ISSUE II

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