SCORES FOR SOCIAL SOFTWARE · CYCLE 2

Jeffrey Scudder / Aesthetic Computer — every asset from the ten weeks, in one place · part of the research platter
↓ everything.zip · 440 MB

The Reel — unboxing the edition

The blue folder arrives, the red cord comes off, and all eleven scores pass through gloved hands — a narrated page-through of publication copy 51, built from the July 16 shoot and the June 13 Fuser documentation.

second cut — stills-driven edit

The Works — eleven contributions, edition of 64

One canonical plate per contribution, photographed July 16 from publication copy 51. The order follows the colophon card.

The Photographs — July 16 documentation shoot

The full documentation shoot of the collated edition — every page, object, and detail of publication copy 51. Burst frames are folded behind their lead image (+N reveals them); click any image to view with captions and step through every frame.

The Photographs — June 13 closing at Fuser

The 78 photographs of the closing event at Fuser, 1811 Blake Ave — cohort performances and the edition's collation day, folded the same way. Index view; the masters live in the program's own shared archive, cataloged below with SHA-256 identities.

The Doc — live on sosoft.arts.ucla.edu

The plain-spoken companion to the paper, published on the Social Software site, revised through Casey's anchored copy-edits.

The Paper — the edition score

“Keymaps as Social Software” — the research paper printed as sixty-four copies for the collated Cycle 2 publication, with a mobile cards format and five translations.

The Keymap Is the Score — essay first page

Interactive Keymap

The p5.js notepat keymap embedded at the foot of the doc — press the keys.

Doc Header Illustration

The colored-pencil illustration made for the doc header — a circle of listeners around a laptop of keymap tiles — as printed on the article and the paper's cover.

Doc header illustration

Cycle 2 Proposal & KidLisp Score Cards — March 2026

The opening proposal — Aesthetic Computer submitted as a social software project in active development — and the KidLisp score cards with QR codes that accompanied it.

KidLisp score cardcard $kl1 score card$kl1 $24m score card$24m $duv score card$duv $berz score card$berz

Media Archive

Working catalog of the cycle's documentation: 78 photographs from the June 13 closing at Fuser, the 174-photo July 16 documentation shoot, and the presentation recordings. Masters stay offline; the catalog records provenance, descriptions, and SHA-256 identities.