H11T
- Anna Lilli Garai
- Nov 11
- 2 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
H11T is an artist working in the U.S., known for making clean, minimal works that reference modernism and science fiction. He focuses on how artworks might be made and preserved in the far future, thinking about durability, materials, and long-term use. Many of his pieces take the form of precise, structured compositions that feel archival or engineered, as if they were built to last. H11T pays attention to clarity and reduction, removing anything unnecessary from the image. The work treats art as something physical and enduring.
Q: Your work moves between minimalism, modernism, and sci-fi. What connects those worlds for you?
A: Entropy reduction. Manufacturing clarity from chaos.
Q: When you imagine art a thousand years from now, what part fascinates you most — the making or the system behind it?
A: The end product. The technologically advanced artifacts of the future, that will be defined as “Fine Art”.
Q: You mention fabrication, transport, and replacement. Do you think of art as something that moves or something that endures?
A: Both. Art is transported from the origin of its materials, to the location of its genesis, and subsequently to many locations, known and unknown, over its lifetime.
How many centuries will the paintings of today last, compared to artwork fabricated from more robust materials?
The next millennia of art may be defined by new material design choices that afford more transportability, repairability, and replaceability.
Q: You talk about the aesthetics of the future. How do you notice those shifts happening already?
A: Seldomly. The year 2025 looks almost identical, visually, to the year 2000. Graphic design has been in decline since the advent of desktop publishing in the 1980s, and it’s rare to see anything truly futuristic in the visual arts.
Q: How do mass media and image circulation change what it means to make something original today?
A: More thought and effort are required to generate something that is novel, visually.
Q: Do you see your works more as physical objects or as data with a lifespan of their own?
A: “HI-TEK ARTIFACTS” are physical objects, with corresponding documentation proving authenticity.
Whether or not the documentation will be meaningful thousands of years from now remains to be seen.