a multimedia arts + sciences collective
The CORTEX Collective is an experimental multimedia arts and sciences collective run by undergraduate students at Yale University. We work together to create and showcase genre-bending digital and physical collections each semester.
We are storytellers, painters, composers, animators, photographers, essayists, poets, dancers, musicians, screenwriters, and programmers interested in all things scientific (and speculative).
CORTEX is dedicated to being a space for all types of artists to experiment alongside each other – a creative laboratory.
for artists
illustrate long-form science-fiction stories; write poetry about the natural world; compose soundtracks for floating cities and planets
scientists
help writers design diagrams of future cities; consult on fictional medicines and machines; create schematics for the physics of impossible universes
& you
if you want to work with cortex, but there isn’t something listened specifically for you, please reach out!
cortexmagazine@gmail.com
Imagining
Explore a world where cytoarchitecture has been converted into a real-life city under a dome due to climate change, or a series of diary entries from a patient with a degenerative brain disease. We want long-form art that can turn into storybooks, films, poetry collections, and live performance.
Examining
What role will AI play in creative writing in the future? How do we create memories in virtual spaces that feel temporary? We aim to grapple with open-ended science-related questions, but from an interdisciplinary approach that heavily involves the humanities and arts.
Collaborating
We are always looking to collaborate with outside organizations. example, we might partner with an architectural group and ask architects to submit visions of how they envision a house or field in the Metaverse. Inspired by these, we will ask for submissions from writers of flash fiction that take place in these designed houses.
stay curious
send us your reading recommendations & letters to the editors at cortexmagazine@gmail.com
we want to hear from you
the sublime
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury
Edit, score, write, or illustrate for CORTEX.