Who We Are

Machines in Between is a collaboration between artists and philosophers, historians and sound ecologists, musicians and biologists, poets, photographers and sound engineers, sopranos and CEOs, conservationists, romantic scientists, and you. 

John Modern, producer and co-host

John Modern is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

Libby Modern, art director and co-host

Libby Modern is the founder of Modern Art, a storefront studio and graphic design business in Lancaster, PA focused on public outreach, neighborhood engagement and hope. 

Creative and Technical Partners: 

Nicky Kroll, sound engineer
Mike Newman, sound engineer
Jenny Schulder, staff photographer
Cory McAbee, romantic scientist
DJ Image,  sound ecologist
Teb Locke, tech heroics
Matt Johnson, beloved luvvy
Holly Andrew, beloved luvvy
Bom Bom, web design

Advisory Board:

Courtney Bender, Columbia University
Sylvester Johnson,
Virginia Tech University
Lerone Martin,
Stanford University
Hillary Kaell,
McGill University

Audio Collaborators

❤️ Courtney Bender fine human
🚥 Suzanne van Geuns link tree architect
🗜 Isaac Kelly is a large language licenser
🪤 Craig Calhoun chatbot party planner
🧿 Jenny Schulder Brant health artist
💾 Matt Johnson beloved luvvy
💓 Holly Andrew beloved luvvy
🌪 Hillary Kaell inflectionist
🏓 Rob Rosener human hybrid firewall
📘 Austin Case bandwith bouncer
🚲 Cory McAbee Romantic Scientist
🔌 Amber Mann block chain splitter
📢 Mohammad "Moody" Moussavi data corrupter
🦞 Nielsen Family Band crack team of data escape artists
🎙 Doc Roc syntactic relations engineer
🔎 Daniel Ardia statistical stylist
🍽 Annette Aronowicz virtual reality detector
🔭 Maceo Whatley silicon survivalist
📊 Roxy Calder data replacement surgeon
🛸 Susannah Crockford data apocalypse exterminator
👽 Jamaal Washington data deconstructionist
🔧 Teb Locke is our resident technician
🧮 Tami Lantz cost estimator
🪑 Susannah Ardia a McCaskey High School 11th grader
🕸 Mark Taylor station stationeer
🧩 Jeremy Seedorf extinction revivalist
🚀 Stephen M. Nelson systems stylist
🌂 Dennis Herbert energy harvester
📿 Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada skill quantifier
🚬 Peter Coviello systems aggregator
👩 Joan Scott full-stack neuro enhancer
✍️ Tim Ingold accessibility specialist
🚐 Joseph Blankholm post-normal jobs counselor
🚗 Elizabeth Wilson smart road engineer
🗝 Myrna Perez Sheldon animator
🧬 Donovan Schaefer digital immunologist
🎥 Judith Weisenfeld quantum researcher
🪜 Cristian Toro circulation engineer
🦄 Maeva Kroll growth hacker
🎰 Drew Bourn organizational quartermaster
🧠 Jon Rubin autonomous vehicle operator
💳 Finbarr Curtis automation engineer
🚔 Kerry Mitchell Markov chain assembler
🥃 Wendy Wiseman data hostage specialist
🐦 Anthea Butler frivolity exterminator
🐳 Chip Callahan epistemology consultant
📼 Elijah Siegler 3-D food printer chef
📺 Jessica Johnson demand optimizer
🌊 Atéha Bailly dream excavator
🦠 Alison Renna emergency crew for when things go wrong
🌲 Fritz Schroeder involvement specialist
🍼 Rhon Manigault-Bryant future guide
⚡️ Charles McCrary plant psychologist
🌊 Shannon Trosper Schorey anonymity advocate
🌊 Andrew Aghapour visual aesthetic reductionist
🏎️ Brian Connolly simulation capitalist
😇 Melissa M. Wilcox time bank trader
🍄 Angela Zimmerman back-end developer
👄 Ari Kelman algorithmic dancer
⛓️ Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh extinction revivalist
🧠 Joseph Del Pesco transhumanist consultant
🌙 Beatrice Marovich avatar relationship manager
🦉 Superb Owl a trio of anonymity advocates
🦠 Lukey Ellsberg digital archeologist
🌙 Krista Dragomer nanofabricator
🤯 Anna Bigelow predictive scrivener processor
🎧 M. Cooper Harris stationeer
💊 Mayanthi Fernando data concierge
⛰️ Ann Neumann cloud architect
🔔 Bernard Dionysius Goeghegan framework developer
⚔️ Mary-Jane Rubenstein epistemology consultant
⚙️ Tomas Matza personal brand deactivator
🤖 Nathan Schneider secondary opportunity developer
🍆 William Robert freelance conceptual acrobat
🐄 Rachel Feldman network rabble rouser
🙊 Nicole Heller frivolity exterminator
🍑 Ahmad Greene-Hayes ethical hacker
💣 Kevin Hamilton epistemology consultant
🤘 Alireza Doostdar data contextualst
📼 Sylvia Alajaji memory hacker
🎹 Ashon Crawley augmented reality architect
🏰 Charles Hirschkind lab animal
✂️ Stefania Pandolfo pixel profiler
⛽️ Emily Ogden robot doula
🗑️ Maia Kotrosits cost estimator
💣 Johanna Gosse clone rancher
⚔️ Jenna Supp-Montgomerie feedback looper
👂 Philip Butler time bank trader