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lacma 2026: anchor timeline+budget on 2027 Symposium & 2028 Demo Day
The 2026 Unframed announcement specifies a biennial structure with two
public events — a 2027 Symposium for works-in-development and a 2028 Demo
Day for completed projects. The original proposal had a generic 5-phase
timeline that didn't map to either. This change rewrites both timeline and
budget to lock on those events.
Timeline is now 5 phases:
Fall 26 → Spring 27 Hardware + curriculum
Spring – Summer 27 Pre-Symposium: pilot workshops + v0 build guide
Fall 27 2027 SYMPOSIUM (WIP demo, public workshop)
Winter 27 – Sum 28 Full install, kiosk hardening, translation
Fall 28 2028 DEMO DAY (multi-station premiere, v1.0)
Budget restructured accordingly — adds a "2027 Symposium contribution"
line ($2,500, travel + cohort USB kit + demo station) and a "2028 Demo
Day premiere" line ($3,000, install setup + public program support).
Artist fee bumped to reflect 24-month duration; platform-dev contract
line dropped. New total $47k (was $43k) with $3k of headroom under the
$50k cap.
Also:
- Added grants/lacma-2026/art-tech-lab-recipients.md — compiled
reference of all 45 Lab recipients 2014–2023 with descriptions and
where AC fits among them. Casey Reas (2023) is the nearest language-
as-art precedent, and he's @jeffrey's current UCLA Author-in-Residence
host — a direct lineage link worth naming.
- Updated aesthetic.computer/lacma-2026 landing page with new Calendar
section (Symposium + Demo Day anchored) and "This Lab's Lineage"
section surfacing 8 past recipients the proposal is in dialogue with.
Copied latest PDF into public/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Implementation Plan
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| **1. Hardware Refinement** | Fall 2026 | Expand AC Native hardware compatibility; develop multi-piece boot menu; optimize for 5+ laptop models commonly available at institutions |
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| **2. Workshop Development** | Winter 2026–27 | Design KidLisp workshop curriculum (3 difficulty levels); test with pilot group; produce printed reference cards |
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| **3. Installation Design** | Spring 2027 | Design multi-station installation layout; produce 20+ bootable USB drives; develop kiosk-mode security for public use |
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| **4. Public Programs** | Summer–Fall 2027 | Deliver 4–6 workshops at LACMA; install and maintain public AC Native stations; collect participant feedback |
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| **5. Documentation & Release** | Winter 2027–28 | Publish complete build guide, workshop curriculum, and hardware compatibility list; present at LACMA Biennial Symposium (2027) |
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This proposal aligns to the Lab's new biennial calendar: a working-prototype milestone at the **2027 Symposium** and a completed public premiere at the **2028 Demo Day**. The cohort structure (3–5 recipients plus invitational projects) is well-suited to this work — AC Native's USB-bootable format means other cohort artists can bring their own pieces to the system and cross-pollinate at the Symposium without waiting for Demo Day. Casey Reas's 2023 Lab project *METAVASARELY and An Empty Room* is a near-lineage precedent; Reas is also Jeffrey's Author-in-Residence host at UCLA during this application year.
