Relation to the field
The score places Machine Dream near traditions of scores, protocols, and systems art: a work that is not only the result, but the set of operations that allows something to happen again. As in a musical or performative score, the text does not exhaust the work; it makes executable a relation between memory, archive, body, and machine.
The difference from a technical dreaming feature lies here: this is not about improving agent continuity, but about making a politics of elaboration visible. The dream collects traces, transforms what it finds, and returns to the artist an image of what was operating beneath the agenda. The public publication is not the raw dream. It is the citable edge of the method.
Public case
The first public version of the protocol was published as Machine Dream Research v0.1.1 in an open repository: github.com/sztlink/machine-dream-research.
The package includes methodology, archive and intimacy policy, claims and limits, corpus layers, an initial bibliography, and a sanitized facsimile of the 2026-03-31 dream — chosen because it marks the shift from audit to method. The raw material remains private. The raw hash remains in a private dossier. The public receives the structure, not the intimacy.
The editorial decision is part of the work: publish enough for the method to exist outside the implant, but not so much that the implant betrays what it was meant to protect.