The Labyrinth
On permanence, ambiguity, and Murat Pak’s function as object
After the Artist: What Persists in Pak’s Protocol Works
There’s a temptation in every discussion of Murat Pak to make the same mistake: to treat the artist as the engine, and the ecosystem as an output that either revives or dies depending on whether the engine restarts. That framing misses what is most unusual about Pak’s practice. Pak didn’t primarily make objects. Pak made constraint-systems whose outputs are human behaviour — and those systems persist whether the artist speaks or not. The silence is narratively dominant, but it is not ontologi...
After the Artist: What Persists in Pak’s Protocol Works
There’s a temptation in every discussion of Murat Pak to make the same mistake: to treat the artist as the engine, and the ecosystem as an output that either revives or dies depending on whether the engine restarts. That framing misses what is most unusual about Pak’s practice. Pak didn’t primarily make objects. Pak made constraint-systems whose outputs are human behaviour — and those systems persist whether the artist speaks or not. The silence is narratively dominant, but it is not ontologi...
Systems as Art
The work of Murat Pak
The Silence
A Thesis On Murat Pak
Pak’s The Fungible
Protocol Art & Digital Ownership
