CHRIS HAY

IDEAS · SYSTEMS · OBJECTS / LONDON · 2026

Chris Hay in the studio · excerpt from MCP Apps
Chris HayLondon · 2026

A house for
ideas, systems
and objects.

Building things to find out how they work.

Latest notebook
Chris Hay · Notebook / excerpt

It wrote the right address. Only the link was opened.

Two correct addresses. No request reached the server. As a hyperlink, the same destination was opened twice.

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Same destination.
One became a link.

Plain-text path

0 / 2

Hyperlink

2 / 2

Code-page requests received by the server.

Both linked requests returned the exact code. Two trials per condition, one host. The original failure stands; the blocking component remains unknown.

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Selected research

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Cell80 / Working note

Can you name the mutation that changed a world?

One birth. Two recorded histories.

Recorded world at tick 1,080: 201 organisms; 35.3% carry program 33.
Observed history35.3% carry program 33
Recorded world at tick 1,080: 108 organisms; 7.4% carry program 33.
Program change undone7.4% carry program 33

Ongoing work

Chris’s black Swanwick frames with amber lenses resting on a pale wooden surface.
My Swanwicks / Photograph by Chris Hay

01 / Seeing / A personal collection

Objects
I return to.

Always sunglasses outside. Usually Swanwicks indoors.

Inside the collection

Systems & tools