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Fall 2025 at SFPC invokes the trickster as both methodology and muse—centering play, error, and subversion as vital strategies for steering technology towards solidarity and wonder. Like a deck of cards tossed into the air, this season delights in the unexpected configurations that emerge when systems are disrupted and rules momentarily suspended. Our classes approach computation as a site of poetic misbehavior and political possibility: from comedic interventions in everyday software to sampling as a form of cultural memory, from rapid game-making to community-centered infrastructure. Uncover what becomes possible when we misuse tools, question authorship, and treat refusal, repair, and relationality as guiding principles for poetic practice.
Fall 2025
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organized by
Neta Bomani
Neta Bomani is a community organizer, educator, and zine maker. She is the co-director of programs at the School for Poetic Computation and co-director of Sojourners for Justice Press—an imprint of Haymarket Books. Neta is also the co-founder of the Black Zine Fair. Their work has been exhibited or collected by the Brooklyn Museum, the Barnard Zine Library, The Kitchen, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library. Neta received a graduate degree in Interactive Telecommunications from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Her practice empowers people to critically engage with technology; embody abolitionist, Black feminist, and do-it-yourself philosophies; and co-create liberatory systems.
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Todd Anderson
Todd Anderson is a digital poet, software artist and educator based in New York City. He has been making experimental software art for over 10 years including the live interactive poetry project Hotwriting, the Chrome Extension ARG 'An Experience', the performance-inside-the-browser extension HitchHiker, and multiple plays and performances with the multidisciplinary group H0t Club. He is perhaps best known as the host and curator of WordHack, the monthly language+technology talk series in NYC running every third Thursday since 2014. .
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Omayeli Arenyeka
Yeli is a Nigerian artist, writer, and technologist based in Brooklyn. She primarily makes things that live on the internet. She is interested in the creative and critical possibilities of the web and data: its potentials for personal expression, solidarity and fostering disillusionment.
Max Fowler
Max Fowler is an artist and programmer working with offline-first software, mycology and community infrastructure. They are a contributor to PeachCloud, software that makes hosting peer to peer software on local low-power hardware more accessible. They are also a co-founder of KiezPilz (kiezpilz.de), a communal fungi cultivation group based in Berlin. They were a student at the School For Poetic Computation in 2016, and later a TA. They are one of the admins of sunbeam.city, and are interested in foraging, flip-phones, rust and html.
Blake Andrews
Blake Andrews is a game designer, illustrator, animator, and instructor living in New York. They have taught game design at both Bloomfield College and Pratt Institute. Since graduating from New York University’s Game Design MFA program, Blake has been involved with installations and events at Babycastles, Wonderville, and Red Parry. The Babycastles installation, Ribbit’s Frog World, involved several large indoor pits of mud.
Blake’s games are confrontational both mechanically and narratively. They frequently use a distinct low fidelity, crude, cartoon style. Their hundreds of small games are hosted on websites like Glorious Trainwrecks and itch.io.
Outside of digital games and art, Blake shows an enthusiasm for alternative controllers. One of their collaborations with Frank DeMarco, Scrapeboard, has the player scraping a real skateboard, without wheels, on metal pads in order to defeat enemies like Kool Man. Scrapeboard has been featured at alt.ctrl.gdc, a Puma release party, a LilyPichu video, and in The New Yorker.
Herdimas Anggara
Heheheheherdimas appropriates the affordances of technology to simulate trances, rituals, and other existential crashes. Hehehehehe bends platforms unhehehehehelpfully, until they hehehehehesitate and crash under the weight of their own interface logic. This bio itself is experiencing formatting instability. So is Heheheheherdimas. Hehehehehe holds an MFA from Yale School of Art, where hehehehehe spent just enough time staring at screens to convince them to stare back. Hehehehehe now works as an Assistant Professor at VCUarts, where hehehehehe teaches students to trick infrastructure, stage malfunctions, and occasionally hoodwink each other. Hehehehehe.
Meghna Mahadevan
Rooted in Kerala, Inspired by Oakland, Born, Raised, and Residing in Atlanta, GA, Meghna Mahadevan is a community technologist, in the terms of technology as a range of tools for human progress. They experiment with building programs, initiatives, relationships, and creations as a way to make meaning of the world around them and as a practice of hope for the future. Meghna’s projects range from organizing for larger movements of technology justice, multimedia storytelling via sound and photography, gathering people together, collective building, djing QTBIPOC+ parties in the South, and investigating autonomous technology infrastructure outside the US. Meghna has co-founded two collectives, intent on relational based methods to organizing, synthesizing, and visioning. Their work has been featured in protocol, NPR, Balamii Radio, Lower Grand Radio, LA Times, and more. Meghna has a degree in industrial engineering from georgia tech with a focus on computer science. They enjoy spending time with friends, exploring hinduism through a queer abolitionist lens, and dancing at all times of the day and night.
