I’m Tom Neijman — a software developer with a mathematics background, working at the intersection of creative coding, AI systems, and durable digital artefacts. I like building things that are both rigorous and poetic: systems that you can inspect, reproduce, and keep — not just consume.
We are rapidly approaching the event horizon of the technological singularity. In an age where AI generates infinite streams of fleeting content, I position my work as a counter-movement to this volatility.
I explore the boundary between the digital and the biological, and I treat “storage” as a cultural problem—not only a technical one.
A guiding question runs through my work: How do we make human knowledge and culture survivable—independent of platforms, business models, and short-lived formats?
Projects like DNA (C)ODE come out of that question: translating digital imagery into synthetic DNA sequences, using biology’s most time-tested medium as a conceptual (and potentially physical) archive.
Alongside the artistic work, I build practical infrastructure for long-term digital survival. With the Stoutenburger Almanac, I develop an “Atomic Web” approach: self-contained HTML artefacts that can live without servers, databases, or complex dependencies.
The idea is simple: if the URL is the interface, the artefact should also be the archive. Portable, inspectable, and resilient.
I’m also interested in how organizations can move beyond “digitization” toward systems that actually execute intent.
That work translates into AI agent infrastructure: encoding workflows and business logic into independent agents that can operate reliably, audibly, and at machine speed—while remaining understandable to humans.
In all of it—bio-art, web primitives, or agents—the goal is the same: turn fragile streams into stable artefacts.