Future Schools
was
organized by
Neta Bomani
Neta Bomani is a community organizer, educator, and zine maker based in New York City. She is the co-director of Sojourners for Justice Press—an abolitionist feminist press behind the Black Zine Fair—and co-director of the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), an alternative education program that brings together art, code, hardware, and critical theory through frameworks of decolonization and transformative justice. Her practice invites people to critically engage with media, embody Black feminist and DIY philosophies, and co-create liberatory systems. She has taught at New York University, Princeton University, and The New School. Her work has been exhibited or collected by the Barnard Zine Library, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and San Francisco Center for the Book.
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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Ahana Ganguly
Ahana Ganguly is a writer, editor, and SFPC’s Program Coordinator. They serve as the managing editor at Futurepoem Books, an independent press that publishes experimental poetry. As a writer, they explore bodies and the stuff they touch — their writing can be found in The HTML Review, The Offing, Tiny Molecules, and elsewhere. They hold an MFA in writing from Pratt Institute. .
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Melanie Hoff
Melanie Hoff is an artist, organizer, and technologist working within spaces of hacking and performance. Their work cultivates spaces of learning and collective reflection grounded in poetry and reconciliation for how we choose to live and what choices have been made for us. At the core of their practice is a study of intersecting systems of classification and power, building spaces—organizational and artistic—where contradictions can be held and futures rehearsed. Melanie teaches about art, sex, technology, design, and social cybernetics at Harvard, NYU, and Yale. Their work has been exhibited at the New Museum, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, and elsewhere. They co-direct Hex House, an artist's space they co-founded in Brooklyn. They also co-founded Cybernetics Library, and formerly co-directed the School for Poetic Computation where they can often be found teaching from the edges of their research and experimentation.
Taylor Levy
Taylor Levy [pron. tey-ler] is an artist & designer with a penchant for taking things apart, understanding how they work, and then putting them back together in a way that exposes their inner workings.The results take on a variety of forms from low-tech electronic sculpture to high-tech software & other executions. She has work on view at The Leonardo Museum of Science and Technology and was a resident at Fabrica Interactive in Treviso, Italy. She is an alumna of MIT Media Lab, ITP at NYU, and Vassar College.
Che-Wei Wang
Che-Wei Wang [pron. sey-wey] is an artist, designer & architect with expertise in computational and generative design, fabrication technologies, electronics, CNC machining, and metal manufacturing. The results range from architecture & sculpture to interactive installations & mobile apps. He is the winner of the 2003 SOM fellowship and the Young Alumni Achievement Award from Pratt Institute. Che-Wei has taught courses on design, time, creative computing, and inflatables, at various institutions. He is an alumnus of MIT Media Lab, ITP at NYU, and Pratt Institute.
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.
Aarati Akkapeddi
Aarati Akkapeddi is a cross-disciplinary artist, coder, and educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). They often use personal and institutional archival materials, combining computational and analog techniques like machine learning & printmaking to create artwork that investigates overlooked relationships and histories. Their creative work has been supported by institutions such as The Photographers' Gallery, ETOPIA Center for Art & Technology, and LES Printshop. They work at The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, creating digital spaces and tools.
Chia Amisola
Chia Amisola is devoted to the ambiences of the internet and its loss, love, labor, and liberation. Their offline/online work explores the intimacies of infrastructures, the labor of tools, and the poetics of machines from the domestic to the divine. They make websites, performances, and games that construct agencies and atmospheres as their 'internet ambient' practice. Chia founded and stewards Developh and the Philippine Internet Archive, communities of practices dedicated towards archipelagic internets. They are based between San Francisco and Manila.
Ahana Ganguly
Ahana Ganguly is a writer, editor, and SFPC’s Program Coordinator. They serve as the managing editor at Futurepoem Books, an independent press that publishes experimental poetry. As a writer, they explore bodies and the stuff they touch — their writing can be found in The HTML Review, The Offing, Tiny Molecules, and elsewhere. They hold an MFA in writing from Pratt Institute.
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Yvonne Mpwo
Yvonne Mpwo is a Congolese-American curator based in New York whose work explores reclamation, indigeneity, and sovereignty through exhibitions that bridge digital and material worlds. She is the founder of bana’pwo, a nonprofit curatorial residency facilitating cross-cultural exchange between artists, researchers, and architects engaging with the cultural landscapes of the Congo, as well as its publishing arm, lóbí press. Working between New York and Congo, she develops projects that foreground spatial storytelling, counter-archives, and diasporic memory through technology and material practice. Yvonne holds a Master of Science from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), where she studied Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture, focusing on diasporic visuality, technological mediation, and curatorial refusal. .
