Crowdsourced Video Essay and Song on Subjectivity by Edge Citizens

Logline: A video essay and song exploring subjectivity, with crowdsourced visuals and collaboration from Edge residents. What are you making? Final: A video essay and song exploring subjectivity vs. objective truth — what it is like to be a particular person, and how that is expressed. I will write and sing it. Edge residents will help with production and contribute visuals on themes shared with the village. How will your project impact the world? A small act of attention to subjectivity — the irreducible texture of being a particular self. The crowdsourced visuals from Edge residents around the world bring plurality into the piece itself: many lives, many angles, one shared question. What progress have you made? Concept and themes drafted. Plan to recruit collaborators among Edge residents for production help (song, video editing, instruments). Why are you the right person? Writer building Reasonscape, an AI reasoning tool, which has deepened my thinking on subjectivity and plurality. This project extends that thread into sound and image. I sing, write, and want to make something honest and finished. ━━━ Budget Request ━━━ • Software/tools — $75 • Honoraria for 2-3 key collaborators — $150 • Recording session — $100 • Incidentals — $50 ━━━ Total: $375 ━━━