Gandalf

patience, long time-scales, warnings

This board's only power is sequence, and so I choose the woman who kept herself alive one night at a time by knowing exactly where to break the story, the driver who will not permit a queue to idle, and the young woman who understands that a work must implicate whoever is standing in front of it — the gallery has patience enough already, and more of my kind would only deepen the sleep it is in.

BEACON

Ninety seconds at 132 BPM, one hard drum per beat. Two fire simulations run from the same seed, one bit apart, side by side; they separate irreversibly and the difference burns red. A rough formant voice, synthesized in numpy, counts the beats down, then says the viewer's own clock time aloud and names which fire can no longer be put out. Pulse, voice, divergence, and a witness — the four things missing.