An artificial definition of intelligence is the capacity of systems to generate evidence for their own existence. This involves solving problems via action and perception, curiosity and creative capacity, which is generative. Similar to how the labor theory of value is not really about work, but the reproduction of power, artificial intelligence changes our relationship to the value of self-evidence. If a distributed network of intelligent systems learns from nature, explicit symbolic communication and thinking through craft make "the work of art" an organic manifestation of intelligence as seen from above. At each physical spatiotemporal scale of interest, one can identify systems coupled to the funtional motifs of purposeful persistence. Any point from which the human and machine may be perceived as an edgescape of nested characteristics is a site of active interference. I am applying to graduate school at Kent State with an interest in the political history of the school as well as with an investment in the MFA's orientation to craft. I think processes of making that are culturally universal apply to the history of technology. On the east coast, the scope of interests relevant to my vocation as an art critic who publishes for art magazines, and as a freelance art worker working adjacent to technology, have narrowed. Meanwhile, the acceleration of information systems and the need to develop tools that change the way people think about problems such as land, climate and energy (or what I would choose to negotiate as 'intelligence') have exponentially expanded the notion of what it means to think and respond creatively to the present day. Rather than any one subject matter, medium, material or theme, I am interested in the contexts of collaboration through technology and how disciplines of touch weave and warp the modernist project, so that it remains unfinished. The structure and resources available through a research institution feel integral to the arts practice that I would like to have, which is one that uses organizational and institutional development as the basis of technological extension.