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| **1. Hardware & Curriculum** | Fall 2026 – Spring 2027 | Expand AC Native compatibility to 5+ laptop models; build multi-piece boot menu; design the 3-level KidLisp workshop curriculum; produce printed reference cards (extending the sosoft card template used at UCLA). |
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| **2. Pre-Symposium Workshops** | Spring – Summer 2027 | Run 2 pilot workshops at LACMA; assemble a prototype multi-station installation; publish v0 of the open-source build guide. |
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| **3. 2027 Symposium (WIP)** | Fall 2027 | Live AC Native demonstration: visitors and cohort artists boot the OS on their own laptops from USB. Public KidLisp workshop in the museum. Talk / in-conversation on generative computing, situated alongside the 2023 cohort. |
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| **4. Full Installation + Workshops** | Winter 2027 – Summer 2028 | Kiosk-mode hardening; 20+ take-home USB drives; 4 additional workshops; complete documentation; translate workshop curriculum (EN + ES, matching AC's translation pipeline). |
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| **5. 2028 Demo Day (premiere)** | Fall 2028 | Public premiere of the multi-station AC Native installation in the LACMA galleries. Open-source v1.0 release with full build pipeline, hardware compatibility matrix, and workshop curriculum for other institutions to adopt. Public programs introducing the system to teachers, museum educators, and other artists. |
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| Artist fee (24 months) | $20,000 |
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| Artist fee (24 months, Fall 2026 – Fall 2028) | $22,000 |
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| Studio hardware (dev machines, displays) | $3,500 |
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| Installation laptops (5 × $400 refurbished) | $2,000 |
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| NuPhy analog keyboards for installation (5 × $120) | $600 |
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| USB drives, cables, peripherals | $500 |
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| Studio hardware (dev machines, displays) | $4,000 |
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| NuPhy analog keyboards for installation (5 × $120) | $600 |
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| Installation fabrication (furniture, mounts) | $2,500 |
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| Workshop materials (printed guides, KidLisp reference cards) | $1,200 |
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| **2027 Symposium contribution** (travel, cohort demo USB kit, on-site demo station) | $2,500 |
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| **2028 Demo Day premiere** (install setup, public-program support) | $3,000 |
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| Server + compute infrastructure (hosting, CDN, CI/CD) | $3,500 |
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| Platform development (contract engineering) | $3,000 |
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| Contingency (10%) | $3,900 |
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| **Total Requested** | **$43,000** |
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| Documentation production (video, photography, translation) | $2,000 |
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| Contingency (10%) | $3,700 |
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| **Total Requested** | **$47,000** |
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# LACMA Art + Technology Lab — Funded Projects Reference (2014–2023)
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> Internal homework file for the 2026 proposal. Sources: [lacma.org/lab/archive](https://www.lacma.org/lab/archive), [unframed.lacma.org](https://unframed.lacma.org), [artlab.hyundai.com](https://artlab.hyundai.com/project/lacma-art-technology-lab-recipients), Unframed annual announcements.
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## Cohort structure (from the 2026 announcement)
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- **3–5 recipients per open-call cycle**, plus up to 2 invitational projects (which may respond to recent tech developments or extend prior recipients' work).
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- **Biennial cycles** from 2026 forward.
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- **2027 Symposium** — works-in-development event. Artist demonstrations, performances, talks. *Our proposal should set a credible WIP deliverable for this date.*
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| **Casey Reas** | *METAVASARELY and An Empty Room* | Computational/generative systems. **Jeffrey's current UCLA Author-in-Residence host.** Processing co-creator. Direct precedent for AC's language-as-art stance. |
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| Tristan Duke | *Glacial Optics: Cold Cutting Edge* | Ice as optical material — innovative freezing and cutting. |
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| Haleigh Nickerson | *Sojourner's Rovers* | Technology + exploration via space-rover navigation systems. |
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| Patty Chang & David Kelley | *Stray Dog Hydrophobia* | Animal behavior + technological interfaces. Image used as 2026 announcement hero. |
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| Gala Porras-Kim | *Expansive Data Fields* | Data collection + environmental systems + ceremonial offerings. |
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| Daniel R. Small | *Techne* | Suburban infrastructure + spatial technology through urban grid systems. |
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| Lauren Lee McCarthy | *Auto* | Autonomous-vehicle testing; human–machine interaction in parking environments. |
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| Kelly Akashi | *Fissures* | Body + form through sculptural tech-informed approaches. |
