A college course that opened my eyes to the collaborative potential between technology and ‘natural’ forces was with Lawrence La’bianca’s Nature Machines elective at CCA. His prompt as I understood it was to make an instrument to record an episode, or a moment of nature - in my case an evening and morning of higher than normal winds in Oakland. The artist shares authorship over the ultimate work with natural forces - weather, algae growth, turbulence, or otherwise.