Halim Madi
I’m a Lebanese-born artist, performer, and creative technologist working at the intersection of code, memory, and storytelling. My practice blends poetic systems, interactive theater, and AI tools to explore how language remembers, especially in the aftermath of displacement.
My work has been supported by the Robert Coover Award for Electronic Literature, Mozilla Creative Futures, CultureHub, Media Archaeology Lab, and the European Artistic Program, among others. In 2025, I became the Poet-in-Residence at Devconnect, exploring blockchain as a medium for poetic ritual.
Before that, I led product and design teams at Meta (launching Avatars, redesigning Facebook profiles, rethinking Oculus UI), at Stripe, where I rebuilt developer documentation and dashboards from the inside out and at Mistral AI where I launched deep research, reasoning, memory and projects for Le Chat.
Today, I speak and teach widely, from Stanford and Google to Gray Area and the Electronic Literature Organization, inviting people to reclaim creativity as infrastructure. Whether I’m writing a poem, designing a system, or giving a keynote, the goal is the same: build ways of relating that are strange, soft, and sovereign.