is a scriptwriter and aspiring filmmaker currently residing in Bucharest. Her metamodernist research at the Centre of Excellence in Image Studies revolves around contemporary Romanian theatre and the intermedial dialogue between stage and screen, exploring how performance and cinematography intersect and reshape one another in a diffractive way. Her interests extend into phenomenology and philosophy, guiding her essays and short prose, some of which can be found on her Substack, imponderable. Her most recent article, Beneath the Neon Light: The Anatomy of a Lost and Found Orchard, appears in the Journal of Performing Arts, edited by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

is a poet. He is from Botoșani.

is an MA student at CESI, with a thesis on the power plays of naked and clothed puppets. She is currently oscillating between teaching English and pursuing a research career. Alexia is a radical optimist (for now) and strives to one day become a fully-fledged posthumanist thinker.

is a poet with roots in the chaparral and deserts of Southern California. She is the author of Moonscape for a Child (Bored Wolves, 2024) and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Romania. Writing honors include a William Dickey Fellowship, a contribution to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a contribution to the Poetry Program at Community of Writers, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and a Best of the Net nomination. Her poetry appears on NPR’s Living on Earth Radio, WFIU’s The Poet’s Weave, Equatorial Literary Magazine, Parentheses Journal, Manzano Mountain Review, and more. She has a master’s degree in English: Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and has taught creative writing for Ovidius University, Point Reyes Institute, The Loft Literary Center, and the US-Romanian Embassy. She’s an editor for The SEEfest Review and the curator behind Living Poetry.

graduated in Art History and is currently a master’s student at CESI. Her passion for film and art is also reflected in her essays. She draws inspiration from whatever catches her eye, from simple life scenes to various abstract topics. She also works as a graphic designer – an ideal medium where she can blend both text and visuals. 

has a BA in Romanian Literature and is currently doing a MA in Literary Studies. Whether she reads, writes or photographs, Anda is trying to catch a glimpse of those hauntingly beautiful experiences of irreality.

has a BA in cybernetics and is currently pursuing an MA in cultural studies at CESI. His interests include film theory, generative coding (processing/p5.js rather than their so-called generative AI counterparts), media theory, and, more broadly, phenomenology.

holds a BA in Art History and is pursuing an MA at CESI, focusing on a research project on contemporary art interventions in heritage buildings. She is a curatorial assistant at /SAC @ Bucharest and an independent curator. She occasionally writes exhibition reviews and is passionate about collaborative projects & the continuous exploration of the art world.

published his debut Apelofo_b in late 2023.

is currently pursuing a master’s degree at CESI, with a strong passion for theatre and a deep curiosity about how identity unfolds in both performance and everyday life. Her work explores the fluid nature of identity and presence, seeking to capture the subtle interplay between self, space, and story.

is a logician. She teaches at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest.

is a cultural recycler drawing in MSPaint. She is challenging the visual overload of our digital era with shameless reinterpretations using nostalgic lo-fi tools. CopyKitty.png is playful, raw and forever free from the pressures of originality. Her first solo show, Save as copykitty.png, was held at Celula de Artă / Carol 53 (Bucharest).

works with poetry and performative arts employing philosophy as risked intensity/affective virtuality/possibility to drill for other meetings. In 2017, she published a poetry book called Beatitude (political essay) and in 2021 she defended her PhD thesis, To Feel Deleuzian. Schizoanalysis of Experimental Literary Practices. Since 2016 she has performed in spaces from Bucharest: ODD Gallery, Tranzit, Salonul de Proiecte, CNDB, Anca Poterașu Gallery, Cabinet 44/Atelierele Malmaison.

is an experimental filmmaker currently studying at CESI. Her passion for film stems from an inclination towards multiple artistic fields, such as poetry, photography and music, which she has been exploring since 2019. Waitscape (2025), her first short film, is an exploration of representing emotions, through stillness and movement.

is a Bucharest-based filmmaker and researcher. He is currently pursuing a PhD in film narratology and semiotics. Through his projects, he explores mediality, psychogeography, alternate histories, and hauntology. Co-founder of The Ecoinformatic Center for Cultural Recalibration (CERC).

