Pratt faculty member Christian Hawkey is an American writer and poet. He was educated at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He presents a lecture entitled "No Sun, Sheer Flow: Embodied Conversational Agents and the Poetics of Discontortion". He begins the lecture by manually typing the words to the lecture on the projected screen in front of the audience. He follows with a poem recital and a description of his definition of sheering. He breaks down the structure of his poems highlighting indications and demarcations that are nestled within the words and sentences.