Human Creativity
in the Age of
Simulation

Ted Chiang is the author of Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation. His science fiction explores questions of language, choice, technology, and what it means to be human.

Michel Martin is an Emmy-winning journalist and broadcaster. She brings a career in reporting and public conversation to the symposium’s opening evening.

Adam Green is a Georgetown psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist whose research examines human creative intelligence. He directs the Georgetown Laboratory for Relational Cognition and studies the neural processes involved in creative reasoning.

Kyle Chayka is the author of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture and The Longing for Less. His writing examines the relationship between technology, culture, and attention.

Vauhini Vara is the author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age, This Is Salvaged, and The Immortal King Rao, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work brings fiction, journalism, and personal inquiry to questions of technology and human connection.

Meghan O’Gieblyn is the author of Will and Attention, God Human Animal Machine, and Interior States. Her essays and criticism explore technology, belief, consciousness, and the conditions of thought.

David Robinson is the author of Voices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made. His work examines how human values and public participation shape the design and governance of digital systems.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer creates installations that bring art, architecture, performance, and technology into dialogue. His work invites public participation through light, movement, sound, and responsive environments.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of Travesty Generator and other poetry collections, and co-editor, with Nick Montfort, of Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023. Their work explores the possibilities of poetry and computation.