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Michael Neff

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Michael Neff's (@heyneff) ‘Rules of the Game’ was part of our MORE.zip exhibition in April 2024, and explores turning the familiar into the uncanny

The series delves into the typology of fields, courts, and tracks, capturing them from an overhead perspective reminiscent of satellite imagery or drone photography. The results provoke a questioning of the familiar: what are these altered sports called, and by what rules are they governed?

Beneath the surface, it becomes evident that these anomalies are not products of camera tricks, but the outcomes of AI image generation, governed by blackbox rulesets that use observations of relationships to mimic reality, but ultimately fail under human scrutiny. by @heyneff

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Sketch for HBD, 2026 by @heyneff

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Slit scan version of the 2:1 video of the over 1,400 images from THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN DELETED, 2026, which is currently exhibited in WYSIWYG, curated by @devharlan and presented on eBay. Link in bio. Reach out with questions. by @heyneff

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9 days ago

Flaps down by @heyneff

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I am in a show. The show is curated by @devharlan. The show is exhibited on @ebay. The show gathers a group of technologist-artists presenting work across a wide and confusing range of media. That’s why the exhibition belongs on The Internet. **The show has 100% positive feedback on eBay.**

Link in bio taken in eBay by @heyneff

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Michael Neff @heyneff is a serious thinker, and I appreciate the care he put into this work. It begins with a prompt: THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN DELETED. The resulting 1400 image outputs are then randomly served up inside a hacked eBay listing. You receive a print of the image in the listing at the moment of purchase. Love it.

https://ebay.io/m/e7bQwj

Title: THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN DELETED (WYSIWYG), 2026 by Michael Neff

Description:
The image featured in this description is pulled from a collection of 1,405 files. Every output was generated using only the prompt "THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN DELETED," and an aspect ratio. By centering the work on such an ambiguous phrase, I am pushing the model to reveal its own internal bias—the underlying structural grain of its training data.

While 99% are synthetic artifacts of our current AI era, the remaining 1% are authentic relics from the Web 2.0 period—remnants of a time defined by fragile servers and the human use of text-as-image. This project bridges the distance between the early days of eBay and the contemporary mechanics of blind NFT minting. Using custom software on my server, I have automated a cycle where the hotlinked image refreshes every 90 seconds. While the eBay listing remains static, the visual object is in constant flux. If you find a version that resonates, you must act before the server moves on. The only way to track this evolution is through a manual refresh.

The buyer receives the image from the time of transaction as a unique archival print, approximately 9x12 inches. taken in eBay by @heyneff

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17 days ago

Selections from my 2025 series Tarmac
👀 #7 is a zoom in to 100% of #2
Released with Artie Galerie on @verse_works by @heyneff

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4 months ago

Michael Neff
The anxiety of latent opportunity, 2026
MacBook Pro, macOS Tahoe 26.5.1, Claude Code 2.1.165, Codex CLI 0.136.0, Antigravity IDE 2.0.4, aluminum by @heyneff

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I started making crossword puzzle drawings in 2007 (probably before). I’ve recently begun again. These are drawn from the nominally local newspapers of the communities where a top news story happened each day. In truth few newspapers are making their own crosswords because of consolidation, they’re licensing them. I connect the drawings to the local paper by basing the color of each drawing on the newspaper’s website branding. by @heyneff

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by @heyneff

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Apparently it’s been this kind of summer by @heyneff

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Thinking about earlier thoughts by @heyneff

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