I feel awkward about going into talk of myself with no preamble. So here are some lines. I notice how most people work around this shyness but referring to themselves in the third person. Like this: Michelle Santiago Cortés is a writer and editor living and working in New York… But once I get to the second half of most of the bios I’ve been asked to write, the first person feels more authoritative and immediate. But enough of that. The bio:

My name is Michelle Santiago Cortés. I am freelance writer and editor working in art and technology criticism. I regularly write for New York Magazine, ArtReview and work as a contributing editor for Lux magazine. I earned my B.S. in Magazine Journalism from Boston University in 2018, and have since worked in art publishing and digital media, writing any and all kinds of blogs, articles, features, essays and interviews. This extends into in-depth knowledge of distribution channels and techniques like SEO, newsletter, social media, and print. As an editor, I work primarily with artists and other “non-writers” to help them take small steps into public writing. My primary research interest is technology criticism (the history and practice of) and extends into art, theory and experimental publishing.

For the AI Hallucinations Project, I am taking lead on all things outreach and promotion. I mostly earn a living as an internet culture and technology critic, and will lean on almost ten years of connections and insights. My work — whatever shape it takes — is dedicated to promoting critical discourse around technology and emerging media. The AI Hallucinations Project, in a sense, is a work of tech criticism and it will be promoted to audiences with documented interest in such discourses. I am mostly drawing from what I learned in my self-publishing practice by targeting the online communities and distribution channels that offer a direct line to “our people,” leveraging word-of-mouth, as a way of building a community that will eventually gather around a more traditional platform like an Instagram profile, in addition to the website.