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Brittney Smaila works where neuroscience, cognitive systems, and poetry overlap. Her Community Spotlight focuses on that meeting point: research questions become material for language, and language becomes a way to notice the emotional weight inside abstract debates about intelligence and identity.
The wider video archive also preserves her live spoken-word work, including a performance about digital twins and the teleportation paradox. This portrait uses the dedicated spotlight recording, while those longer performances remain available on their own terms. Brittney brings a different instrument into the room, one that can slow a technical conversation down long enough for its human consequences to register.
