Ilan Manouachis a postdoctoral scholar on Computational Creativity
at the University of Liège, an affiliate scholar at Harvard metaLAB, and a member of Racliffe’s Institute for Climate Sound & Society. He is the author of over 25 comic books and the editor of Chimeras. Inventory of Synthetic Cognition, acollective glossary on AI, with 150 contributors exploring a variety of epistemic perspectives on artificial intelligence. He is an appointed expert on the comic book industry to the Belgian government and worked as a strategy consultant for the Onassis Foundation. He is the founder of comics research non-profit Echo Chamber (Expanded publishing: Creative Europe 2023-2025), and the founder of Topovoros Books, a Greekpublishing housespearheading translations of cornerstone essays in humanities. He is the co-creator of the cartoon AI-generator “The Neural Yorker,” and his work is the subject of a dedicated Routledge critical anthology. His latest book, Out Side, is a collaboration with K Allado-McDowell, founder of Google’s AMI program.