AJP

Language and Form

A generative study of relationships between points.Source: Generative sketch

About

Anthony James PadavanoWriter, educator, artist & toolmakerPortfolio

My practice connects writing and rhetoric with computational approaches to language, creative work across visual and audio media, and tools that support research and production. I am interested in how a form carries meaning, and how the instruments we use shape what we can make.

Writing, teaching, and making are connected parts of my work. Reading closely, building an argument, composing an image or a sound, and designing a useful workflow all ask for attention to form, context, and the person encountering the result.

Knowledge work includes archives, corpora, source provenance, search, and retrieval. Toolmaking also extends to automation and agent runtimes: ways to organize work, inspect a process, and make its results usable.

How the work connects

The eight-organ model gives different kinds of work a shared vocabulary. Each organ names a function; a project remains a coherent body of work and may involve several cooperating repositories.

The ORGANVM framework organizes work through these functions:

I TheoriaGreek: contemplation — the organ of foundational theory and philosophical frameworks — Ontology, recursion, epistemic engines
II PoiesisGreek: making/creation — the organ of generative art, performance, and experiential systems — Generative art, performance, experiential systems
III ErgonGreek: work/deed — the organ of commercial products and deployed software — Tools, platforms, product work
IV TaxisGreek: arrangement/order — the organ of orchestration, governance, and agent coordination — Orchestration, governance, agent swarms
V LogosGreek: word/reason — the organ of essays, public discourse, and transparent process — Essays, public process, building in public
VI KoinoniaGreek: fellowship/communion — the organ of community, learning groups, and collaboration — Community, salons, collaborative infrastructure
VII KerygmaGreek: proclamation — the organ of distribution, amplification, and audience reach — Distribution, amplification, audience
∞ Meta — The system that holds the system

The framework connects research, making, and practical tools with the work of documenting and sharing them. Its registries and workflows are tools for coordination within that larger practice.

The framework is one part of the work. The writing, artworks, research, and useful tools remain its purpose. Read more in the essays on building in public.

Practice

Writing and language: Creative writing, rhetoric, narrative, close reading, and computational approaches to text.

Knowledge and information: Archives, corpora, source provenance, search, and retrieval.

Art and tools: Visual and audio work, generative media, creative workflows, research software, automation, and agent runtimes.

Get in Touch

I welcome teaching and education opportunities, writing and research work, creative collaboration, and conversations about tools for building and working.