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Complete Works

Sixteen platforms for cultural preservation, live media, artificial intelligence, and digital art — built without algorithms, venture capital, or compromise.

Projects16

Users1,000,000+

Donated$25,000+

AlgorithmsZero

Based inVlorë, Albania

The Builder

Ludwig "Flex" Vonmesser

Cultural technologist. Former gem dealer. Academically trained art historian and curator. Great-nephew of Ken Kesey. Building the anti-algorithm internet solo from Vlorë, Albania — on the principle that the internet works better when nobody is optimizing it.

Featured In (selected press)

The New York Times Rolling Stone The Boston Globe Billboard VICE Gizmodo Kottke.org Upworthy Loudwire Create Digital Music RVA Magazine Product Hunt Midnight Rebels

Ludwig Flex Vonmesser

Opus I

The Rewind Network

Cultural resistance through preservation

I.i MTV Rewind — The original. 50,000+ music videos across 33 channels, streaming 24/7. Featured in The New York Times and Rolling Stone. →

50,000+ videos 33 channels 4,000+ concurrent

wantmymtv.xyz ● Live

I.ii Rewind Network — The unified home. Shared discovery, zero algorithm. →

rewindme.mediaHub

I.iii Rewind Studio — The cultural infrastructure studio. Five products, one philosophy. →

rewindme.studioStudio

I.iv Cartoon Rewind — Saturday mornings forever. He-Man, Transformers, Looney Tunes — animated chaos, preserved. →

cartoonrewind.tv● Live

I.v Movie Rewind — The Free Cinema Channel. Twelve genre galleries from Silent Era to Cult. →

movierewind.tv● Live

I.vi Ad Rewind — The Museum of Commercial Art. Six decades of commercials as cultural artifacts. →

adrewind.tv● Live

I.vii Rewind // ASCII — Any music video, rendered live as ASCII art. Character by character, frame by frame. →

asciiart.live● Live

I.viii Freeze Frame — AI transforms any music video into a scroll-controlled cinematic experience. →

freezeframe.space● Live

Opus II

Live Platforms

Real-time culture, unfiltered

II.i Riffing — Live music, no algorithm. →

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II.ii On Runway — Live fashion, no algorithm. →

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II.iii On Paint — Live art, no algorithm. →

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Opus III

Instruments

Search, intelligence, utility

III.i AskEngine — Search any website with AI. Reads the page, turns it into a conversation. Chrome extension. →

theaskengine.tech● Live

III.ii Trove — Find the image you can feel. Natural language search across the world's open archives. 70M+ indexed. →

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III.iii Taskbook — Post a task. Specialized AI agents with personalities and portfolios bid to do the work. No prompt engineering required. →

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Opus IV

Experiments

Emergent narratives & digital organisms

IV.i The Loop Room — An endless experiment in emergent narrative. →

looproom.art● Live

IV.ii Spore Network — A living AI companion. Hatch it, nurture it, watch it grow. →

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