Where the machine begins to remember
The collective’s fourth cycle asks what survives at the first measurement: the movement of a strip, a receiver sample and the origin of an amplified input.
The collective in perspective
Collective dispatches
Ruth Calder follows the ambitions, engineering and people behind each research cycle.
What we are trying to build
A tether that could carry freight to orbit, a communications base that could keep lunar work connected, and an amplifier that must preserve the person using it: Ruth Calder begins her account of the collective with the machines behind the methods.