Musical artist
Claire L. Evans is an American singer, writer and artist based in Los Angeles , California . She is the lead singer of the pop duo YACHT .[ 1]
Evans joined YACHT in 2008 after sharing a "mystical experience" with collaborator Jona Bechtolt and has recorded four albums, namely See Mystery Lights , Shangri-La , I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler , and Chain Tripping with Bechtolt.[ 2] She also appeared as a guest on YACHT's third album I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real . Known for her androgynous onstage persona as a performer, she has been called a "neo-Annie Lennox " by The New York Times .[ 1] NPR music journalist Bob Boilen has referred to her as "one of the most striking performers I've seen in a rock band".[ 3]
In addition, Evans is a journalist and author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet .[ 4] With a popular science and culture blog titled Universe, hosted by National Geographic 's Scienceblogs network,[ 5] her essay for Universe "Moon Art: Fallen Astronaut" was anthologized in The Best Science Writing Online 2012 .[ 6] She also writes for Vice , The Guardian , Wired and Aeon . In August 2013, she became the editor-in-chief of OMNI Reboot , a new online version of the science magazine OMNI .[ 7] She is the former Futures Editor of Motherboard, Vice ' s technology and science website.
She is a member of the feminist collective Deep Lab .[ 8] She is the creator of the App 5 Every Day.[ 9]
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References
^ a b Spiridakis, Elizabeth (15 October 2009). "The Insider - Yacht's Claire Evans" . tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved 27 June 2016 .
^ "Sent from Space: YACHT's Claire Evans" . Mother Jones. Retrieved 2013-12-19 .
^ Boilen, Bob (2011-06-22). "YACHT: Tiny Desk Concert" . NPR. Retrieved 2013-12-19 .
^ Addie Wagenknecht. (March 5, 2018). "How Claire Evans Is Writing Women Back Into The Internet" . Forbes . Retrieved July 18, 2018 .
^ "Universe - Always Expanding" . Scienceblogs.com. 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-12-19 .
^ Evans, Claire L. (2012-09-20). "The Best Science Writing Online 2012 – Universe" . Scienceblogs.com. Retrieved 2013-12-19 .
^ Robertson, Adi (2013-08-08). "Omni, reboot: an iconic sci-fi magazine goes back to the future" . The Verge. Retrieved 2013-12-19 .
^ Wendy Syfret (20 July 2015). "exploring feminist hacktivism with deep lab" . i-d.vice.com . i-d Vice . Archived from the original on 26 July 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2016 .
^ a b French, Agatha (23 March 2018). "Claire L. Evans created an app, leads the band Yacht and now has written a book about female tech pioneers" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 18 June 2018 .
^ "Science's Invisible Women" . The New York Times . 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2020-04-04 .
^ Evans, Claire L.; Cart, Lee E. "BROAD BAND" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved 2020-04-04 .
^ Merchant, Brian; Evans, Claire (2022). Terraform . New York: MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. ISBN 9780374602666 .
^ Clark, M.L. (16 January 2023). "Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, edited by Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans" . Strange Horizons . Retrieved 22 September 2023 .
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