Signal+Static

The Organic Edge: Designing for Actual Bodies and Actual Systems

DDX NYC 2026: Nine talks, nine scales, one principle. Constraint is specification.

Jul 30 • Marcel

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Beyond the Edge: The Full DDX NYC Field Report

DDX NYC 2026: The complete field report. Accessibility, presence, judgment, testing rigor, and the AI-ecosystem architecture built for a handheld

Jul 30 • Marcel

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June 2026

The Systems Interview the Operator

Exposing some of the wiring

Jun 12 • Marcel

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May 2026

The Nervous System of the Sea

An interview with Tyler Temple of Pollentia

May 26 • Marcel

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April 2026

The Imagination Gap

Science is making history. Who’s making the story?

Apr 29 • Marcel

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March 2026

SXSW Field Log // Day 7: Human in Which Loop?

Cybernetics arrived overtly. Fifty years of Apple, one morning of Maeda, and Carl Pei’s bet that care is still the differentiator.

Mar 19 • Marcel

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SXSW Field Log // Day 6: What the Format Can’t Hold

What gets lost in the conversion. What the body keeps and what might keep the body.

Mar 18 • Marcel

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SXSW Field Log // Day 5: The Whale in the Room

Be a good cyborg. Offload the execution, not the thinking. Then go find the oldest signal we've been ignoring.

Mar 17 • Marcel

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SXSW Field Log // Day 4: The Last Line

Signal+Static · SXSW 2026 Field Dispatch · March 15, 2026

Mar 16 • Marcel

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SXSW Field Log // Day 3: The Rewrite Layer

Amy Webb tracked the storm. MIT logged the threshold breaches. By afternoon, the question was who authors the defaults.

Mar 15 • Marcel

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SXSW Field Log // Day 2: The Handover State Emerges

Companion, tool, god, mother. AI identity is still unsettled while the grid and orbital layer are already mid-transfer.

Mar 14 • Marcel

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SXSW Field Log // Day 1: The Interface Is the Intervention

Three sessions on cognition, infrastructure, and the metabolic cost of offloading.

Mar 13 • Marcel

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