An aleatory *body of research* that we dance with and through, the FIELD GUIDE explores collective authorship, experimentally creating documents and systems that support shifting centers and peripheries of inquiry (and identity). The collaboratively-authored FIELD GUIDE seeks to locate new forms for co-authored research in critical media arts, centered on open pedagogical tools. Attendees are invited to participate synchronously across platforms as we host a performative workshop/drift, moving through our FIELD GUIDE as a score holding multiple potential realizations.