9 We created this archive to find Player X. We also created this archive so you could see what Speculation was, is, and might become. These are some remaining splinters, tattered ruins of a vast mapping. Some parts belong to the past, some to a future that will never be, and still others to a future that is still possible. This archive is not a cemetery. It is not a collection. It does not replicate. It does not proliferate. It is an ongoing speculation. It is a black swan. It is an emergence. It is a field of possibility.

It engages. It enrages. It seduces. It diffuses.

It absorbs. It recuperates. It derives. It survives.

It responds. It improvises. It voodoos. It jazzes.

I design. You wonder. We network. So play.





 

 

Created and Directed by

N. Katherine Hayles, Patrick Jagoda, and Patrick LeMieux



Lead Game Designers

Luke Caldwell, Nick Gessler, and Ainsley Sutherland



Game Designers

Lauren Brown, Mark Govea, Dave Mayer, Albert Hu, Mike Du,
and KB Burnside



Document Designers

Marcel O’Gorman, Jay Dolmage, Neil Randall,
Kent Aardse, Natalee Blagden, Lauren Burr, David Carruthers, Morrie
Dehgani, John Doering, Heidi Ebert, Steven Fernandez, Sarah Gibbons,
Nathan Hagenah, Jason Hawreliak, Scott Kobweka, Rob Parker, Tom Mrva,
Leif Penzendorfer, James Saliba, Dani Stock, Amber West, and Farah Yusuf



Performers

James Estrada, Seed Lynn, Mollie McFee, and David Rambo



Play Testers

Luke Caldwell, Evan Gelb, Mark Govea, Tom Mrva, David Rambo,
Shae Van Wagoner, and Amanda Yu



Special Thanks

Stephanie Boluk, Michael Joyce, Duke University,
University of Chicago, University of Waterloo, and Vassar College



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