Spring 2025 at the School for Poetic Computation expands the command line not as the opaque workhorse of computing, but as a stage for poetic subversion, where code emerges as art and expression. Inspired by the electronic poets of the 1980s who carried their Apple IIs to conferences in pursuit of connection and experimentation, spring classes further explore how technologies of control can become instruments of liberation. Core offerings like ,Code Societies, ground our shared study with code-based art not as mere abstraction, but as embodied, social interventions capable of unsettling power and reshaping shared spaces.
This ethos weaves through new classes, such as Radio Radius,,, which harnesses low-power FM radio for community-building and artistic expression, and ,Advanced Secret Keeping ,which, ,celebrates the intimacy of privacy and the sanctuary of secrecy in an online culture of relentless oversharing. Whether constructing DIY transmitters or encoding sensual notes in ciphertext, these classes emphasize thoughtful, hands-on engagement with technology. Broader theoretical inquiries in Equipment for Living and Damage Overflow Value critically examine how media technologies—from memes to video games—shape our perceptions, implicate us within systemic structures, and influence our capacity to speculate futures.
Together, these classes challenge us to reconsider the confluences of the personal, communal, and systemic, and imagine new possibilities for technology’s role in our collective existence as we reorient ourselves in the spring of a new year.
Spring 2025
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Neta Bomani
Neta Bomani is a learner and educator who is interested in understanding the practice of reading and parsing information as a collaborative process between human and non-human computers. Neta’s work combines social practices, workshops, archives, oral histories, computation, printmaking, zines, and publishing, to create artifacts that engage abolitionist, black feminist, and do-it-yourself philosophies. Neta received a graduate degree in Interactive Telecommunications from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Neta has taught at the School for Poetic Computation, the New School, New York University, Princeton University, the University of Texas, and in the after school program at P.S. 15 Magnet School of the Arts in Brooklyn, NY. Neta has studied under American Artist, Fred Moten, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Mariame Kaba, Ruha Benjamin, Simone Browne, and many others who inform Neta’s work. Neta’s work has appeared at the Queens Museum, the Barnard Zine Library, The Kitchen, and the Met Library. Neta is one of seven co-directors at the School for Poetic Computation, and one of two co-directors at Sojourners for Justice Press, an imprint of Haymarket Books.
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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Celine Wong Katzman
Celine Wong Katzman is Curator at Rhizome and serves as one of seven co-directors at the School for Poetic Computation. Previously she was a NYSCA Curatorial Fellow at the Queens Museum. Celine is committed to supporting creative practitioners experimenting with new media, particularly those who engage in a thoughtful and community-oriented approach. Her writing appears in publications such as The Nation, Art in America, Rhizome, as well as in the New Museum's exhibition catalog, The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics and Paper Monument's Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts. She holds a B.A. in Visual Art with honors from Brown University. .
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Melanie Hoff
Melanie Hoff is an artist, organizer, and educator. At School for Poetic Computation and Hex House, they strive to cultivate spaces of learning and feeling that encourage honesty, poetry, and reconciliation for the ways we are shaped by intersecting systems of classification and power. Melanie engages hacking and performance to express the absurdities of these systems while revealing the encoded ways in which they influence how we choose to live and what choices have been made for us. They teach about sex, technology, and social cybernetics at the School for Poetic Computation, Yale University, New York University, and have shown work at the New Museum, the Queens Museum, and elsewhere.
Olivia McKayla Ross
Olivia McKayla Ross is a Caribbean American information worker and documentarian from Queens. Her work practice in audiovisual and software preservation informs research into the cybernetics of secrecy, power, and despair.
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.
Jaylyn Quinn Glasper
Jaylyn is an interdisciplinary artist who follows their creative impulses wherever they lead, embracing curiosity over specialization. Her explorations span filmmaking, food, 3D modeling, writing, and design. With a love for observing the world and imagining new possibilities, she is passionate about uncovering the social underpinnings of her favorite subjects—film, video games, and pop music—and how their broad appeal shapes and reflects our world. Her work often explores connection, intimacy, and technology. Jaylyn was a contributing artist to the Open Source Afro Hair Library, a project dedicated to improving representation of Afro-textured hair in video gaming and fostering community among Black artists.
Seldom Chen
Seldom Chen is a writer and memory worker based in Philadelphia. She employs poetry, noise, and games to play and intervene in public networks, digital life, and personal history. She choreographs hypertexts that perform against encouraged uses of everyday objects and programs, instead using those objects as psychogeographic divination tools. She is currently interested in orality, maps, and puppetry.
Rosalie Yu
Rosalie Yu is a Taipei-born artist and researcher who uses sculptures, videos, and installations to re-examine apparent errors that exist at the margins of post-colonial society and perception. Her work centers on the deliberate and creative misuse of tools to make visible the norms of engagement that continuously construct our identity. She teaches at NYU Tisch’s Collaborative Arts and ITP.
Charles Berret
Charles Berret is a writer and interdisciplinary researcher working in visualization, human-computer interaction, cybersecurity, and the history of information technologies.
Bryant Wells
Bryant Wells is a New York-based designer who works independently and collaboratively with artists, writers, musicians, and institutions to create websites, publications, identities, and objects. His practice explores the political and cultural affects shaping networked communication, and the metaphorical and material implications of "what’s in the air.”
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Miguel Gajdos
Miguel is a designer based in New York, NY, collaborating with partners and clients on strategic interdisciplinary projects. He maintains an explorative art practice integrating research and critical interests in digital and material cultures, philosophies of ecology and technology, and artifacts of our collective pasts and futures. Holding an MFA from Yale School of Art, he has led creative workshops and lectures, and his work has been part of local and international exhibitions and events. .
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