TANK HEAD Marc Craig, 2025 Mixed media on OS MAP
INTRODUCTION
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
— Hamlet, Act I, Scene V
This project chronicles an unconventional journey toward the creation of what is now known as Spectral Auditor V2.6, an open, attribution-licensed mathematical framework for spectral coherence analysis. The outcome is a simple tool that has been numerically verified and demonstrates a meaningful correlation with real-world engineering data. More than the result itself, however, this work is defined by the process through which it came into being.
It was created by a team consisting of an artist (me, Marc Craig) and six AI platforms over the course of two days. In reality, the process unfolded across roughly four weeks if one includes the experimentation, detours, and numerous rabbit holes that revealed other unexpected insights. However, once Spectral Auditor V2.6 emerged, it took just two days to move from manifestation to a completed report, which is presented in PART 1.
Conventionally, most people would expect a linear narrative: a question leads to research, which yields a result. With this exhibition, I have deliberately inverted that expectation. The work is structured as a backward journey, beginning with conclusive, verified mathematics and proceeding toward its origins in paradox and creative exploration. Each component is able to stand on its own merit, inviting scrutiny without requiring acceptance of the whole.
The project is presented in four connected parts. While entry is possible at any point, the intended path moves from outcome, to process, to origin, and finally to an open invitation for collaboration. You will encounter the work in the order PART 1, PART 2, PART 3, and PART 4, although its conventional chronology is PART 3, PART 2, PART 1, followed by PART 4. This reversal separates the credibility of the finished mathematics from the creative conditions of its emergence, allowing the results to be evaluated independently while maintaining transparency around their genesis.
What unites these parts is a consistent commitment to verification. Every conceptual step was subjected to rigorous numerical and empirical testing; what failed was discarded. The final framework is not the product of inspiration alone, but of a stringent filtering process in which only ideas that survived validation were allowed to advance. The result occupies a rare space: a mathematically credible artefact born from a deeply non-traditional path.
That path is called the H Hierarchy.
Dedicated to those that listened even if they didn’t understand.
CLICK “H” TO CONTINUE TO PART 1
PLEASE NOTE… Licensing Notice
DREAM / MAKE / VOID
© Marc Craig. All rights reserved.
This framework is not licensed for reuse, adaptation, or derivative works without explicit written permission.
H Hierarchy Equations V1 as seen in PART 2
Released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Free to use, cite, analyse, and build upon in any context, provided attribution is given to Marc Craig as the original source of discovery.
THE FIRST INTERATION OF H3 EQUATION is NOT released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
Spectral Auditor V2.6 as seen in PART 1
Released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Free to use, adapt, and apply with attribution to Marc Craig as original source.
SCOPE OF LICENCE
The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence applies only to the original H Hierarchy equations in their raw, initially published form, and to the Spectral Auditor concept as first released V2.6.
EXCLUSIONS
Any subsequent developments, refinements, extensions, or reinterpretations authored by Marc Craig are not included in this licence and remain the intellectual property of the author.
Independent developments or applications created by third parties are permitted, provided attribution is given for the original source material where used.