SCALE Multiplier

Nine essays on scales of writing—from microscopic to enormous. Read each chapter below.

Edited by Jonathan Phillips and Clément Renaud; cover by Niki Selken. Nine contributors write at different scales—from emoji and ledger lines to city streets and mountain trails: Isaiah Sellers, Niki Selken, Jey Sushil and Mee Jey, Jon Phillips, Paul Guzzardo, Clément Renaud, Nicolas Nova, and Christopher Adams. Published Dec 31, 2021. The full book is open on the web; 88 limited-edition NFT keys were minted in 2021.

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Editors — Introduction

"Probably this has always been the case: once an action is recounted, for intransitive ends, and no longer in order to act directly upon reality — that is, finally external to any function but the…

In 1937, Alan Turing published “On Computable Numbers”. He proposed inventing a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence. Claude Shannon, an MIT graduate student,…

Isaiah Sellers — 37.96.21.

In 1937, Alan Turing published “On Computable Numbers”. He proposed inventing a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence. Claude Shannon, an MIT graduate student,…

Niki Selken — It's an Emoji Story 👩🏼‍💻

I was a dyslexic kid who grew up with a love for visual art, not necessarily because I was great at it or my family was particularly cultured, but simply because images were legible to me. The…

In his famous essay 'Why I Write' George Orwell notes that perhaps at the age of five or six, he knew that he should be a writer when he grows up. According to Orwell, he was lonely as a child, he…

Jey Sushil — I am what I write...

In his famous essay 'Why I Write' George Orwell notes that perhaps at the age of five or six, he knew that he should be a writer when he grows up. According to Orwell, he was lonely as a child, he…

Jon Phillips — Setting The Table

This is a factual accounting of the physical object created for The Table.

Mee Jey — I always wanted to be an artist

Mee Jey is an Indian artist based in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. She is co-founder of Artologue, an art-travel project co-founded with Jey Sushil.

Paul Guzzardo — Ai China Chica

Ai China Chica is one of eight storyboards developed for two Buenos Aires architectural graduate workshops and UNESCO presentations in France, Lithuania, and Sweden.

Clément Renaud — Knowledge E.T.C.

The attempt of modern science to create disciplines has lead to a wealth of specific, domain-driven knowledge. Great advances have been reached through the pursuit of the specifics. Technology, as a…

Nicolas Nova — Cyborg Mountains of Switzerland

Stretching approximately 1,200 km across eight countries (France, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia), the Alps are the most extensive mountain range system of…

Christopher Adams — The Artist and the Exhibition in the Canny Valley

This is a series of digital photographs interpreted with Canny edge detection and centerline autotrace software, of Jun Yang's "The Artist, his Collaborators, their Exhibition, and three Venues" at…