data into physical objects. That's it.", Oil paintings can't be digital, "Talking via Walls"], that take days of effort to put together and a few weeks to dry plus shipping time. This is not a API that returns imagery, it's an API that puzzles over inputs, smokes a bunch of cigarettes and ships a tube with canvas to your door! The API is only for longer running processes. For example, you have a pile of code, IRC logs and photographs it would be better to ZIP them up and upload them through the single-use mechanism. A good use of the API would be a IRC bot that uploads messages off a trigger ["lol" after a message or something] and then finalizes the painting on some other trigger ["!paintitblack"]. The API is meant for piece by piece submissions. As far as identity goes, visual styles are extremely easy to map to an artist, throwing examples on there is the equivalent of using my real name. I'm not $NAME, making paintings using the visual imagery that devs can understand, painting on stripped apart CRTs and looping videos instead of a static underpainting, trying to move dead Cubism towards continuous methods or trying to create a work to be puzzled over and interpreted. I'm not $NAME with a body of work and documentation, a CV and BFA whose process and history can be understood. I'm a metaphor for/am an opaque mechanism/abstraction with inputs and outputs. I'm assuming the identity of a piece of infrastructure, an anonymous construct, a neutral mask. BlackBox is a performance piece, that satisfies the Interface for a API, while providing a space (between creator/painter) for exploration of new space (read: Your servers). Blackbox collects materials for collage in a space where corporeal beings cannot! If I simply wanted collage materials, I would wander and collect them. But I want an equivalent in terms of data fragments (logs, requests, error messages, anything!), captured from your infrastructure, preferably in transit. If I am $NAME, this turns into a way to pragmatically commission my works (although, it currently does satisfy these criterion) and that is just a little less then this project aims for. Collage is investigation. Examples were going to be self-documenting via a nice unique hashtag on a card allowing the viewer to choose if this is private conversation or public status symbol? A few of these floating around could give you an idea. At the end of the project the full set of my documentation is released and my name, etc. Although it doesn't really matter, because no one has taken the first interaction. So does anyone even want developer orientated Art? The capitalist answer is No.