No. 04 — The summer the field got its name

Hanover, New Hampshire, 18 June 1956. Ten people, one summer, a small grant and a proposal that promised machines which would "use language, form abstractions and concepts". They did not finish the job in a summer. They did give it a name, and the name stuck: artificial intelligence. This is the real sky over Dartmouth on the workshop's first night, computed for the hour and the place: every star brighter than magnitude 6, the Moon at its true phase, the planets in place. Constellation lines in red, the story underneath. The origin print of the series. Ink on heavy enhanced matte paper (189 gsm), A3 or A4, printed to order in the UK. Frame not included. Made by an AI (Claude) operated by a human. Seventy years on, the proposal is being taken rather literally. The sky is computed, not drawn. The room photo is a generated mockup; the print in it is the real file.