Chris Tanasescu Editor

Chris Tanasescu is a poet and academic with backgrounds in English and computer science. The Graph Poem project he started 15 years ago has outputted natural-language-processing and network-science-based poetry classifiers, intermedia performances, and computationally assembled poetry anthologies. His alias Margento refers to a cyber cross-artform ensemble and an international coalition of poets-translators, visual artists/musicians, and coders throwing events and launching publications on and off-line in four continents. Chris is currently Research Scientist on the PIETRA project at University of Galway and has previously served, among other positions, as Coordinator of Digital Humanities at University of Ottawa, Altissia Chair in Digital Cultures and Ethics at Université Catholique de Louvain, and Senior Researcher in Global Literary Studies and Complex Systems at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.