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site for intervention in the creative process, this paper frames the problem of imagination and choice in
studio practice as a series of operations on sets of data (ideas, images, and materials) represented in the
space of language. This choice of representation is drawn from the idea of indexical language, as a an solution approach to the problem of representing materially diverse assets in a common space—in this case a
multi-dimensional vector space as described in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational
Linguistics (CL) literature. Using tools from the fields of NLP and CLthose fields, specifically vector representations
and relatedness operations, I describe and implement a language processing system, applying it to the
domains of video composition and an art-idea machine, creating formulae for studio art objects. Less
