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title: About - Halim Madi, computational poet and creative technologist
url: https://www.halimmadi.com/about/
description: "Halim Madi: computational poet, performer, and creative technologist. Robert Coover Award winner. Computer theater, machine poetry, electronic literature, and AI language preservation with Wikitongues."
generated: 2026-09-06
---

# Halim Madi

## about.txt

about

The bio, the links, and a short cv.

## portrait.jpg

![Halim Madi.](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/portrait/halim-portrait.png)

## bio.txt

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](https://eliterature.org/), [Mozilla Creative Futures](https://foundation.mozilla.org/), [CultureHub](https://www.culturehub.org/), [Media Archaeology Lab](https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/), and the European Artistic Program, among others. In 2025, I became the Poet-in-Residence at [Devconnect](https://devconnect.org/), exploring blockchain as a medium for poetic ritual.

Before that, I led product and design teams at [Meta](https://www.meta.com/) (launching Avatars, redesigning Facebook profiles, rethinking Oculus UI), at [Stripe](https://stripe.com/), where I rebuilt developer documentation and dashboards from the inside out and at [Mistral AI](https://mistral.ai/) where I launched deep research, reasoning, memory and projects for Le Chat. Earlier still: a degree in machine learning from the [University of Toronto](https://www.utoronto.ca/), in a joint program with the [Sorbonne](https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/) where I minored in philosophy and poetry.

Today, I speak and teach widely, from [Stanford](https://www.stanford.edu/) and [Google](https://about.google/) to [Gray Area](https://grayarea.org/) and the [Electronic Literature Organization](https://eliterature.org/), 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.

## links.txt

- [CV · /cv/](https://www.halimmadi.com/cv/)
- [Press kit · drive ↗](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1giOzBB4gjf1wA6atAYhyhidEWSPf5Sxp?usp=drive_link)
- [GitHub · madihg ↗](https://github.com/madihg)
- [Instagram · yalla_halim ↗](https://www.instagram.com/yalla_halim)
- [LinkedIn · madihalim ↗](https://www.linkedin.com/in/madihalim)
- [YouTube · yalla_halim ↗](https://www.youtube.com/@yalla_halim)
- [Newsletter · substack ↗](https://halimmadi.substack.com/)

## cv/

[full cv](https://www.halimmadi.com/cv/)