From documentary to living systems

Affective computing between Montreal and La Paz, new worlds for Huk, and public subsidies, music interfaces, electoral data and aqueducts read as technologies of distribution.

A 3D tree with its roots in a 3D program, under the words Mocap systems for Collective Intelligences. Beside it, three smaller views: a fern, an orange tree and a white branch.

We continue our work in affective computing, exploring embodied and collective intelligence with our colleagues between Montreal and La Paz, and building new worlds for Huk, thinking about how emotion, movement, and machine perception can shape the future of storytelling.

A slide about the Comteco cooperative: two blocks of text and six pictures of crowds at night, a building, an ambulance and computer screens.

A slide that begins Cochabamba resists, with six pictures: performers on a stage with projections, and people in the street with umbrellas and a red Comteco banner.

Seven pictures: a hand and a face covered in tracking lines, dancers in bright clothes, and a figure drawn in lines in front of a fire.

Weaving the economic, the sensory, the political, and the elemental. We’re seeing that public subsidies, music interfaces, electoral data, and aqueducts are all technologies of distribution: of food, of sound, of representation, of water • sep/2025