Futures Lab

Intent Origin is a speculative prototype that documents the sources, tools, collaborators, and versions that shaped a finished piece, while distinguishing between what can be established and what a creator declares.

I tested it on a song I made this year. The experiment became a way of asking what a file can actually remember about the creative process behind it, and what gets lost.

Two years ago, a friend asked me to help recreate the voice of her cousin, who had died, so his voice could be heard at his sister’s wedding. She wrote the message herself; AI supplied her cousin’s voice.

That experience stayed with me. For my second Futures Lab experiment, I used it to explore what happens when a decision about your voice has to be interpreted by people living in futures you could never have anticipated.

In Case of Voice is a speculative prototype built around a single voice clause: one document, four future requests, and a series of increasingly difficult questions about memory, inference, ownership, and who gets to decide what you meant.