Michael Salu is a British-born Nigerian writer, artist, filmmaker, editor and creative strategist with an interdisciplinary and curatorial practice informed by cross-cultural research and working creatively and critically intersecting new technologies with art and literature. He is the author of Red Earth (2023), What Lies Beyond the Red Earth? (2024) and editor of the anthology Cybernetics, or Ghosts? (2024). As a creative strategist and creative director, with strongly literary and scholarly underpinnings, he has developed ideas and designs for many cultural organisations and institutions, winning awards along the way. His written work has appeared in literary journals, magazines, art and academic publications, and as an artist, he has exhibited internationally. He has conducted extensive research into technology's impact on culture, including numerous essays and talks with organisations like 5x15. He runs House of Thought, an artistic research practice and consultancy focusing on bridging creative, critical thinking and technology and is part of Planetary Portals, a research collective with Kathryn Yusoff, Kerry Holden and Casper Laing Ebbensgaard.

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Published in October 2023 by Calamari Archive (Press). Read an extract from the afterword in the Paris Review.

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Edited by writer and artist Michael Salu, fifteen of today’s most daring writers from across the globe read and respond to Italo Calvino’s seminal essay ‘Cybernetics and Ghosts’ with rich and expansive works of fiction.

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Published in August 2024 by Tangerine Press.

53 Signed limited edition Chapbooks of my essay WHAT LIES BEYOND THE RED EARTH?, on AI, subjectivity and colonialism.