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Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician exploring biology, technology, and culture.

She is the singer of the Grammy-nominated pop groupYACHT, co-founder of VICE’s imprint for speculative fiction,Terraform, and co-editor, with Brian Merchant, of the accompanying anthologyTerraform: Watch Worlds Burn (MCD Books, 2022).Her 2018 history of women in computing,Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet,published by Penguin Random House, has been translated into six languages and was named one of theTop 10 Best Nonfiction Tech Books of All Time in 2023.

Her writing has appeared inMIT Technology Review, WIRED, The Verge,Pioneer Works’Broadcast,The Guardian, theLos Angeles Review of Books,Document Journal, Eye on Design,The Believer, andAeon, among others. Her2022 profile of the lost hacker Susy Thunder was nominated for an ASME Award; a feature film adaptation of the story is currently in development at Paramount Pictures.

She has given invited talks at theHirshhorn Museum, Walker Art Center,TEDx, La Gaité Lyrique,Google I/O, The New Museum,XOXO Festival, MUTEK,Goethe Institut, Manchester International Festival, SXSW, Gray Area, Neural Information Processing Systems, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and theDecentralized Web Summit, among others. She is a 2024 MacDowell Calderwood Fellow for Journalism.

She lives in Los Angeles, where she is an advisor to students in the Media Design Practices program atArt Center College of Design.

“Evans tells the story like a friend who knows you get bored easily; a generous sort of brilliance.” — Miranda July

“Evans is the whole package.” —Cory Doctorow

“An insightful, intelligent observer.” — The New York Times

Terraform is a literary incubator for speculative fiction co-founded in 2014 with Brian Merchant; home to hundreds of award-winning short stories, Twitter bots, interactive fiction projects, and graphic narratives from emerging and established authors. The print anthologyTerraform: Watch Worlds Burn was published by MCDxFSG Originals in August 2022.

The Computer Accentis a feature documentary following YACHT during the research, composition, and recording of the GRAMMY-nominated albumChain Tripping. Produced and directed byMEMORY. World premiered at CPH:DOX, available to rent or buy onAppleTV andPrime Video.

Wild Information is an ongoing newsletter sharing news and new writing, tracking the evolution of ideas as they form into a book, with an emphasis on ecology, computing, biology, and consciousness. TheWild Information Are.na channel, which serves as a feed for research that inspires the newsletter, isavailable here.

SVS is a play for four bots in three acts, created in collaboration with Tracy Chou for Rhizome.orgSeven on Seven.Each iteration of the script, entirely voiced by bots, randomizes the names, genders, and nationalities of its characters; the play serves as bias test. SVSwasperformed live at the New Museum in New York City in 2016 and the Riverside Museum of Art, Beijing, in 2018;the script can be run—and viewed—here.

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