Cameron A. Granger
Cameron A. Granger is an artist from Cleveland, Ohio, and Sandra’s son. A Ohio enthusiast, he makes work about the power structures that shape our cities, and how we make our lives therein. He’s an alumni of Euclid Public Schools.
Devin Kaif Kenny
Devin Kenny is an artist, writer, and musician.
Born on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, Kenny relocated to New York City as a teenager. Kenny went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts from University of California, Los Angeles, in addition to attending the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Kenny has participated in residencies at the Rauschenberg Foundation, SOMA Mexico, Bemis Center, MFAH Core, Shandaken Projects, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Kenny has exhibited, performed, and lectured across the United States, and in galleries and institutions abroad. Select venues include MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Performance Space, REDCAT, Queens Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CAM in Houston, and the IMT Gallery in London among others. substack: devinkkenny instagram: crashingwavy and on Nina Protocol and Bandcamp as Devin KKenny.
Rasim Bayramov
Rasim Bayramov (b. 2000, Baku, Azerbaijan; based in the U.S) is a designer who through their work try to explore ideas of comfort, connection, and detachment through reinterpreted rituals, bureaucratic infrastructures, physical ephemera and post-post soviet simple technologies. They try to make it happen through websites, interactive and standalone installations, print, videos, performances and sculptures that invite others to experience these combinations, transforming the human body into a collective interface. They received their BSc in Industrial Design from the Middle East Technical University and their MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. So far, their work has included 8 webcams, 6 ethernet and power cables, 9 screens, 13 laptops, 14 phones, 2 red cups, 5 QR codes, 1 old TV, paper, 5 pears, a keyboard, a mouse, 8 transparent acrylics, 64 carpet tiles, 1 thermal printer, 1 receipt spike, 1 cash exchange window, and 3 flowers.
Weitong “Shanmu” Sun
Stories, once created, will never end. Same as the tales of the digital world. Weitong “ShanMu” Sun (born in Jinan, China) is an experimental artist who explores live simulation, digital storytelling, artificial intelligence, and the methodology of programming languages. Her practice explores the complexity of emerging technology and computation as an alternative narrative container. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Black Brick Project (NYC, US), Instinc (Singapore), Rubicon (Australia), ICAVCU (Richmond, VA), and others. She earned an MFA in Kinetic Imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University and holds a BS in computer science with minors in Mathematics and Arts from the University of Delaware. She is teaching Creative Code & Electronics at VCUarts Kinetic Imaging.
Maybe Tucker
Maybe Tucker is a Black lesbian poet, dj, and hopefully more. They are fond of weird sounds, horror movies, and making things up. They are curious about Blackness as a means for computation. You can find them online as @grlcomputer on instagram and soundcloud.
lee nok'si livingston
lee nok'si livingston is exploring radical imagination strategies for building & mapping alternative worlds through artmaking, writing, organizing, and research.
Sim
Sim is a multimedia communicator and researcher focused on addressing privacy rights and digital literacy. They make videos, websites, and frame interactive scenarios. Currently, they are a research fellow at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy and organizer with Amnesty's Tech and Human Rights Task Force in New York. They hold a graduate degree from the Interactive Telecommunications program and live by the motto "accidents happen".
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io hushpuppie
Io Hushpuppie is a hacker, tech angel, volcano enthusiast, power-lifter, multi-media artist, world builder, and a friend of every dog. They started building computers from spare parts as a child and now host cybersecurity workshops geared toward sex workers. They co-created Cyborg Support Club, a virtual community teaching fundamental information security skills and somatic integration ,techniques.Io, makes airbrush shirts, sews weird stuffed animals, draws comics, and creates stop-motion animations.They like to make interactive art like bingo boards, divination tools, goofy websites, and draw little doodles on love notes for their friends and neighbours.They are currently working to grow the Tucson Mesh Network, a community-controlled wireless internet network. Organizing the next convergence for DeepMay, a 10-day experimental autonomous tech camp. Hosting Cyborg Support Club #4 and brewing up infinite possibilities :) .
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