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As the long winter stretches over us, six beloved classes return as sanctuaries for reflection, creation, and subversion amid the violences of our time—silenced speech, disappeared people, and the relentless acceleration of technology. As always, School for Poetic Computation explores how code, play, and interaction shape the ways we sense, imagine, and relate in a technological landscape contoured by rapidly shifting tools and interfaces. This season at SFPC, live coding transforms algorithms into ephemeral performances; games and websites become poetic systems, diagrams, and maps through which we can think, feel, and move. Here, technical and conceptual tools entwine with poetic and theoretical inquiry, offering moments to experiment, inhabit, and rethink the worlds around and within us.
Winter 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, Michigan Quarterly Review, 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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Lee Beckwith
Lee 소라 Beckwith is sometimes an educator but always a learner. They currently teach high schoolers computer science, math, and creative writing on Lenape land (Bronx, NY). Their recent research centers on rethinking classroom power dynamics through curriculum negotiation. These days, they are thinking a lot about fractals and film scores.
April Soetarman
April Soetarman (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer who creates public art, immersive installations, games, and weird side projects. Her site-responsive works play with the language of everyday objects and speculative institutions to explore complex human emotions. Her installations have been supported by the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and CultureHub, among others, as well as anonymously installed in dozens of public spaces across the country. April was also known for WeirdSideProjects.com, her previously-anonymous series of ongoing experiments in code, text, and street art. Her most notable projects include The Museum of Almost Realities (2017), The Department of Emotional Labor (2019), and The End of the Day (2020). April has a BA in architecture and music from UC Berkeley and was an Experiential Design Founding Fellow at Experience Institute.
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.
Kayla Drzewicki
Kayla is an artist and educator based in Queens, New York. She makes websites, screensavers, and stages performances within the desktop environment. Previously, she was a programmer and designer for QuaranTV, a 24/7 public access livestream, and has taught computer classes at the Enoch Pratt Free Library and with Code in the Schools in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a BFA in sculpture from MICA. Currently, she is program assistant at Rhizome. You can find her online at kayla.world.
Sherri Wasserman
Sherri Wasserman is a multidisciplinary collaborator who constructs experiences at the intersections of physical, technological, and informational landscapes. She makes things for print, digital, and architectural/environmental spaces, creating content-rich exhibitions, installations, publications, websites, knowledge management and communications systems, and mobile apps for wide-ranging audiences. In addition to her experience on projects ranging from individual artist partnerships to initiatives for major institutions, she has a background in visual art and history (Oberlin College), design and programming for emerging technologies (ITP at NYU), and science and technology studies (ASU’s Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology PhD program). Her work increasingly focuses on expanding collective survivability through engagement with complex systems, sustainability principles, ethical documentary and design practices, and futures methods.
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.
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.
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker is a poetic practitioner, writer, editor and teaching artist from the Great Lakes currently living on the Gulf Coast. Their work reflects on the complexities of inheriting not only only the unfinished business of past generations but also the silent, often overlooked burdens, such as languages and histories lost to colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. A poet of Black American and Mexican descent, Rucker uses explorative, ritual poetics and asemic writing—a form of wordless script that suggests meaning without linguistic structure—to transcend the constraints of English, a language that is both violent (forced upon her) and limiting (not their mother tongue) in its ability to fully express their poetic intent. Their work considers the dormant and unsayable, reanimating the intangible elements that shape one’s capacity for and understanding of legibility, myth, inheritance and ritual. Rucker is a 2020 Poetry Project Fellow, a 2016 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, and the founder of the The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics, a non-traditional learning space for the poetically inclined. Her debut poetry collection, Dereliction (2022) is currently available via The Song Cave.
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.
Roxanne Harris
Roxanne Harris “alsoknownasrox” is a new media artist-researcher and musician-programmer based in Los Angeles. Embracing programming as an artistic medium, she parameterizes on-the-fly, pushing the boundaries of improvisational dexterity within computational limitations. Her work invites audiences to engage the creative process as it unfolds, embracing vulnerability and exploring speculative futures through algorithmic transparency.
Eric Lee
Eric Lee (a.k.a. “easterner”) is a multidisciplinary artist from London/Hong Kong, now based in New York. His art and creative technology practice ranges from music production, generative code art, video art, and 3D/XR/interactive visuals to livecoding, audiovisual performance, kinetic sculptures, and multimedia installations. He is an active performer and organizer in the livecode.nyc collective, and a co-organizer of the Creative Code Art global online community. He has performed/shown his work at Public Records, Harvestworks, and Zerospace in NYC, Gray Area in SF, Iklectik in London, and NEO Shibuya in Tokyo.
Tyler Yin
Tyler Yin is an artist, designer, and technologist based in Brooklyn, NY. His practice weaves text, image, and code together into browser poems and publications. He writes instructions for both human and computer interpretation, as the blurry distinctions between user and software continue to unravel.
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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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