FIELD PROTOCOLS

I. CORE INQUIRY EVERY LAB MUST BEGIN WITH A GUIDING QUESTION, PURSUIT, OR HYPOTHESIS. CODE-SWITCH OPERATES ON THE FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLE OF INVESTIGATING HOW CULTURAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, AND DISCIPLINARY SIGNALS INTERSECT. NO ARTEFACT IS CREATED WITHOUT INTENTION. EVERY OUTPUT IS A RESPONSE TO A FIELD CONDITION, NOT SIMPLY AN AESTHETIC GESTURE.

MANDATE: ESTABLISH A WORKING QUESTION OR CONCEPTUAL AXIS FOR EVERY CYCLE OF TRANSMISSION.

II. MULTIDISCIPLINARY TOOLSET CODE-SWITCH MUST MAINTAIN ACCESS TO MULTIPLE EXPRESSIVE FORMS: VISUAL, SONIC, SPATIAL, MATERIAL, AND LINGUISTIC. THE ABILITY TO MOVE FLUIDLY BETWEEN DISCIPLINES IS CORE TO ITS NAME AND FUNCTION. MEDIUM IS NOT FIXED; IT IS A LANGUAGE THAT SHIFTS WITH CONTEXT.

MANDATE: ENSURE FLUID INTERFACES EXIST BETWEEN THE AMF PFA MODULES AT ALL TIMES.

III. STRUCTURE FOR ITERATION CODE-SWITCH DOES NOT OPERATE ON THE FINALITY OF DROPS. IT FUNCTIONS IN LOOPS. EACH ARTEFACT IS A TEST, NOT A TROPHY. THE VALUE LIES IN MODULATION, ADAPTATION, AND RESONANCE, NOT PERFECTION. FAILURE IS NOT LOSS, IT IS REDIRECTION.

MANDATE: BUILD AND PRESERVE FEEDBACK LOOPS. ARTEFACTS ARE TO BE REVISITED AND RECONTEXTUALIZED.

IV. DOCUMENTATION & ARCHIVAL SYSTEM WITHOUT TRACEABILITY, INSIGHT DISSOLVES. THE CODA (CENTRALISED ORGANISATIONAL DOCUMENTATION ARCHIVE) EXISTS TO RECORD ARTEFACTS, EXPERIMENTS, FAILURES, MODIFICATIONS, AND RESONANCE PATTERNS. THIS ARCHIVE IS NOT RETROSPECTIVE; IT IS GENERATIVE.

MANDATE: ALL OUTPUTS MUST BE LOGGED WITH METADATA (DESIGNATION, STUDIO, DISCIPLINE, EXPERIMENTATION, DATE). ARCHIVES ARE LIVING.

V. CONTROLLED DISORDER CHAOS WITHOUT FORM IS NOISE. FORM WITHOUT FLEXIBILITY IS PRISON. THE CODE-SWITCH SYSTEM IS MODULAR, NOT RIGID. FRAMEWORKS EXIST TO SUPPORT DEVIATION. CREATIVITY IS A SIGNAL DISTURBANCE, ONE THAT MUST BE INTERPRETED, NOT CORRECTED.

MANDATE: MAINTAIN STRUCTURE, BUT INVITE RUPTURE. EACH MODULE MUST ALLOW FOR STRUCTURAL ELASTICITY.

VI. OUTPUT CHANNEL A LAB UNSEEN IS A FREQUENCY LOST. CODE-SWITCH IS NOT A STATIC ARCHIVE; IT IS A LIVE SYSTEM. TRANSMISSION IS PART OF THE RESEARCH. ARTEFACTS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE HOARDED, BUT RELEASED. EVEN EPHEMERALITY IS A KIND OF PERMANENCE.

MANDATE: ALL WORK MUST PASS THROUGH A BROADCAST LAYER: PHYSICAL, DIGITAL, SOCIAL, OR SPATIAL.

SUMMARY CODE-SWITCH IS NOT A STUDIO. IT IS A LIVE BROADCAST SYSTEM OPERATING UNDER THE PRINCIPLES OF INQUIRY, ITERATION, MODULATION, AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION. THESE PROTOCOLS SERVE AS FOUNDATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO ENSURE THAT THE SYSTEM MAINTAINS ITS FLUIDITY, RESONANCE, AND INTENTIONAL DISRUPTION ACROSS ALL FORMATS AND FIELDS.

THE SYSTEM IS ALWAYS IN TRANSMISSION.