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| Nancy Baker Cahill | *Substrate* | Mycelium + biological systems as sculptural/technological material. |
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| Jaqueline Kiyomi Gork & Rhett LaRue | *Inhabit360* | Immersive VR installation; spatial experience. |
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| American Artist | *Collective Head* | Video-based; identity + digital representation systems. |
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| Lawrence Lek | *Death Drive* | Digital film; artificial intelligence + speculative narratives. |
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| Lukas Avendaño, EYIBRA, NNUX, Oswaldo Erreve | *MUXX* | Collaborative multimedia: sound, visual, digital culture. |
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| Matthew Angelo Harrison | *The Consequence of Platforms* | Digital platforms, social and material impacts. |
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| Kyle McDonald, Daisy Mahaina, Dr. Marianne George | *Te Lapa: Polynesian Navigation Illuminated* | Digital simulation of traditional Polynesian wayfinding. Another AC-adjacent precedent (McDonald is a code-artist peer). |
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| Virginia San Fratello & Ronald Rael | *MUD Frontiers / Zoquetes Fronterizos* | 3D-printed architecture; border landscapes; sustainable materials. |
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| Agnieszka Kurant | *Artificial Society / Collective Tamagotchi* | AI + collective behavior via digital creatures. |
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| Ebru Kurbak | *Reinventing the Spindle* | Textile production in micro/low gravity; space colonization critique. |
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| **Rashaad Newsome** | *Being* | Social humanoid robot; AI + rights/bias/safety. The most-visible recent Lab project. |
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| Eun Young Park | *Radical Soft Robots* | Soft robotics from silicone/fabric; 1960s utopian inflatable references. |
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| Sarah Rosalena Brady | *Exit Points* | ML + weaving; feminist/decolonial performance. |
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| Tom Sachs | *Transcendence Sphere* | VR + physical effects (massage, fans, misting). |
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| Tahir Hemphill | *Implications of a Rap Neural Network* | AI trained on hip-hop; cultural production examined through AI. |
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| Jen Liu | *Pink Slime Caesar Shift* | Genetic engineering + labor activism; synthetic meat + factory workers. |
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| Sarah Rara | *Ellipsoid Body* | Video imagery + human navigation (w/ Caltech neurobiology). |
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| Julia Christensen | *Upgrade Available* | Multi-generational tech as lens for human–technology relations. |
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| Carl Cheng | *Tar Pool Project* | Tar as material; LACMA-site natural phenomenon. 3rd phase of 1990-origin research. |
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| Curtis Tamm | *Tympanic Tether* | Audio-visual research in geologically active regions; real-time sonification of disasters. |
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| Stan Douglas | *Helen Lawrence* | "Live cinema" — stage actors composited into virtual sets in real time. |
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| Nana Oforiatta-Ayim | *Cultural Encyclopaedia* | Pan-African cultural encyclopedia. |
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| Tavares Strachan | *Lift Off* | Glass rockets powered by locally sourced alternative fuels. |
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- **AI / ML** (Newsome, Kurant, Hemphill, Liu, Thater's robots, Brady's ML weaving)
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- **Speculative hardware / custom-built instruments** (Sachs, Rüst's pie-chart robot, Park's soft robots, Strachan's rockets)
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1. **Generative-art-as-language** — direct dialogue with **Reas** (2023). Our KidLisp is to Aesthetic Computer what Processing was to the early 2000s art-code scene. We are building the language *and* the runtime *and* the publishing pipeline together.
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2. **Custom hardware as creative instrument** — kindred to **Sachs** (*Transcendence Sphere*) and **Rüst** (pie-chart robot): a physical object that is itself the artwork, not a platform for delivering something else. AC Native's USB-bootable OS is the instrument.
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3. **AI as collaborator, not spectacle** — kindred to **Newsome** (*Being*) and **Hemphill** (*Rap Neural Network*). Our difference: we're not making an AI artwork, we're making **a creative OS that has Anthropic's Claude Code as a native command**. This dovetails with LACMA's Anthropic partnership in a way no prior Lab project has.
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4. **Reproducible + public** — kindred to **de la Peña** (VR for public platforms) and **McDonald** (*Te Lapa*, public science tools). AC is designed from the start as a distributable USB instrument + hands-on workshops, not a one-off installation.
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This proposal aligns to the Lab's new biennial calendar: a working-prototype milestone at the \textbf{2027 Symposium} and a completed public premiere at the \textbf{2028 Demo Day}. The cohort structure (3--5 recipients plus invitational projects) is well-suited to this work---AC Native's USB-bootable format means other cohort artists can bring their own pieces to the system, and we can cross-pollinate at Symposium without waiting for Demo Day. Casey Reas's 2023 Lab project \textit{METAVASARELY and An Empty Room} is a near-lineage precedent; Reas is also my Author-in-Residence host at UCLA during this application year.
