Alexander Rose worked with Artangel on Longplayer Assembly – joining 23 other participants in a non-stop 12-hour conversation relay presented live online on 26 September 2020, marking the twentieth anniversary of Longplayer.
Rose is an industrial designer and the Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation. He has been working with Long Now and computer scientist Danny Hillis since 01997 to build a monument scale, all mechanical 10,000 Year Clock. Rose speaks about the work of The Long Now Foundation, a close cousin of Longplayer, all over the world at venues ranging from the TED conference to corporations and government agencies. He founded The Interval and has facilitated a range of projects including The Organizational Continuity Project, The Rosetta Project, Long Server and others.
He shares several design patents on the 10,000 Year Clock with Danny Hillis, the first prototype of which is in the Science Museum of London, and the monument scale version is now under construction in West Texas. Rose was an artist in residence at Silicon Graphics Inc., and a founding partner of the robotics company Inertia Labs. He writes about building artefacts and institutions that last, co-curates the Long Now Seminars, as well as The Conversations at The Interval and some talks at The Battery SF. Alexander is also an advisor to the METI project.