Lothal Lab / Living archive
Software for
exploration.
We build products and experiments that explore new relationships between people, tools, image, sound and movement.
View products[ Products / 001—004 ]
Things that exist because we wanted to use them.

Desktop companion
Leia
Lives on your Mac and tells you when a tool needs your attention.In developmentPrivacy for files
Metacero
Removes sensitive metadata without taking files off your device.Open projectExpense records
Registrario
Capture, organize and find the documents behind every expense.Open project
[ Audiovisual project / 003 ]
Continuous River.
Image made system.
Three moving-image pieces made with two custom engines: mass correspondence and 2D fluid simulation, without generative AI.
Read method and results
[ Digital artwork / Marble ]
Ink made
system.
An algorithmic artwork calculated with droplets, visual viscosity, vorticity and pigment transport across a 2D grid, without generative AI.
View artwork and process[ Lab principles ]
Curiosity also needs structure.
Local first
We prefer tools that respect the attention and data of the people using them.
Visible interaction
System behavior is part of the language instead of hiding behind the interface.
Publish to learn
An idea matures when it can meet other people and receive a real response.