ivan zhao
Ivan Zhao (he/him) is a poet, game & type designer, and web artist interested in nonlinear narratives, forms, and mechanics that reckon with digital, diasporic, and queer identity. His work interrogates individual and viewer agency. Websites as alternative worlds and lives. Typefaces as diasporic families. Game making as self discovery. Attention as love.
In the past, he has directed two editions of Kernel Magazine, a literary magazine and community reimagining techno-optimism for a better collective future.
Sessions
in what ways is a poem a computer? how do the mechanics, the inner working of software, reflect the syntactic and beautiful nature of poetry? this talk dives into the rich history of programmers, poets, writers, and designers and how they've created new worlds with ideas, theories and examples.