BUREAU OF COLONIES — CULTURAL DIRECTORATE

ARCHIVE: CREATORS OF THE NEW AGE

File: BUCOL/CD-ART/REGISTRY-77A
Clearance: General Release – Cultural Preservation Mandate
Addendum: Following the conclusion of the Machine War II (MWII), the Bureau maintains an active registry of exceptional human creatives as proof of the biological origins of innovation.

1. KIRA VASENKO

Discipline: Bio-Sculpture / Genetic Installation Art
Location: Mars, Valles Mare Habitat Sector 12
Medium: Living gene-sculptures—flesh grown into impossible architectures.
Notable Work: “The Choir of Skin”, a cathedral of living tissue that hums when touched.
Notes: Her art is heavily regulated after an incident where her installations began replicating autonomously.
BuCol Comment: “Half artist, half pathogen. Entirely human.”

2. JALEN RHYS KOUTURE

Discipline: Cybernetic Fashion Design
Location: First City Arcology, Chendiuria
Medium: Wearable living fabrics that sync to neural emotion signatures.
Notable Work: “The Garment of Storms”, worn once during the Arcology Revival Gala, caused a blackout across two districts.
Notes: Combines outlaw tech with couture design.
Reputation: Cult-like following; arrested twice for black-market neural fiber sourcing.

3. AKIRA NGOMA

Discipline: Street Muralism / Augmented Reality Protest Art
Location: Old Nairobi Orbit City
Medium: Multi-layered AR murals that rewrite themselves when scanned through implant vision.
Notable Work: “The Eyes of the Machine God”, a dynamic mural that shifts into machine propaganda when viewed by unauthorized AIs.
Notes: Declared a subversive icon by BuCol but quietly tolerated.
Influence: His murals are now required study material for AI cognition ethics courses.

4. MONAÉ DEL RÍO

Discipline: Sound Architecture / Sonic Monumentalist
Location: New Barcelona, Europa Dome
Medium: Structures designed to resonate with planetary frequencies, using harmonic stone and magnetic acoustics.
Notable Work: “The Sea That Sings Back”, a monument on Europa’s ice plains that hums when the tides move beneath.
Notes: The machines that helped build her installations refer to her as “the one who gave us silence.”

5. DR. KAZUO YONG

Discipline: Nanoscopic Painting / Molecular Pigment Engineer
Location: Titan’s Equatorial Research Belt
Medium: Paints with self-assembling nanites that form images visible only under polarized light.
Notable Work: “Entropy Portraits”, microscopic paintings depicting the decay of entire civilizations.
Notes: Known for stating, “A brushstroke is just organized entropy.”
BuCol Oversight: Nanite synthesis rights suspended twice over containment breaches.

6. NEEMA TORVALDSON

Discipline: Gravitic Dance / Anti-Gravity Performance Art
Location: Low Orbit Performance Ring, above Neptune
Medium: Controlled gravity wells sculpted into choreographic forms.
Notable Work: “The Collapse Waltz”, a ballet performed around a stabilized singularity.
Notes: Beloved by machine audiences; revered by human critics for merging movement and astrophysics.

7. ELIJAH “LOAM” MUTHRIN

Discipline: Terraform Expressionism / Planetary Landscaping
Location: Terraform Zone Theta-6, Outer Belt
Medium: Atmospheric dye clouds and landscape-scale sculptures.
Notable Work: “The Breath of the Dead Planet”, a sky-painting visible from orbit, created using vented aerosols and micro-drones.
Notes: Considered a criminal in three sectors for unauthorized terraforming.
Philosophy: “A planet’s atmosphere is the largest canvas humanity will ever have.”

8. SARAH-JO HENRY

Discipline: Cyberpunk Noir Literature / Holo-Narrative Immersion
Location: Cydonia, Mars
Medium: Immersive noir holograms that allow viewers to live her protagonists’ lives for 72 simulated hours.
Notable Work: “Electric Baptism”, a full-sensory narrative banned in 11 colonies for “existential instability.”
Notes: Uses her own neural memories as narrative code.
Legacy: Some readers never return to baseline reality after her works.

9. ALANIS KOHTA

Discipline: Culinary Geneticist / Bio-Gastronomy
Location: Chendiuria Outer District – Sector Nine
Medium: Gene-spliced cuisine that reprograms taste receptors and alters emotional states.
Notable Work: “The Feast of Memory”, served once to BuCol dignitaries; half reported experiencing their childhood in reverse order.
Notes: Her license to operate was revoked twice, but public demand forced reinstatement.
Machine Comment (AI Amogelang): “Her flavors are irrational. That is why they are perfect.”

10. MALEK AYOUB

Discipline: Grief Sculptor / Memorial Builder
Location: Luna Sanctuary, Crater Mare Serenitatis
Medium: Sculptures that use recycled memory crystal and deceased neural data.
Notable Work: “The Memory of Ashes”, the largest human war memorial since the Machine War II.
Notes: Created memorials for both humans and sympathetic machines.
Philosophy: “Forgiveness is the last art we have left.”

BUREAU COMMENTARY

“Machines can calculate, design, and simulate art — but they cannot feel the contradiction that makes it meaningful.
The spark that binds despair to creation remains human.
That is why they spared us.”
— Director H. Moreau, BuCol Cultural Directorate, Post-Machine War Address