LANGUAGE & ART IN THE AGE OF AI – NONFICTION

ADAM ALEKSIC is a linguist and content creator posting educational videos as the “Etymology Nerd” to an audience of more than 3 million. As a linguistics student at Harvard College, he founded and served as president of the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society. He’s discussed online language on NPR and contributed repeatedly to The Washington Post, and his work has been mentioned in The New York Times, The Economist, and The Guardian. He’s lectured on language and social media at Stanford, Yale, Georgetown, and other top universities, including a TEDx talk at the University of Pennsylvania. Aleksic is based in New York, where he spends a lot of time scrolling TikTok for “research.”

LUCAS CANTOR SANTIAGO is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and author. He finished Franz Schubert's The Unfinished Symphony with artificial intelligence; the “completed” symphony is regularly performed around the world. He scored the teases (the pieces leading into the kickoff) to Super Bowl LVII featuring Bradley Cooper and Super Bowl LIX featuring Brad Pitt. He co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. He co-wrote the theme music for Major League Soccer on Fox, Breakfast Ball on FS1, and The Facility on FS1. He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City; Athens; Torino, Italy; Beijing; Vancouver, Canada; London; Sochi, Russia; Rio de Janeiro; PyeongChang, South Korea; Tokyo; and Paris. He won two Emmys for his work with the Olympics (2008 and 2012). In addition to his music career, he is a founder and general partner at Mindset MusicTech, a venture capital firm that invests in music technology.