Chris Tanasescu

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 international coalition of poets-translators, visual artists/musicians, and coders throwing events and launching publications on and...See more

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 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 a research scientist on the PIETRA project at the University of Galway. Previous or ongoing positions and affiliations include Coordinator of Digital Humanities at the University of Ottawa, Altissia Chair in Digital Cultures and Ethics at Universit� Catholique de Louvain, Senior Researcher in Global Literary Studies and Complex Systems at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and Visiting Scholar at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria. He is an Asymptote Editor-at-Large. See less