About

Anthony James Padavano Creative Technologist Portfolio New York City

I'm Anthony James Padavano — a creative technologist and systems architect based in New York City. I build autonomous creative systems and treat their governance as an artistic medium.

My work sits at the intersection of software engineering, generative art, and institutional design. Over the past 10+ years I've moved across multimedia production, digital marketing, higher education, and — most recently — the design of large-scale creative infrastructure. The throughline is a belief that how you organize and govern creative work is as important as the work itself.

I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University and a BA in English Literature from CUNY. I'm a Meta-certified Full-Stack Developer and hold Google Professional Certificates in UX Design, Digital Marketing, and Project Management. These days I spend most of my time writing Python and TypeScript, orchestrating multi-agent AI systems, and building the governance infrastructure that lets creative projects sustain themselves.

The Eight-Organ System

Most creative portfolios are flat — a list of projects with screenshots. Mine is an operating system.

The eight-organ system is a coordinated infrastructure spanning 81 repositories across 8 GitHub organizations, with ~339K words of public documentation. Each "organ" handles a different function:

I Theoria — Ontology, recursion, epistemic engines
II Poiesis — Generative art, performance, experiential systems
III Ergon — Products, platforms, deployed commerce
IV Taxis — Orchestration, governance, agent swarms
V Logos — Essays, public process, building in public
VI Koinonia — Community, salons, collaborative infrastructure
VII Kerygma — Distribution, amplification, audience
∞ Meta — The system that holds the system

Work flows through a pipeline: theory becomes art, art becomes product, product gets governed, governance gets documented, documentation builds community, community amplifies. The meta-organ — with its machine-readable registry, dependency validation, and promotion state machines — is itself the primary artifact.

This isn't project-based art. It's infrastructure-as-practice. The choice of how work moves between organs is as important as any individual output. You can read more in the essays on building in public.

Practice

Discipline: Systems Art / Creative Technology / Governance Design

Medium: Software infrastructure, governance protocols, public documentation, generative systems

Influences: Julian Oliver's critical engineering, Nicky Case's explorable explanations, Hundred Rabbits' sustainable tools — practitioners who treat infrastructure, protocols, and documentation as primary creative outputs.

Get in Touch

I'm open to collaboration, consulting, and full-time opportunities in creative technology, systems architecture, and AI/ML engineering.