Zane Kind is an artist and technologist in New York City ☮︎

zanekindness AT gmail DOT com

Current

Founding Silk, a new curated internet.

Past

Bachelor's in Communication & Media at Stanford University '24

Design intern at Dreamcrew, Drake's personal creative agency

Creative intern at Chiat\Day, celebrated global ad agency

Research and development for Nike, Nocta, Arc'teryx, Louis Vuitton, Punkandyo...

Founder of ACG Archive

Essays / Talks

Congrats, You're a Curator (2025)

Box Theory (2024)

On Behalf of Your Creative Identity (2023)

Redesigning the Internet's Culture Machine (2022)

I'm Joining a Frat with Buckminster Fuller (2022)

Press

Tasteland Pod: Meet the Silkers (2025)

The Curated Internet: Zane Kind on Weaving a New Web with Silk (2023)

Usurpator Pod: Silk with Zane Kind (2023)

Silknode — Shifting Cultural Power Structures (2022)

Trekking the Trail of the ACG Archive (2021)

The All Condition Legacy (2020)

Syllabus

The Making of a Counter Culture (1969), by Theodore Roszak

From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006), by Fred Turner

Steve Jobs (2011), by Walter Isaacson

The Attention Merchants (2016), by Tim Wu

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), by Tom Wolfe

The Alchemist (1988), by Paulo Coelho

Brazen Child (2022), by Dyltwosix

333 (2020), by Bladee

Psykos (2024), by Yung Lean and Bladee

Memoryland (2021), by CFCF

Kid A (2000), by Radiohead

Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Dir. Godfrey Reggio

Her (2013), Dir. Spike Jonze

Wall-E (2008), Dir. Andrew Stanton

I love that you're on my website with me right now.

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Last updated July 1st, 2026