Multimedia art + technology studio

We turn storiesinto livingsystems.

Audio, video, interactive, and live media. Built for people to enter, shape, and extend.

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01 / ESSENCE

Art + technology.
Collective experience.

Advancing consciousness.

Our mission is to advance consciousness through collective experiences enabled by art and technology. By combining frontier AI and classical production techniques, we accelerate the creative process to unlock unit economics that empower independent content and new formats that engage the audience through participation in the creative process.

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02 / SELECTED FIELDS

Same brain.
Different outputs.

01Generative narrative systemOngoing

Cosmachine

A storyworld that
remembers you.

Cosmachine turns ideas into stories and characters, and stories and characters into consistently reusable interactive media. It combines video, audio, and generative software into a storyworld that changes through participation.

Generative systems ↗
02Audio + video

Time-based media

Sound and image
in working order.

Production systems for films, records, installations, and live performance. Rules first. Effects second.

03Interactive + live

Living systems

Interfaces that do not
freeze up.

Interactive identities and performance systems built for screens, spaces, stages, and the network between them.

03 / METHOD

Open-source. Live process.
Co-creation.

How we work.

  1. 01

    Open-source

    Our tools are open-source.

  2. 02

    Live process

    Our process is live and always in progress.

  3. 03

    Co-creation

    Our work prioritizes collective co-creation over passive consumption.

04 / FOUNDERS

Science, software, story.

Built across
disciplines.

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Armando

  • Neuroscience and computer science dual major at USC.
  • Software engineer at Bain & Company; created and sold financial-intelligence tooling to Bain and its 10,000-company customer base.
  • Youngest researcher at USC’s Fraser Stem Cell Lab.
  • Founding engineer at myPocketCFO (acquired).
  • Founder of the LeetCode Club and member of Spark USC.
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Max

  • Dual major in Cinema & Media Studies and Business Administration at USC. Minors in Multimedia Design and Music Production.
  • Three-time founder with two exits; grew $2 million in investment into $25 million in value.
  • Composing, producing, recording, and performing music since age 13; created his first video game at 14.
  • Experience in book publishing, documentary direction, and feature-film screenwriting.
05 / CONTACT

Have a strange idea?

Good.
Send it over.

studio@veilpiercer.xyz ↗
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