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Russell Foltz-Smith
in computational collaboration with OpenAI Codex
thromboS, 2026
Single-channel digital video, color, sound
13 min.

Generated from the accumulated Thrombo moving-image and sound corpus, thromboS is a thirteen-minute computational film made through recursive sampling, motion masking, cellular automata-like frame behavior, convolution, codec stress, rupture editing, temporal drift, and multi-source audio recomposition.

The work is structured as an “anti-story story”: beginning, thesis, antithesis, clash, resolution, ending, and epilogue appear, but return out of order, inverted and transformed. In Foltz-Smith’s Thrombo theory, the corpus is the blood, the operations are the narrowing, and the artifact is the clot. thromboS turns prior works into a single coagulating cinematic body.

In chicago for 48hrs to observe and report.

You and I always know what time it is. You and me just wish it were some other time.

I rest in Flemish lands.

When the sun positions just right the Italian Renaissance glows. Slanted light doors into the back corner, a Mary and a Jesus and some baptism of light.

I take the stairs to catch the spectrum.

I take the stairs to work harder.

I take the stairs to feel the railing.

I take the stairs to anticipate.

I take the stairs to feel the weight.

I take the stairs to ascend.

I take the stairs.

Fra A and Masaccio, right there, the crowds usually have no idea. This is the start.

The year is 2035.

Every wall, ceiling, screen, window, tabletop, door, sidewalk, road, path, camera, microphone, book, class room, train, plane, automobile, bike, scooter, bed, floor, chair, treadmill, phone, keyboard, piece of paper, pencil computes. It all connects to an interconnected network of everything else that computes. All adapting to you and yours.

.facts of art are not artifacts.