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Issue 01 // Spring 2024

Genesis Code

Creation Stories in the Digital Age

Table of Contents

Poetry

  • "Hello World" by Sarah Chen12
  • "Recursive Dreams" by Marcus Johnson18
  • "Binary Sonnets" by Priya Patel24

Fiction

  • "The Algorithm of Love" by Elena Rodriguez32
  • "Digital Ghosts" by Kenji Nakamura45

Essays

  • "On Machine Learning and Human Memory" by Alex Thompson58
  • "The Poetics of Code" by Maya Singh67

Visual Art

  • "Glitch Portraits" by Luis Moreno78
  • "Data Landscapes" by Sophie Kim84

Editor's Note

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Velum. In "Genesis Code," we explore what it means to create in the digital age. Our contributors have wrestled with questions of authorship, originality, and the blurred lines between human and machine creativity.

From Sarah Chen's opening poem that reimagines the programmer's first "Hello World" as a creation myth, to Luis Moreno's haunting glitch portraits that find beauty in digital decay, this issue celebrates the unexpected poetry of our technological moment.

We hope these works inspire you to see the creative potential in every line of code, every algorithm, and every digital interaction.

— The Editors