author & artist Biographies
Markus J. Buehler is the McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT, leads MIT’s Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, and a composer of experimental, classical and electronic music, with an interest in sonification. His primary research interests focus on the structure and mechanical properties of biological and bio-inspired materials, to characterize, model and create materials with architectural features from the nano- to the macro-scale. Using an approach termed “materiomusic”, his artistic work explores the creation of new forms of musical expression - such as those derived from biological materials and living systems - as a means to better understand the underlying science and mathematics. One of his goals is to use musical and sound design as a way to model, optimize and create new forms of matter from the bottom up, and to assess cross-system design relationships. He is also interested in research to explore relationships between classical music, mathematics, and the physical and biological sciences, an in the mapping of models of consciousness across systems. In recent work he has developed a new framework to compose music based on proteins – the basic molecules of all life, as well as other physical phenomena such as fracturing, to explore similarities and differences across species, scales and between philosophical and physical models. Darnell “DeeSoul” Carson is a Black queer poet, performer, and educator from San Diego, CA, co-director of the award-winning Stanford Spoken Word Collective, and Editorial Assistant at the Adroit Journal. A two-time CUPSI finalist, his work has been featured or forthcoming on Write About Now Poetry and Button Poetry, and in The Adroit Journal, The Unified Anthology, The Oakland Arts Review, and elsewhere. He is currently pursuing a degree in Cultural/ Social Psychology with a minor in Creative Writing at Stanford University, where he has also led two-quarter long poetry workshop courses. S Cearley has tricked a computer into making poetry when it thinks it is making art. He is a former researcher in artificial intelligence and its use in generative literature, lecturer in philosophy, and a writer. For many years he has been creating these poems by tweaking expert systems, pushing the boundaries of the intended use of software. In the crisp, elegant world of mathematics and logic, he injects the fœtid swamp of human nature. His concrete poems have been published in many journals both online and on-paper. He has held classes on concrete poetry across the US, and many works have been featured in galleries in North America and Europe. More at futureanachronism.com. Gordon Chi is a Stanford sophomore currently studying Math and Computer Science. His research interests include the intersectionality of AI in healthcare, as well as the development of depthsearch based engines for board game variants. Since his freshman year, he has been a member of Dr. Andrew Ng’s AI in Healthcare bootcamp. Aside from research, Gordon enjoys playing chess, watching basketball and composing music. He is also a member of the North American Computational Linguistics Open Problem Committee, after having previously competed in the International Linguistics Olympiad. Milena Correia is a Brazilian artist, master’s student in aesthetics and artistic studies in photography and cinema at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, researching Brazilian women in documentary cinema. She studied theater and audiovisual and is the founder of Rustica Producoes, where she directs, photographs, edits and produces mainly films related to music and arts in general. She worked on music videos by artists such as Regina Machado and Tom Zé, Maurício Tagliari and Luedji Luna, Iara Rennó, Laya (in partnership with the photographer Gal Oppido). Responsible for editing the medium-length film “Sangria” by Luiza Romão, a film that was in several national and international festivals. Develops social and authorial projects through photography and film such as the partnership with Canudos Project, which takes place in the hinterland of Bahia - BR, and her recently experimental short film “The black hole and the blank page”, that flows around loneliness. Geneviève Dumas is the Montreal based printmaker artist behind the brand Goldengen. Her work is an investigation of unexpected representations that result from the combination of