is an MA student at CESI. He participated in the 10th edition of Z9 Festival (2024), in the poetry workshops of the Art200 Queer Film Festival, and Poetic Hub #6. He published texts in the anthology Z9Magazine 2 (2022), and online on Gura Mare, Echinox and other platforms.

is passionate about exploring the intersection of memory and visual storytelling. Her MA thesis at CESI will focus on this. Through her writings, she seeks to capture fleeting moments and evoke the emotions embedded in forgotten or reimagined past.

is a performer, video artist, and sound collector. Her practice flows between reality and fiction, engaging in an open-ended conversation with the viewer. She studied Journalism (BA), Political Communication (MA), and Photography and Dynamic Image (MA), and in 2021 she obtained her PhD summa cum laude from the National University of Arts Bucharest. Larisa Crunţeanu’s works create contexts in which facts and memories are reactivated, fostering collective engagement and the emergence of new social practices. Many of her projects reflect on the notions of collaboration and gendered dynamics, through the usage of random objects, liminal spaces and myths.

is a master student at CESI.

is a student at Politehnica University of Bucharest and SNSPA. She has published poetry on various online literary platforms such as Cutra, Literatură și Feminism, DLITE, Versus Magazine and Echinox, as well as in print magazines like Echinox, Z9 Magazine, and Steaua. She is a member of Cenaclul X, contributing to two of its anthologies, Adăposturi and Luminișuri. She has also published in a collective volume with Decopertat, titled bărbați se leagă de lumina mea, eu aprind neoane.

(1995) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. He completed his studies at the National University of Arts in Bucharest (Painting department). In 2018, he started to incorporate more multimedia layers to his projects, working with digital printing, installation, and video, while maintaining a day-to-day painting routine. His latest exhibition, LUZ, took place in the summer of 2024 at the Suprainfinit Gallery in Bucharest.

(he/him) has published two poetry collections: Larvae (Casa de Editură Max Blecher, 2020) and Grija (OMG Publishing House, 2023). In 2024, he served as the editor of Specula Anthology 1, a DIY summer poetry collection. He has collaborated on various projects with Specula Group, Gura Mare, and Ludic Collective.

was the pseudonym of an English major undergrad who attended Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca in the 70s. During this time, he published a few texts in the special editions of Napoca Universitară, a student magazine. Little else is known of him and his current whereabouts. Our researchers found that the writer Ioan Groșan mentions him briefly in his memoirs (see Lumea ca literatură, 2017: 132), unfortunately, only by his nom de plume.

has a BA in literary theory with a thesis on ergodic literature, and is currently a master’s student at CESI, researching post-/trans-humanism and inorganic agencies in cinema. In his off time, he writes fiction that blurs the line between prose, essay, and poetry.

is an artist, curator, and writer living and working between Bucharest and Berlin, also known under his alias Megatron. He has been described as a paranoia double agent, information dealer, dirty data miner, info broker, shady somatic recipient and damaged cortical data retriever. In 2016 he published the essay collection Cosmic Drift & Temporal Divergence. Founder and co-curator of The Space Agency for Nocturnal Journeys to the Origins of the Universe.

is a composer, theorist, and rogue academic. He wrote several compositions for electronic instruments as well as a few indie film scores. Through his work, he explores various concepts rooted in physics, cybernetics, and cultural theory. He is currently developing an app to help people learn Georgian. 

is an author and cartoonist raised in the foothills of Tâmpa. He made a career in cocalarist comics, establishing himself widely in the alternative Romanian comic scene in the decade 2007-2017. His acclaimed titles COAPSE, BELIEVER, SALAMAN, PASTILATUL DIN CARPATII ORIENTALI, USURATICII, GETOCULTISTA, BUZI UZI and/or SALARIATUL AZI appeared in the massive anthology series SEFEU, which he coordinated as secretary general of the Sefeu Literary Circle. He wrote and drew the historical comic strip PIATRA SANGELUI, a volume that was received with scepticism due to its lack of meaning and abundance of unjustifiable anachronisms. In 2019, he became a certified Romanian poet with the volume TONE DE AUR, praised by critics for its galloping high-manelistic style and bombastic post-ideological sentimentality reminiscent of a microwave oven magnetron.

is a part-time writer, video editor, and music producer. In 2023, he made a video essay titled real talk about the past. Co-founder of The Ecoinformatic Center for Cultural Recalibration (CERC).