Who is speaking?

An authored identity is a position from which to make work about a real condition. You will speak from it for a month, and people who live inside that condition may stand in front of the work.

• It answers to the world. Start from a condition you can point to with evidence, not from a character you would like to play.
• It is not a costume. No mascots, puns or jokes, and no escape from the present. Displacement is a way to see a real situation more clearly.
• It is not you under another name. Its distance from you is the point. You will write down where you differ.

Work through Parts A–F alone in the morning, do the interview in G after lunch, then H with Codex. Your answers save in this browser as you type. When you're done, use Copy as identity.md at the bottom of the page and paste the result into your repo, or print the page and write by hand.

Bring forward the condition from Day 2 behind the candidate you are keeping.

The identity stands somewhere other than where you stand. Mark the coordinate that has moved: one, or at most two.

Facts make the identity specific enough to question, and to disagree with.

A position is defined as much by what it turns away from as by what it looks at.

Beliefs are what the identity holds to be true. Rules are what its work must therefore do. In Week 2 the rules become constraints in code.

Be honest about the gap between you and the identity. You'll close part of it with research tomorrow.

Twenty minutes each way. Your partner asks; you answer in the first person, as the identity. Don't break position to explain.

1. Walk me through yesterday, hour by hour.
2. Where does your work go when it is finished, and who sees it?
3. Who would disagree with you, and what would they say?
4. What has working this way cost you?
5. What would you never make, even if you were paid to?
6. What do you need the world to change?

Your partner fills in the next two fields, in their own words.

Ask Codex for computational metaphors, not code. Paste your Parts A, B and E into the prompt where marked.

I am developing an authored identity for a generative art studio. It speaks from a real condition and a specific position. Here are its condition, position, beliefs and rules:

[paste Parts A, B and E]

Don't write any code. Propose five computational metaphors for how this identity might make work. For each one, give:
- the process (for example erosion, a survey grid, recursion, a flow field, an agent that forages),
- what in the condition it stands for,
- one way it could fail to carry the identity's position.

Then ask me two questions about the identity that would sharpen these metaphors.

Before 3:30, check the identity against these. If one fails, go back to the part it points to.

Critique 1 on Day 5 asks: Who is speaking? What do they care about? Would this voice matter outside the studio? This worksheet is your first answer.

An abridged sheet, to show the level of specificity expected. Don't borrow its condition.