Handbook · 17 · Days 16–17 · Srishti Manipal Interim 2026

Card and statement

Artist statement and identity card. The card tells a visitor who is speaking; the statement tells them what they're looking at. Build both here and print them at exhibition size.

seed statement · depth 5

Card draft: Day 5 · Critique 1
Statement: Day 16 · Mon 14 Dec
Card final: Day 17 · Tue 15 Dec
Card size: A6 · 105 × 148 mm
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The identity card

Fill in the fields; the card and the label redraw as you type. A draft is due at Critique 1, the final on Day 17. Print at 100% scale on card stock.

Identity name

Practice one line

Origin

Coordinates where it stands

Condition

Position one sentence it would sign

Medium and materials

Title of the work

Dimensions

Seed

Authored by your name

Card · A6 · 105 × 148 mm

An Atlas of Elsewhere · Identity

Origin
Stands
Condition
Works in

Computationally Yours

Label · 105 × 50 mm

, 2026

Seed · Authored by

The QR code sits on the label or beside it; make it on the QR codes page. Fields save in this browser only, so copy what matters into identity.md.

The statement

Day 16. 100–150 words for visitors, in final-statement.md. Where the manifesto is the identity speaking, the statement is you, introducing the work.

Manifesto

The identity speaks

First person, as the identity. A position, refusals, rules.

Statement

You introduce the work

Third person about the identity. What a visitor is looking at, how it was made, why.

final-statement.md

# [Title of the work]

[Identity name] is [practice], [one phrase on the position and the condition].

[What the visitor is looking at: the object, its material, its scale.]

[How it was made: the system's key rule in plain words, and the data or input it reads.]

[Why: what the work asks the visitor to see or reconsider.]

[Your name], 2026. Made in Computationally Yours: Out of One's Place.

Deficit Survey, Tank No. 14

Example

Anjana Rao is a surveyor of tank beds, measuring the irrigation tanks Bengaluru has built over since the 1970s.

This A2 pen plot is a survey of one lost tank. Each row of lines is a year of rainfall from 1990 to 2024; the heavier the line, the greater that year's deficit. Nothing is drawn outside the tank's recorded boundary.

The plotter drew every line from a system that reads the rainfall record and obeys three rules from Rao's manifesto. Its heaviest passes put the most ink where the most water is missing.

The work asks what a map of the city would look like if it recorded loss as carefully as ownership.