Greetings Fellow Egg 🥚,
Welcome to the second issue of “**Half Dozen”** – a fortnightly foray into the world of arts & technology startups and founders.
We are continuing to deliver a curated mix of invitations and recaps, market news, founder updates, and behind-the-scenes peeks at what we’re building at Restless Egg.
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Last weekend, Fuser—a Restless Egg portfolio company—hosted an open alpha in Los Angeles and officially exited stealth mode. In case you missed it, Fuser is an all-in-one AI platform that lets users interact with multiple current and emerging AI models on a single canvas. Using an intuitive node-based system, Fuser connects models with diverse quirks and training sets, transforming the traditional one-on-one chatbot experience into a dynamic, multi-model interaction. Check out this demo workflow, YouTube walkthrough, and sign up for early access here.
Laser Days/Blue Leaf—also a Restless Egg company—welcomed visitors to its collective Ridgewood, NY studio space, shared with animators, artists, game designers, and sculptors, to showcase recent projects including Biotopy, Schema, and experiments with slime mold, AI and pen plotting. Their invitation animation went viral! The open house featured behind-the-scenes glimpses of the upcoming film, Acid City, and a special visit from Caldo Worldwide presenting new copies of Interplay. For more, check out this recent talk by Professor Doug Stark, “Simema: Radical Passivity in Freudenheim’s Schema” at the CAA Annual Conference.
Restless Egg completed the second stop on its mini-quantum tour following a visit to Geneva for Arts at CERN. This time in Berlin, the team visited Kraftwerk for the opening of Laure Prouvost’s exhibition, “We Felt a Star Dying,” in collaboration with LAS. Notably, during the flight, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tweeted that his company had “created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing,” adding that this state of matter “powers Majorana 1, the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core.” Following the opening, Tobias Rees—Prouvost’s philosophical collaborator—discussed the conceptual breakthroughs in quantum physics and computing, and announced his new project, limn, an R&D studio at the intersection of philosophy, art, and technology. Both Limn and Restless Egg share the belief that conceptual innovations discovered by artists and philosophers are increasingly driving the invention process. For a more in-depth review of Prouvost’s show, Arts at CERN, and the emerging quantum culture, see Günseli Yalcinkaya’s piece, “How Art Went Quantum.”
Check out this New York Times article, “A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups,” which examines how AI is reducing the costs of expertise and compute while boosting productivity. This shift challenges traditional corporate models and paves the way for what Sam Altman calls the “one-person unicorn”—heralding the rise of the artist-founder, a concept central to the Restless Egg lexicon.
On 19 February, Restless Egg attended “The Robots are Taking Over,” a talk at Central Saint Martins featuring bionic influencer and futurist Tilly Lockey. Lockey discussed her vision for prosthetic arms that do not merely conceal amputations but instead serve as additive, fashionable, and customizable accessories. She is collaborating with a startup to design wearables that blend functionality with style. This talk was part of a digital innovation series at CSM, which also featured MIT Architecture’s Nicholas de Monchaux on “Spacesuits [as] A Wearable Architecture.” The series ultimately helped launch Earthsuits, an R&D project by Stephanie Sherman, Lukas Likavcan, and Rachel Pearl exploring how wearables can transform human adaptation and augmentation. Keep an eye out for Lukáš’ upcoming Earthsuits talk at NYU Shanghai on March 7th.
