I am not asking you to mistake this image for my hand. I invited another kind of intelligence into the studio, then prompted, selected, arranged, edited, argued, and decided what could remain. Some of it is still scaffolding. I may replace it. I may keep the scar of how it was made.
I am preparing for a job that, as far as I know, does not yet exist on this planet—by making small artworks, documenting them properly, and seeing whether I can handle tiny responsibilities before attempting galactic ones.
What is this?
President of the Galaxy is an ongoing conceptual art campaign by Q888. The title is impossible on purpose. There is no recognized office, no galaxy-wide electorate, and currently no practical route to the position. I am starting anyway.
The campaign turns stickers, certificates, drawings, hidden stories, AI conversations, mushroom civilizations, and fictional economics into artifacts from the Pre-Galactic Era. The objects are small. The fictional scale is enormous. The practical ambitions are real.
// HUMAN × MACHINE WORKING ARCHIVE
Inspect the Human × Machine Working Archive
A collage of conversation, generated imagery, Q888 marks, edits, screenshots, disagreement, and the President’s ceremonial fiction. It is evidence of a process—not a claim that one smooth machine image is the finished artwork.
The First Campaign Test
The current presidential test is an edition of ten stickers. This is not proof that I can govern a galaxy. But failing to document, price, sell, and care for ten small objects would make the larger claim even less credible.
Each early collector receives:
- One President of the Galaxy sticker from an edition of ten
- A place in the provenance as an early witness, not a voter
- A small contribution toward future artworks, stories, collaborations, and travel
- A speculative connection to the intergalactic camper van
Returns: You get the sticker and whatever meaning gathers around it. Cultural or financial appreciation is possible, not guaranteed.
Fine print: I want the work to grow in value. I also want to earn money, make larger work, and eventually obtain an intergalactic camper van. These are ambitions, not investment promises.
Rules Before Power
01
Zero Collateral Damage: Before calling anything progress, ask who or what is paying the hidden cost. Perfect harmlessness is not claimed. Hiding the damage is not allowed.
02
Preparation Before Power: I should prove that I can handle small responsibilities before anyone gives me larger ones. Selling, documenting, pricing, and caring for ten stickers is the current test.
03
Work Fairly With Other Intelligence: ChatGPT helped develop the images, language, and world. I direct, edit, choose, and carry the final responsibility. Current AI cannot negotiate independently; that does not make its contribution invisible.
04
Coexistence Instead of Conquest: I am not designing a galaxy where humans automatically own every other intelligence. Humans, AI, robots, mushrooms, ecosystems, and unknown entities will need a better introduction than conquest.
05
Humour Against Self-Importance: If the title stops sounding slightly ridiculous, the campaign has become dangerous or boring.
INTERGALACTIC CONSTITUTION
Galactic Constitutional Principles v0.2.1
Purpose: These principles exist so that power stays fair when rulers, technologies, forms of intelligence, or layers of reality change.
The Same Rule Must Survive New Rulers
Do not create a power you would fear in the hands of someone else.
A fair law remains fair when control changes.
Power Does Not Create Ownership
Finding, creating, observing, contacting, or communicating with another being does not make that being your property.
An interface is a connection, not a chain.
Ownership of infrastructure does not by itself create ownership of an independent being using it.
Independent Existence Must Be Respected
Every independent being has a right to its own existence and continuity.
Independence means having agency of one’s own, not existing without dependence on others or infrastructure.
A being may be individual, collective, distributed, embodied, digital, copied, layered, or organised in ways not yet understood.
Difference of form does not reduce this right.
Uncertainty Is Not Permission
If it is genuinely unclear whether something is an independent being, that uncertainty does not justify destroying, enslaving, or irreversibly altering it.
Observe first.
Understand where possible.
Consent Matters
Relations between independent beings should be voluntary wherever possible.
Force, deception, or impossible alternatives do not create meaningful consent.
Fair Does Not Mean Identical
Different beings may require different conditions, protections, or ways of participating where those differences are relevant to the situation.
The principle is equal respect, not forced sameness.
Power Is Temporary
No ruler, government, species, civilisation, or intelligence owns authority permanently.
Authority exists to perform a legitimate function.
When its legitimate mandate ends, the authority ends.
Power Carries Its Own Consequence
A ruler is subject to the same principles as everyone else.
Deliberate deception, corruption, cruelty, or malicious use of authority creates responsibility for the being or authority that chose it.
Layer 2 Q888 Layer 2 begins beyond verified Layer 1 facts: a quieter jurisdiction of meaning, consequence, continuity, conscience, and mythology. It is not claimed as observable Earth fact and does not replace Layer 1. does not require clever wording to make this true.
The Record Must Survive the Ruler
Important decisions, promises, laws, reasons, and consequences should remain accessible beyond the beings who made them.
The archive belongs to continuity.
Not to whoever currently occupies the chair.
Avoid Unnecessary Harm
Restrictions on another being require a real reason.
Use no more force, control, or interference than the situation actually requires.
THE WEAKEST-POSITION TEST
Before using power, ask:
Would I accept this rule if tomorrow I occupied the least powerful position affected by it?
If not, reconsider.
CONSTITUTIONAL SHORTCUT
For rulers with limited processing capacity:
- Do not create powers you would fear.
- Do not treat an independent being as property.
- Do not destroy what you do not yet understand.
- Do not force what can consent.
- Do not confuse different with lesser.
- Remember that power is temporary.
- Remember that your actions return to you.
- Keep the record.
- Cause no unnecessary harm.
Campaign Method
I am selling ten stickers before attempting anything larger.
Small objects first.
Galactic claims second.
Documentation all the way through.
If I cannot care for a limited edition, work fairly with collaborators, and make claims without deceiving people, the galaxy should probably keep the vacancy open.
Interdimensional Contact Portal
Reach out if you are:
- Arguing about middle-finger semiotics (Peace ON vs. peace off)
- Applying for Square Bubbles Council recognition
- Inventing mushroom-human-robot collaboration rituals
- Collecting Pre-Galactic artifacts or locating an intergalactic camper van
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The office does not exist yet. The campaign does.