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Kevin McLellan and Laura Knott met while they were working at the Program in Art, Culture and Technology at MIT. EXORDIUM is their first collaboration. The word refers to a beginning, and it's related to the opening of an argument. EXORDIUM begins this argument: that our ordered lives are grounded in a kind of privilege that no one – including us – really deserves. Something isn't right, and it never was.