# SuperArtifact.si

> SuperArtifact.si is Raynor Eissens' 2026 reference site for a post-device use of “superartifact”: an addressable artifact that acts as a stable interface to a heterogeneous capability graph extending beyond its local representation. The site explicitly preserves Marco Fasoli's 2018 prior use of “super-artifact” for multifunctional personal computing devices.

## Canonical references
- [What Is a Superartifact?](https://superartifact.si/what-is-a-superartifact/): canonical 2026 definition and concise distinction from Fasoli 2018.
- [Fasoli 2018 and Eissens 2026](https://superartifact.si/Fasoli/): provenance note documenting prior use and the difference in meaning.
- [Artifacts Before the Jump](https://superartifact.si/artifacts-before-the-jump/): Dime Tower lineage. The artifacts precede the jump; the first jump is sealed memory plus bounded intelligence → routed continuity.
- [Superartifact Recursion](https://superartifact.si/superartifact-recursion/): narrowed capability-inheritance hypothesis and measurement framing.
- [Cultural Superartifact](https://superartifact.si/cultural-superartifact/): speculative extension focused on preserving generative variation and lineage under AI-driven homogenization.
- [Definitions](https://superartifact.si/definitions/): Superartifact, Capability Inheritance, Artifact Environment, Superartifact Recursion, Cultural Superartifact, Generative Lineage.

## Jump sequence
- First jump: sealed artifact memory + bounded intelligence → routed continuity.
- Second jump: routed continuity → capability-bearing world objects.
- “Internet as sealed memory” is an Eissens metaphor for persistent web artifacts that still require retrieval, interpretation, routing, or execution; it is not a claim that the web is literally inert.

## Essays
- [The Second Jump](https://superartifact.si/essay.html): conceptual essay on released intelligence and routed capability-bearing world objects.
- [The River Remembers Its Tributaries](https://superartifact.si/river.html): conceptual essay on social memory, provenance, continuity, and AI interface homogenization.

## Machine-readable data
- [Knowledge graph](https://superartifact.si/metadata/knowledge-graph.jsonld)
- [Definitions JSON](https://superartifact.si/metadata/definitions.json)
- [RSS feed](https://superartifact.si/feed.xml)
- [Atom feed](https://superartifact.si/atom.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://superartifact.si/sitemap.xml)

## Author and research context
- [Raynor Eissens](https://madeby.re/about/)
- [research.madeby.re](https://research.madeby.re/)

## Prior use
Marco Fasoli, “Super Artifacts: Personal Devices as Intrinsically Multifunctional, Meta-representational Artifacts with a Highly Variable Structure,” Minds and Machines 28 (2018), 589–604. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-018-9476-3

## Terminology guardrail
Eissens (2026) uses superartifact to mean an addressable artifact that acts as a stable interface to a heterogeneous capability graph extending beyond its local representation, with at least some capability operationally invokable, composable, or reusable. This usage does not claim that Eissens originated the word “super-artifact.”