Ilan Manouach (1980) is a comics artist and a postdoctoral scholar on Computational Creativity at
the University of Liège. He is also an affiliate scholar at Harvard metaLAB, a member of Racliffe’s
Institute for Climate Sound & Society, and an affiliate researcher at Paris VIII with Labo Paragraph.
He is the author of over 30 comic books and the editor of Chimeras. Inventory of SyntheticCognition, a collective glossary on AI , with 150 contributors exploring a variety of epistemic perspectives on artificial intelligence: interspecies, crip, monstrous, feminist, distributed, and decolonial, among others. He is an appointed expert on the comic book industry to the Belgian
government and worked as a strategy consultant for the Onassis Foundation. He is the founder of
Echo Chamber a non-profit organization dedicated to comics research (part of the Creative Europe
consortium of Expanded publishing), and the founder of Topovoros Books, a Greek publishing
house spearheading translations of cornerstone essays in humanities. He is the creator of
Shapereader (2014-), a system of tactile comics for people with visual disabilities and the co-creator
of the first algorithmic cartoon generator, The Neural Yorker (2019-2023). His work is the subject
of a dedicated Routledge critical anthology and his latest book, Out Side, is a collaboration with K
Allado-McDowell, founder of Google’s AMI program.