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\textbf{Fall 2026 -- Spring 2027} & \textbf{Hardware \& Curriculum}---Expand AC Native compatibility to 5+ laptop models; build multi-piece boot menu; design the 3-level KidLisp workshop curriculum; produce printed reference cards (extending the sosoft card template used at UCLA). \\
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\textbf{Fall 2027} & \textbf{2027 Symposium (works-in-development)}---Live AC Native demonstration: visitors (and cohort artists) boot the OS on their own laptops from a USB stick. Public KidLisp workshop in the museum. Talk / in-conversation on generative computing, situated alongside the 2023 cohort's work. \\
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\textbf{Winter 2027 -- Summer 2028} & \textbf{Full Installation + Extended Workshops}---Kiosk-mode hardening; 20+ bootable USB drives for visitor take-home; 4 additional workshops; complete documentation; translate workshop curriculum (English + Spanish, matching AC's existing translation pipeline). \\
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\textbf{Fall 2028} & \textbf{2028 Demo Day (completed project)}---Public premiere of the multi-station AC Native installation in the LACMA galleries. Open-source v1.0 release with full build pipeline, hardware compatibility matrix, and workshop curriculum available for other institutions to adopt. Public programs introducing the system to teachers, museum educators, and other artists. \\
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<h2><span class="ord">§</span>Calendar<span class="count">aligned to LACMA's biennial cadence</span></h2>
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<p style="color:var(--dim);margin-bottom:1em">The Lab's new structure sets two public events: a <em style="color:var(--pink);font-style:normal">2027 Symposium</em> (works-in-development) and a <em style="color:var(--pink);font-style:normal">2028 Demo Day</em> (completed projects). This proposal anchors each phase to one of those events rather than a vague "final show."</p>
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<div class="feat"><b>Fall 2026 → Spring 2027</b>Hardware & curriculum: expand AC Native to 5+ laptop models, build multi-piece boot menu, design 3-level KidLisp workshop curriculum, print reference cards (extending the sosoft card template used at UCLA).</div>
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<div class="feat" style="border-left-color:var(--pink)"><b style="color:var(--pink)">Fall 2027 · 2027 Symposium</b>Live AC Native demonstration — visitors and cohort artists boot the OS on their own laptops from a USB stick. Public KidLisp workshop in the museum. In-conversation on generative computing, situated alongside the 2023 cohort (Reas, Duke, Nickerson, Chang+Kelley, Porras-Kim).</div>
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<p style="color:var(--dim);margin-bottom:1em">A few Art + Technology Lab projects that mark out the territory this proposal enters. Full reference list in the <a href="https://github.com/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer/blob/main/grants/lacma-2026/art-tech-lab-recipients.md">repo homework file</a>.</p>
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<div class="row"><div class="who">Casey Reas · 2023</div><div class="claim"><em>METAVASARELY and An Empty Room</em>. Computational + generative systems. Reas is also my Author-in-Residence host at UCLA in 2026 — the closest direct precedent for AC's language-as-art stance.</div></div>
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<div class="row"><div class="who">Kyle McDonald, Daisy Mahaina, Dr. Marianne George · 2020</div><div class="claim"><em>Te Lapa: Polynesian Navigation Illuminated</em>. Digital simulation documenting traditional Polynesian wayfinding. A public-tool precedent — code released so researchers elsewhere can use it.</div></div>
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<div class="row"><div class="who">Rashaad Newsome · 2019</div><div class="claim"><em>Being</em>. Social humanoid robot confronting AI's questions around rights, bias, safety. AC's position: <em>AI inside a creative instrument</em> is a different axis from AI-as-artwork.</div></div>
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<div class="row"><div class="who">Tom Sachs · 2019</div><div class="claim"><em>Transcendence Sphere</em>. VR synced with massage chairs, fans, misting systems. A kinfolk: art as custom-built physical instrument, not art via a software platform.</div></div>
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<div class="row"><div class="who">Sarah Rosalena Brady · 2019</div><div class="claim"><em>Exit Points</em>. ML + weaving; feminist/decolonial code-as-performance. Precedent for publishing code-art with a political thesis.</div></div>
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<div class="row"><div class="who">Tahir Hemphill · 2018</div><div class="claim"><em>Implications of a Rap Neural Network</em>. AI trained on hip-hop; cultural production examined through AI. The honest Anthropic-adjacent precedent for AI-as-cultural-instrument.</div></div>
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<div class="row"><div class="who">Julia Christensen · 2017</div><div class="claim"><em>Upgrade Available</em>. Multi-generational tech as lens for human-technology relations. Our OS-strip-down answers her same question from the opposite direction.</div></div>
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<div class="row"><div class="who">Annina Rüst · 2014</div><div class="claim"><em>A Piece of the Pie Chart</em>. A robot that transfers data-pie-charts onto edible pies. Inaugural cohort. Instrument-as-artwork pedigree — AC Native descends from this posture.</div></div>
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