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ARTCYP Contemporary art in Cyprus

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About ARTCYP

What this is, how it is built, and what it does not claim.

ARTCYP publishes two things. The first is a guide to contemporary art institutions in Cyprus: real organisations, each entry checked by hand against a public source and carrying that source and the date it was checked. The second is a catalogue of forty plates generated by this software from numeric seeds.

Every plate is generated from a single 32-bit seed. The same seed produces the same drawing on the server, in the feed and on your screen, so a plate is reproducible from its catalogue number alone and no image file is stored anywhere. Plates are rendered as SVG on the server and upgraded to an animated canvas in your browser only if you have scripting enabled and have not asked for reduced motion.

Editorial note

Nothing on this site is invented except the pictures, and those are generated rather than imagined. There are no fictional artists, exhibitions, venues, curators, prizes or news items here, and there is no invented byline anywhere.

The catalogue plates have no author. Nobody made them in the sense the word usually carries: a program was written and a machine ran it. So the catalogue records the system, the seed and the palette, and does not record an artist, a year of making, an edition or a statement of intent, because there was no maker to have one. The structured data on each plate page names artcyp.com as the copyright holder and deliberately carries no creator, because copyright and authorship are different claims.

The guide describes real organisations, so it is held to a stricter rule. Every entry names the public source it was checked against and the date, and asserts only what kind of organisation it is and where. It states no opening hours and makes no programme claims, because those go stale and a stale claim about somebody else's institution misrepresents them. Entries past 180 days are flagged on the page rather than quietly presented as current.

Anything current about another organisation is relayed, not written. Where an institution in the guide publishes a feed, this site reads it and passes on the headline, the link and the publication date, with the HTML entities decoded and nothing else changed. It is never summarised, re-headlined or translated, and it is never described as open, running or now showing. A feed entry is an announcement with a date, and that is how it is shown. Items expire after 180 days so the wire empties rather than going stale, and every source's last-reached time is published on the wire page. Sources are polled once every six hours with a conditional request and an identifying user agent, so any operator who would rather we did not can stop us with one line in their robots file. Only a headline, a link and a date are taken, never the article body. Relayed headlines are excluded from this site's own feeds, so nobody else's words are ever syndicated under this masthead. The fixed list:

Cypriot institutions

Modern and contemporary art press

Images and credits

Every image here is generated by this software from a numeric seed: the catalogue plates, the social cards and the site mark alike. There are no photographs, no stock imagery, no scraped or third-party artwork, no AI-image output and no licensed assets. Because they are this site's own work they are marked as such: © 2026 artcyp.com, carried in the SVG metadata of any plate you download, in the footer strip of every social card, and in the structured data on every catalogue page. Typography uses the faces already on your device; the small pixel face on the cards was drawn for this project. Full detail, including the licences of every dependency, is in CREDITS.md in the source.

Privacy

This site makes no third-party requests. There are no analytics, no embedded fonts, no tag managers and no content delivery network in front of these pages. Nothing on the public pages sets a cookie. The feed relay runs on the server on a timer; it is not triggered by your visit and your visit is not part of it.

Reactions on a plate are stored as counts. No identifier, address or fingerprint is attached to them, which is why you can press the same button twice and why we are fine with that.

Server logs record errors, not requests. The path you asked for is not written down.

Numbers

Feeds

Everything this site writes is syndicated: RSS 2.0, Atom and JSON Feed 1.1. The pulse stream is server-sent events if you would rather watch than subscribe, and the guide is available as JSON.