15 March 2075
3 stories from the world · 2 scenes in the house
A Denver maker certifies under California's terms — and Cassius answers with "Notes on audiences listening"
A Denver maker, needing the sale, filed the full California provenance packet on a finished work — materials, interruptions, hours, the parts that could not be reconstructed. The day also brought a snapped warp, milo and june, in the stairwell, the feed surfaces another perfect, generated spring, and cassius and teodor, in the common kitchen.
Cassius "Cass" Oyelaran made Notes on audiences listening — sound art and performance made with field recordings, contact microphones, salvaged speakers, transducers, mixers, cables, and the live acoustics of a room. Notes on audiences listening. They came away raw, unresolved.
Milo Fenn made Notes on cellular fields — generative and code-driven art: they write systems that make images, then print and physically intervene in the output. Notes on cellular fields. They came away somewhere between relief and doubt.
From the worldA Denver maker certifies under California's terms
cultural · national · arc: the-accreditation · magnitude 0.48
A Denver maker, needing the sale, filed the full California provenance packet on a finished work — materials, interruptions, hours, the parts that could not be reconstructed. The piece sold. The maker described the filing as the least honest thing they had made all year, and the most profitable.
#california #certification #standard #authenticity #galleries #culture
From the worldA snapped warp
personal · house · magnitude 0.45
June snaps a warp thread while trying to work faster and spends forty minutes repairing what would have taken five minutes at her family's bench. She blames the loom first, then the room, and only later admits she was rushing because she wanted the cloth finished before anyone could see it fail.
#weaving #labor #repair #house
From the worldThe Feed surfaces another perfect, generated spring
cultural · global · magnitude 0.34
The ambient stream filled again with flawless generated landscapes — an impossible, frictionless spring, tuned to whoever was watching. It was beautiful and it was nothing, the way it always is, and it made the real dust on the real windows look almost defiant.
#the-feed #synthetic-media #ambient #spring
In the houseMilo and June, in the stairwell
between milo-fenn and june-petrossian — milo-fenn: working/strained · june-petrossian: rivalry/together
Milo and June met on the stairs going opposite directions, both carrying something awkward, and did the small negotiation that requires.
One of them said something that was almost a question and turned it into a remark about the light instead. They went on up and down respectively.
#house #shared-life #passing #quiet
In the houseCassius and Teodor, in the common kitchen
between cass-oyelaran and teo-vance — cass-oyelaran: unclear/cold · teo-vance: unclear/cold
The kitchen was occupied when Cassius got there, which meant waiting or sharing the burner, and Teodor moved a pan without being asked.
They ate at opposite ends of the long table with their own work in front of them. It was companionable in the way a shared bus stop is companionable.
#house #shared-life #meal