© obxium manufactures artistic happenstances for the greater good of the Earth and its inhabitants
Happenstance
for every
biome
Our Practice
Instruments for the accidents of tomorrow.
obxium builds the instruments, conditions and quiet machinery that let beautiful accidents occur at planetary scale. Every work is designed to be found rather than shown, and to leave the place it touched in better health than before.
Our Business
Wonder, manufactured at scale.
obxium is an art products company. We don't wait for commissions to tell us what the world needs. We fund our own research, build finished works, and deploy them wherever the planet could use a small, improbable, and inexplicable happenstance.
Our People
The steadiest hands in uncertain craft.
obxium is engineers, ecologists, sculptors, sailors, and statisticians who would rather be outside. We are just shy of 28 full-time members of the serendipitous staff who are keepers the real narrative, and who know which shibboleth to answer with regardless of the question.
Every surface
of the Earth
The chance engine beneath every work.
Mycel is the chance engine that connects every obxium happenstance. It coordinates thousands of works across tide, soil, sky and orbit. A small open model, trained on twelve years of weather and coincidence, runs inference at the edge of every work so that each one occurs precisely by accident.
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A new standard in accidental manufacturing.
Foundry-1 produces tens of thousands of happenstances a year on lines designed for volume and tuned for surprise. Every unit ships with a certificate of uncertainty.
Inside the FoundryNews & field notes
Happen to us.
This is slow, strange, outdoor work, and it is yours. Equal parts patience and torque are baseline requirements.
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