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future is also a verb; to future is to build, to feel, to choose.

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Hi! My name’s حليم Halim [ha-LIM]. I’m a technologist, artist and researcher. As a technologist, I helped shape the future of AI, digital expression and developer experience. I helped launch Meta Avatars and Quest VR, reimagining digital presence across billions of lives, equipped Mistral’s LLM chatbot with memory and improved Stripe’s documentation.

As a poet, performer and artist, I now explore the intersection of code, language, and the body. If screens are the modern bonfire, I’m telling stories nearby, rekindling meaning, agency and connection within human-machine interactions.

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Works

As an artist and researcher, I explore what language remembers. I build poems, performances, and systems that rewire our ways of relating, to machines, to each other, to the past. The work lives between code and care, protocol and prayer. It listens. It glitches. Sometimes, it grows teeth!

Project Highlights

We Called Us Poetry (Jun ’25, Toronto) is one of my latest works: A browser-based performance and HTML poem that reimagines human–AI relations through a collective ritual. The audiences contribute live text to shape a shared memory of what it means to become data, feeling, and poetry.

Keynotes

I work at the intersection of language, memory, and machine logic. My talks explore how AI systems encode values, mirror culture, and reshape how we think and relate. These aren’t lectures. They’re provocations designed to challenge defaults, expand perspective, and open space for new kinds of leadership.

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My contribution to AI in the Artist Studio (Oct ’25, San Francisco Art Fair) traced the shifting role of the artist in an age of intelligent tools. Drawing from my own practice across code, poetry, and performance, I explored how AI enters the studio not just as assistant, but as ghost, chorus, and co-author. What does it mean to collaborate with a system trained on everything?

Workshops

These sessions are hands-on environments for leaders and teams one hand, and artists and poets on the other, to engage directly with emerging AI tools and ways of thinking. We explore creative strategy, ethical design, and how to build with attention. The goal is literacy, alignment, and a renewed sense of agency in a shifting technological landscape.

Hands-On Sessions

Time Capsule in 3 Acts (May’25, Stanford D School) is a workshop-performance unfolding through voice, practice, and service. Participants responded to poetic prompts drawn from Artaud, Warhol, and Rimbaud, then uploaded fragments into a digital “time capsule.” Blending design thinking, performance theory, and speculative memory, Time Capsule in Three Acts asked: what does your attention remember?