CHRIS TĂNĂSESCU

CHRIS TĂNĂSESCU aka MARGENTO (transnational, June 12, 1970, date and place are in fact uncertain) is a poet, academic, and performer. His alias is the name of an internationally awarded intermedia rock band, a global coalition of writers, computer scientists, translators, musicians, and visual artists, the editors of widely praised computationally assembled poetry anthologies, as well as the data-commoning networked authors of the #GraphPoem events presented in four continents since 2001 and annually at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (dhsi.org) since 2019. He is also Asymptote’s Editor-at-Large for Romania and Moldova.