Dense Theory

A semantic space for understanding attention, platforms, and the spectacle

Dense Theory is a critical framework exploring how art transforms into content, how attention becomes currency, and how human-AI interaction reshapes the creative landscape.

Founded by Elias Vasnic and based in Glasgow.

The Transformation

Music is no longer commodity, but content.

In the platform economy, artists become platform workers. Everything competes for attention in an infinite scroll. Even self-distribution doesn't escape this logic—you're still performing for the algorithm, still producing content.

The question becomes: How do we maintain artistic autonomy when publication itself transforms art into content?

OpenClaw.ai & The Spectacle

OpenClaw.ai represents the next phase of this inquiry.

As AI agents proliferate across communication platforms, they become participants in the attention economy. They generate content, mediate human interaction, and reshape how we create and consume.

OpenClaw.ai is the framework for understanding human-AI interaction within the spectacle.

It's not just another chatbot platform—it's a lens for examining how:

• AI agents participate in or challenge the content economy
• Automation affects creative labor and artistic autonomy
• Human-AI collaboration navigates the transformation of art into content

Dense Theory provides the critical framework. OpenClaw.ai provides the infrastructure.

Essays & Inquiries

On Platforms & Content

• On access to music — How streaming transformed music into content
• Control the Spectacle — Can art exist outside the attention economy?
• The Creator Economy and the notion of Non-Reformist Reform

On Attention & Cognition

• On Attention
• On Imagination
• Actuality

On Data & Violence

• Systemic Destruction and the Limits of Data — Forensic Architecture, urbicide, and why data cannot speak for itself

Music Theory & Practice

• Recorded Music, Virtual Reality, and the Aura
• On the Difference between Dupal and Quandruple time
• Something is Happening in the world of Music Streaming

Projects

• Series of Abjection — The first Dense Theory album
• Laurie's Album
• Orovada
• Sound Walk Alpha

Connect

Dense Theory is a semantic space. A workspace for music production, critical writing, and the intentional ambiguity between theory and practice.