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Spring 2026 at School for Poetic Computation gathers artists, writers, technologists, and organizers to study culture as something forged under pressure by policy, weather, platforms, and collective survival. Classes straddle theory and practice, tracing how power moves through time, intimacy, sound, computation, and play, thinking towards how we the people learn to harness it together. While corporate tech scales its threats, we look to the past to understand what we want the present to be: the internet as a site that once held room for taste, play, and self-expression beyond commodification. We work in a moment when borders harden and soften without warning, seasons refuse to meet expectations, and many of us are emerging from a long winter of isolation and precarity. Students read closely, make courageously, and think collectively within the internet, the archive, and our everyday lives as shared classrooms. Our work together is rigorous, but grounded: part study group, part workshop, part rehearsal for demanding spaces where it is safe to share what we love—where art can grow without having to ask which platform exploits us the least.
Spring 2026
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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.
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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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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Alexa Ann Bonomo
Alexa Ann Bonomo is a tech artist and scholar with a deep interest in methods in preservation and archiving who holds an extensive skillset in creative technology. Her creative work primarily lives on the internet and other ephemeral settings in the form of net art, creative writing and other worldbuilding projects. She is currently crafting lore and researching real time motion capture, simulated memory, and narrative dialog for performance based art in the World Engines Lab. Alexa curates programming and teaches with Index, works on archiving and conserving new media works with Leonardo, and is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco.
Lawra Clark
LAWRA SUITS CLARK is a videogames artist, designer, and educator living in New York, and a co-founder of Babycastles Gallery, dedicated to showcasing contemporary independent videogames and other media by marginalized creators. Lawra's personal work involves climate fiction, absurdist futures, death positivity, ambient play, and game mechanic as poetic device.
Neeti Sivakumar
Neeti Sivakumar is an artist, designer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. With a background in media arts and architecture, Sivakumar works at the intersection of body, space, and technology, with a focus on interpersonal dynamics. Through iterative and collaborative processes, her practice spans internet art, video games, architectural drawings, and performance. Sivakumar has received grants from the Goethe-Institut Mumbai, ZKM Karlsruhe, and NYU Tisch Creative Research, and has presented work at SPAM New Media Festival, Cooper Union, and NYU.
Jaye Elizabeth Elijah
Jaye Elizabeth Elijah is a poet, editor, facilitator, and professional pleasure seeker based in the high desert of New Mexico. Their work weaves eroticism, death, and ritual through language, study, and care work. Their words and images have appeared in beestung, Journal Safar, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series.
Dre Jácome
dre r. jácome (she/her) is an Andean transdisciplinary artist, storyteller, and strategist based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). A child of the Andes Mountains, the Magdalena River, and Georgia red clay, her work is rooted in land-based knowledge, relational practice, and the survival arts of everyday life. Working across traditional and emerging technologies, she weaves collective narratives across digital, physical, and ecological systems to support memory work, cultural organizing, and strategies for collective liberation. With over thirteen years of experience as a wordsmith, designer, and communications strategist, dre has stewarded narrative and infrastructure for projects spanning healing justice, abolitionist memory work, and the solidarity economy. Her creative practice bridges oral history, research, design, computation, and critical ethnobotany, often taking the form of experimental counter-archives that honor and defend BIPOC knowledge systems held in story, land, and recovering cosmologies. Her work has been featured at Lincoln Center, Smack Mellon, and MOCADA’s Abolition House. She is Communications Director at the After Violence Project, a resident artist with Flux Factory and Future Histories Studio, and a member of the Community Advisory Board at Powerhouse Arts. She holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.P.S. from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
DeForrest Brown, Jr.
