Miara Sung (née Jongmin Jerome Baek; they/them) is a scholar and poet living in Korea.

Their research is motivated by the question: how can mathematical logic be used as the backbone of humanistic philosophy without reducing humans to mathematical equations? They are currently working on a monograph responding to this question, Madness and Consent. The book investigates how to think with mathematical rigor about flesh and sexual violence.

Poetry, particularly performed rather than written, informs their practice. Miara performed at Seattle Lit Crawl with the poet and novelist Emmanuelle Pierrot on the topic of "No, rape and calculation", where they explored the repetitive, recursive aftermath of sexual assault. Manuscript available on request.

A long time ago, they created the video game 6180 the moon with the indie studio Turtle Cream. The core mechanism of this puzzle-platformer is that the top and bottom of the screen are connected in a recursive loop. While recursion is often experienced as stultifying, they aimed to design a liberating feeling, an unbounded jump, arising from recursion.

Here is their Artist-Academic CV, and their Technical CV.