Irene Caesar is a Russian-born philosopher, mystic, poet and conceptual artist based in New York City. Her early work in Russia in the late 1980s and early 1990s focused on esoteric themes and mysticism. Currently, her art and writing explore both esoteric and exoteric topics. Her most recent project from 2008-2009 is called "A New History of Ideas in Pictures" and uses absurd photography to challenge outdated cultural, moral and political concepts. She is concerned about the emergence of a post-human society with computational biology and nanotechnology slowly transforming humans into bio-computers.