DeForrest Brown, Jr. is an Alabama-raised, Ex-American rhythmanalyst, writer, musician, and curator living within the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ /Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. His written works focus on a diagnostic exploration of electronic music through considerations of applied metaphilosophy. He has released three albums on Planet Mu that channel the African American modernist tradition of rhythm and soul music as an intellectual site and sound of techno-vernacular expression. Brown’s debut book ‘Assembling a Black Counter Culture’ was released on Primary Information in 2022. In 2023, he co-curated HOPE, an international group exhibition presented by Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano-Bozen as the final installment of the TECHNO HUMANITIES trilogy. He has performed or presented work at the Venice Biennale Musica 2025, HKW, Paris+ par Art Basel, Somerset House, Unsound Festival, Performa, and has also taught courses and lectured at Simon Fraser University, The New School, NYU, Harvard University, Brown University, and Princeton University, among others. Recent collaborations include metanarrative liner notes for Cybotron, Drexciya, and Dopplereffekt developed with Detroit techno pioneers Juan Atkins and Gerald Donald, with Berlin club/record label Tresor.
Theo Ellin Ballew
Theo Ellin Ballew is a poet, educator, net.artist, and activist who grew up on 4-to-11-hour drives between cities in the greater Southwest. Theo’s net.art and e-poetry have been featured widely, and she founded ORAL.pub, a multilingual journal for net.art and e-poetry, in 2016. Recently, Theo focuses on writing code to free and/or fuck with the internet via sites like Red Calendar, online guerilla education projects, and a forthcoming website for decentralized education programs. Theo’s static (non-coded) poems ares science-fictional; many are bedtime stories. An Inch Thick came out last year with Ornithopter Press; Bedtime Stories for the Worshipped is forthcoming with Wonder Press; and individual poems have been featured in many literary magazines. Theo has taught computational art/literature, cyberfeminism, and political action in tech at RISD, Brown, CUNY Brooklyn College, and The New School; they currently teach in NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. More at theo.land/.
Ivan Zhao
Ivan Zhao is a designer, writer, & words artist based in San Francisco. His artistic work reckons with digital, diasporic, and queer identity through nonlinear narratives, forms, and mechanics. His current practice includes poetry, typography, book objects, websites, and games. His work interrogates questions, such as: how do humans interrogate computational and individual agency, or the language and visualization of translation, characters, and silences? Who defines access for legibility, and the permanence and materiality of language? His poetry can be found in places such as Prism, Foglifter, Michigan Quarterly Review, thehtml.review and elsewhere, and his work has been graciously supported by Community of Writers and Brooklyn Poetry.
Lara McConnaughy
Lara McConnaughey is an Engineer at Google DeepMind, where she focuses on the development of Gemini. She holds a B.A. in Linguistics and a B.A. in Computer Science, as well as an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mattaniah Aytenfsu
Mattaniah Aytenfsu is a new media artist, designer, and engineer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the interplay of computation, consciousness, and expression.Using code as her primary medium, Mattaniah creates generative artifacts and experiences that demystify technology and reveal its humanistic potential. Her work seeks to externalize the internal, empowering individuals to reflect on their inner worlds, their communities, and the ecosystems they inhabit.
Karina Popp
Karina makes games about banality and bodies. Her work has been selected at festivals such as the IGF, Come Out and Play, Now Play This, and Fantastic Arcade. She's currently a visiting assistant arts professor at the NYU Game Center.
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.
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Tina Horn
Tina Horn is the author of Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink — a book based on her long-running indie fetish podcast of the same name — and the sci-fi comic book series Safe Sex (SfSx). Her journalism on sexual subcultures has appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, the Wondery podcast Operator, and in anthologies such as We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, which she coedited. Tina is known for the theatrical sensibility she brings to her BDSM workshops in feminist sex boutiques, university lectures on sex worker rights, as an emcee at kinky art shows, a panelist and moderator at writing conferences, and commentator in the media. Her work explores the narrative shapes of pervert experiences and the pornographic potential of pop culture. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence in Creative Nonfiction Writing, and is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, an AVN nominee, and the recipient of two Feminist Porn Awards. .
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