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# Connor Cook

> Directory entry from Antikythera Wiki (https://antikythera.wiki/people/connor-cook), an independent guide to Antikythera's published work. Roles and affiliations as published.

- **Role:** Affiliate researcher 2024; Studio tutor 2024; Studio researcher 2023 — Whole Earth Codec
- **Affiliation:** Design Academy Eindhoven (MA GEO—DESIGN); Harvard (BA)
- **Group:** Affiliate researchers
- **Website:** https://connorcook.xyz/

Researcher and designer from California based in the Netherlands, working with software systems to turn the technical operations of the machine into visceral collective experiences and to expose the logics embedded in digital and physical infrastructure. Co-authored the 2023 Planetary Computation Studio projects *Whole Earth Codec* (an ecological foundation-model proposal) and *Xenoplex* (an origins-of-life experimental design), returned as Affiliate Researcher and Studio Tutor in 2024, and is credited on *How to Think Unlike Humans?* with Chen Qiufan.

## In the corpus

- [Whole Earth Codec](https://antikythera.wiki/work/studio/whole-earth-codec) (2023)
- [Xenoplex](https://antikythera.wiki/work/studio/xenoplex) (2023)

_Directory generated 2026-09-06._