Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is an African American writer, poet, artist, and educator who works at the intersection of computation, AI, race, and gender. They are the author of Travesty Generator (Noemi Press), a book of computational poetry that received the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Anna Rabinowitz prize for interdisciplinary work and longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. They are the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Their other poetry books include How Narrow My Escapes (DIAGRAM/New Michigan), Personal Science (Tupelo Press), a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press), and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press). Their fifth book, Negative Money, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2023.
Dina Chang
Dina Chang is an American artist and curator whose work merges traditional photography with machine learning, video, misused software, and science. She seeks an emotional response from viewers as opposed to an intellectual one. Previous exhibitions of her work include MoMA PS1 as part of the Expo: 1 New York module ProBio; The Andy Warhol Museum; and Refraction Festival New York and Tokyo. She has been a visiting critic at Rutgers, Parsons the New School, and The International Center of Photography. She is also co-founder of Setta, an experimental creative studio based in New York City.
