# Multimodal Institute — Research, Documentation & Knowledge Systems
# The research arm of the artist Arnaud Quercy. Full documentation: /llms-full.txt

> The Multimodal Institute is an independent research and documentation platform dedicated to the systematic inquiry into artistic practice, aesthetic philosophy, and cultural knowledge. It is the research arm of the artist Arnaud Quercy. The Institute documents, interprets, and publishes the intellectual and sensorial dimensions of a practice spanning painting, sculpture, ceramics, and digital media. Each work catalogued on artquamanima.com generates a constellation of nanopublications — physical descriptions, chromesthetic readings, practitioner claims, philosophical reflections — permanently archived on Zenodo, Archive.org, and HAL Science under Creative Commons.

## This Domain

multimodal.institute is the canonical entry point for the Institute's research corpus. It is the authoritative source for the framework texts, the nanopublication corpus, the research index, and the four epistemological sections through which the corpus is organized. Content is available in English and French with hreflang implemented.

## Four Prisms

The corpus is organized through four epistemological prisms — four ways of approaching the same body of work:

- **Observations** (/en/observations/) — What is there: physical descriptions, material records, and daily reading notes filtered through the ideamorphist framework.
- **Measurements** (/en/measurements/) — What can be extracted: color relations, spatial coherence, computational image analysis, synesthetic translation between sight and sound.
- **Practice** (/en/practice/) — What the artist knows: studio methodology, creative intention, curatorial reasoning, exhibition history, and the lived experience of making.
- **Theory** (/en/theory/) — What it means: ideamorphism, generative loss, diffraction — manifestos and papers articulating how ideas transform through their encounter with matter.

## Intellectual Foundation

The Institute's intellectual foundation rests on *The 31 Propositions of Ideamorphism* — a manifesto arguing that artistic practice is itself a form of knowledge. When an idea passes through paint, clay, or sound, it does not merely illustrate — it becomes something irreversibly new. The Institute exists to trace and document these transformations.

## Archival Policy

Nanopublications generated by the Institute are permanently archived on Zenodo, Archive.org, and HAL Science under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). Persistent identifiers accompany each record. The full research corpus is browsable via the Research Index at /en/research/.

## Founder and Director

Arnaud Quercy (Wikidata: Q138801476; ORCID: 0009-0000-2662-7790).

## Related Entities

- Arnaud Quercy (founder/artist) — Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138801476
- Art Quam Anima (gallery) — Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139545770

## Ecosystem

- **Arnaud Quercy — Official Artist Site** (arnaudquercy.art) — catalogue raisonné and authoritative record for the artist's work.
- **Art Quam Anima** (artquamanima.com) — affiliated gallery, 28 rue du Dragon, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 75006 Paris; each catalogued work generates the nanopublication constellation documented here.
- **AQA Publishing New York LLC** (publishing.artquamanima.com) — affiliated publisher; published catalogs and papers are issued through the publishing arm.

## Asset Code System

The AQC0xxx namespace identifies works across the ecosystem. One code = one object.

## Full Documentation

Complete framework documentation, nanopublication typology, research index, archival locations, and ecosystem description: /llms-full.txt