Monica Storss has published, edited, curated, and advocated for emerging art forms in cultural spaces globally for many years. Her interventions range from locative media to exoplanetary art. She is the creator of The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine, which debuted at MIT’s Hacking Arts Festival in 2019, and was sent to Earth’s moon in 2021 as part of a larger payload delivery. She has been called a “lunar punk poet” and is involved in exoplanetary arts and humanities at large. Recent work in AI and hybrid intelligence include The Oracle, a closed Large Language Model trained on Storss’ own writing corpus. In 2025, Ensemble Park published excerpt from The Oracles, the poem cycle co-authored by Storss and the algorithm trained on her own writing.
A core throughline of her work is making the arts and technology legible and accessible to all. She supports artists in incorporating emerging technologies into their own practices, and has been part of founding teams in cultural entrepreneurship, notably for CymaSpace, a musical non-profit for the Deaf. A dedicated champion of interdisciplinary creative spaces, Storss has directed programming for If Not For Kidnap , Venom & The Anecdote, and UC Davis. She has edited, curated, and advocated for emerging technology art forms at MIT, Intel, HP Inc, and cultural spaces globally. Storss’ recent poetry-related work includes translations in Gobshite Quarterly and XR poetry. Her research appears in the Journal for Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and IntechOpen, and is forthcoming from Springer Nature. She has been awarded residencies at Tin House, The Tomales Bay Writers Workshop, and was recipient of The Friends of English Graduate Award.
She recently edited one of the first collections of XR creative writing for Re:mediate, and co-founded The Laboratory for Speculative Repair. She currently runs Coven10, a tech adjacent writing group and collaborative. Much of her current work and research focuses on Poetics and Pedagogies with emerging technology. She currently teaches in the Arts Administration and Cultural Entrepreneurship Master’s degree program at Northeastern University.
In Review:
Springer Nature: “Postdigital Relationality: Entaglement, Agency, and Critical Becoming,” 2026 forthcoming
IntechOpen: The Primacy of Poetics: Why Artists Will Lead The Metaverse Economy, 2026 forthcoming
Recent Publications:
“Critical Making For Creative Writers: Decolonizing Knowledge Production Through The Creative Experiential” Electronic Literature Organization Conference Proceedings, Toronto ON, 2025.
“The Oracle,” Ensemble Park, Issue #1, 2024
“Mange Bien” Juste Milieu, Issue 17, Like A Hunger, 2024
Translations, Gobshite Quarterly, Winter Spring 2023
Exhibitions
The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine, New Alliance Gallery, Somerville MA, September -November 2024
The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine Artisan’s Asylum, Boston MA, May, 2023 Workshop 13, Ware, MA, April, 2023
Lunar Deployment of The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine, Earth & Earth’s moon via Astrobotic, February 2021
The Augmented Reality Poetry Mailbox, MIT Hacking Arts, Cambridge, MA, 2019
Sometimes I Think I Can See You, Mario Pensotti, Time Based Arts Festival, Portland, OR, 2013
Performance Lectures
“Poetics as a Site for Critical Making: Empowerment Epistemologies in Digital Archives,” 4S 2025, Seattle WA, September 2025.
“The Augmented Reality Poety Machine: Critical Making, Poetry, and Publics,” Electronic Literature Organization Conference, July 2025.
“You Are The Digital Poem,” Artisan’s Asylum, @party, May 2023.
“Augmented Reality and Digital Poetics,” MIT Hacking Arts, December 2019
Curatorial Work
Guest Editor, Re:mediate lit mag, 2025.
Curator In Residence, If Not For Kidnap, Portland Oregon, 2010-2012
Curator & Founder, Venom & The Anecdote, San Francisco, CA. 2009-2010
Curator & Director, The Graduate Reading Series at UC Davis, Davis, CA 2007-2008
Editor in Chief, The Greenbelt Review, UC Davis, 2007-2008