Anastasia Chernysheva is a historian of art, science, and technology pursuing a Ph.D. at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research work and writing for popular outlets entangles the topics spanning from those more human-focused (avant-garde movement, artists run spaces, Intermedia, Downtown Scene) to more abstract ones dealing with frontiers of human creativity (brainwave music, cybernetics, telecommunication arts).