Signal & Soul explores the stories, choices, and experiences that shape who we become.

August 14, 2025

Data carries human agency and intention, yet digital systems treat people as anonymous points. On the difference between consent given and consent taken, and what it would mean for technologists to recognize the humanity inside the algorithm — to build systems capable of care rather than only optimization.

Every signal begins with recognition.

September 1, 2025

Digital systems leave residue — patterns that persist long after the moment that made them. Algorithms, surveillance, and recommendation engines shape our decisions and our sense of self. Reclaiming agency begins with recognizing those echoes not as glitches, but as forces that ask to be named.

Identity is where story meets signal.

July 31, 2026

What happens when silence is not absence, but architecture? On systems that cannot recommend what has never been named, and what it costs a body to go unrecorded.

July 31, 2026

Elias Vance volunteers for an epigenetic bioengineering trial that was never built for people who look like him. A story about medical hope, medical mistrust, and the quiet calculus of what it costs to be somebody's data point — and what it costs not to be.

July 31, 2026

The Signal and Soul series presentation of A Statistical Anomaly — Elias Vance's decision, and what it costs to be counted.