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Join us online & in-person for classes, workshops, public talks, prom, graduation and our Future Schools Residency at the National Academy of Design!
Summer 2026
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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.
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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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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Margot Armbruster
Margot Armbruster is a writer, editor, educator, and SFPC alum based in Brooklyn. Margot has worked as a researcher, writer, community organizer, and musician at The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, the National Humanities Center, Yale University Press, SFPC, and elsewhere, most recently at a Manhattan-based educational media company. Margot's writing appears in The Guardian, USA Today, Belt Magazine, and The Adroit Journal, among other outlets, and focuses on music, math, linguistics, philosophy, disability, and prayer. Margot earned a B.A. in English and Political Theory at Duke University, where they picked figs and took long walks in the campus gardens.
Everest Pipkin
Everest Pipkin is a game developer, writer, and artist from central Texas who lives and works on a sheep farm in southern New Mexico. Their work both in the studio and in the garden follows themes of ecology, tool making, and collective care during collapse. When not at the computer in the heat of the day, you can find them in the hills spending time with their neighbors— both human and non-human.
Spencer Chang
Spencer Chang is an artist, engineer, and toy maker interested in the play, creation, and care that emerges from our relationships with and through technology. Working across internet spaces, interactive sculpture, and creative tools, they engage with everyday practices to explore our online identities and design public good technology. These works leverage whimsical intimacy to interrogate our systems, invite new imaginations, and provide the means to reinvent them.
Chang's work has been showcased by the New Museum (New York), Gray Area & the de Young Museum (San Francisco), Hyundai Artlab (Seoul), Tokyo Geidai (Tokyo), Museum of the Moving Image (New York), and Alserkal Avenue (Dubai). Their projects have been featured in MIT Technology Review, It's Nice That, and Frieze, and supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission and APOSSIBLE. A NEW INC Y11 member, they have taught and led workshops internationally for institutions such as the School for Poetic Computation and Stanford University.
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.
Tee Topor
Tee Topor is a human collaborating with machines and people. Although a jester of many trades, they primarily like to design computer generated graphics and simulations for the web. They use 3D modeling applications, game engines and digital and analog fabrication techniques to weave together research and writing on labor, ecology and the digital-self. Currently they are interested in technologies that complicate our understood realities by being inefficient, messy, and honest. They are a studio member at LARPA, a worker rented studio space that hosts various experimental community events, from dataset karaoke, to algorithmically manipulated screenings of well known films. They are based in NYC, for now.
Munus Shih
Munus Shih is a Taiwanese Minnan-Hakka creative technologist and educator building tools and spaces for anti-colonial, queer, and collective uses of technology. They co-founded Co-Assembly/SpOnAcT!, a Taiwan-based design cooperative exploring data storytelling through ethnographic research and organizing. In 2023, Munus co-organized Processing Community Day Taiwan, a global event centering queer, femme, and grassroots creative tech voices from the Global South.
An Assistant Professor in the Graduate Communications Design program at Pratt Institute, Munus teaches and leads courses on the critical history of technology, critical making, cooperative networking, and open-source publishing. Their pedagogy draws from critical pedagogy, critical software studies, solidarity economy, and intersectional feminism.
A Processing Foundation Fellow, Munus’s work, including p5.zine, Syllabus (Subject to Change), and Duty Free, has been exhibited and supported by NEW INC x New Museum DEMO Festival, the Taiwanese Hakka Affairs Council, and the Open Source Art Contributors Conference. They have presented talks and workshops at institutions such as NYU ITP, Cooper Union, SVA, Type@Cooper, Typographics, The Dalton School, Type Electives, and Google Developer Group DevFest.
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.
manuel arturo abreu
manuel arturo abreu (*1991 Santo Domingo) is a non-disciplinary artist working with what is at hand in a process of magical thinking with attention to ritual aspects of aesthetics. They recently exhibited at the Tufts University Art Galleries (Boston), the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Konrad Fischer Galerie (Düsseldorf), the Portland Art Museum, SIMIAN (Copenhagen), Kunstverein München (Munich), Bergen Kunsthall, & Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin). Since 2005, abreu has co-directed home school, a free pop-up art school and space of sacred duty in the Pacific Northwest which has been in curatorial residency at Oregon Contemporary (2023) and Yale Union (2019).
Zoe Butler
Zoe Butler is a New Media Performance Artist who uses abstract moving images to engage Caribbean folklore stories. Her work often takes an interest in the transformation of objects over time; whether reflected in the decay of family VHS tapes or the erosion of slave ship wreckage. Butler’s practice responds to the materiality of artifacts to embrace the abundance of counter-histories and to encourage people to see themselves beyond the representational.
Kandis Williams
Kandis Williams is a visual artist whose practice spans collage, performance, writing, publishing, and curating, and explores and deconstructs critical theory around race, nationalism, authority, and eroticism. Her work focuses on the body as a site of experience, which is simultaneously co-opted as symbol. Williams is the founder and editor-at-large of Cassandra Press, an artist-run publishing and educational platform producing lo-fi printed matter, classrooms, projects, artist books, and exhibitions. The platform’s intention is to spread ideas, distribute new language, propagate dialogue centering ethics, aesthetics, femme driven activism, and black scholarship.
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Isabella Haid
Isa Haid is a researcher, writer, and artist. She is fascinated by the intertwined histories of labor, technology, and infrastructure. Seeking new network topologies to reclaim our technological imagination, Isa likes to experiment with the in-between of physical and digital media. She is a co-founder of MissVideo4u, a USB-based video distribution network. Isa works at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY and is affiliated with the Border Tech Lab at UT Austin.
Ariel Yelen
Ariel Yelen is the author of the book of poems I Was Working (Princeton University Press), selected by the New York Public Library as a Top Ten Book of 2024. Her poems can be found in the Baffler, Social Text, BOMB, and elsewhere. She received a 2023-2024 Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Greece. She's taught poetry and interdisciplinary courses for Poetry Society of America, Columbia School of the Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers New Brunswick, and elsewhere. As a former editor for the NYC-based publishing collaborative Futurepoem Books, she founded their digital space futurefeed. She lives and works in New York City.
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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. .
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