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THE ASTRONOMER
Mihai Gavrilescu
@lemagepoet
POET · PHOTOGRAPHER · ML RESEARCHER
Poet, photographer, and machine learning researcher exploring the boundaries where language meets computation. Based in Bucharest, I work at the intersection of art and artificial intelligence -- writing verse that maps the silence between data points, capturing photographs of the unseen, and publishing research on neural architectures and the poetics of attention.
Selenarium is my creative home -- a place for quiet observation, deep reading, and the kind of thinking that requires darkness to see clearly. Here you will find poetry in two languages, photography that listens more than it looks, music composed in the hours between midnight and dawn, and research that asks what happens when machines learn to pay attention.
“I write to find out what I didn't know I knew. I photograph to remember what I haven't seen yet.”
ACADEMIC CV
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate, Computational Linguistics — University of Bucharest, 2022–present M.Sc. Computer Science, AI — Politehnica University, 2020
SELECTED PUBLICATIONSNeural Architectures and the Poetics of Attention (2025) On Machine Grief: Can Artificial Systems Experience Loss? (2024) Generative Verse: Fine-Tuning LLMs on Poetic Corpora (2024)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Romanian National Poetry Prize, 2024 Best Paper, ACL Workshop on Creativity & NLP, 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2022 Carpathian Arts Residency Fellow, 2023
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COLLABORATORS & PARTNERS
NEMIRAPublisher
Publishing partner since 2022. Nemira has brought three poetry collections to print, with distribution across Romania and select European bookstores.
Visit Nemira →MNACMuseum
Ongoing exhibition partnership with the National Museum of Contemporary Art. Two solo photography exhibitions and a permanent collection placement.
Visit MNAC →DILEMA VECHEMagazine
Monthly poetry column since 2023. Selected poems are first published in Dilema Veche before appearing on the Selenarium.
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Exclusive retail partner for signed first editions. Book launches and reading events hosted at Cărturești Carusel, Bucharest.
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