is an artist, (primarily web) designer, engineer, and writer. He is currently a fellow at MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology program, writing a thesis defining “interface poetics” and the failings of computational structuralism. This summer, he is working at IBM Research investigating how agentic AI systems obscure information from their users. Previously, he taught at the School of Visual Arts Interaction Design MFA as the Creative Technologist in Residence. Twice, he assistant-taught “Imperfect Images” with Molly Soda at the School for Poetic Computation.
His fiction, essays, and visual art have been featured in Are.na Editorial, Document Journal, Cursor, i-D, Syntax, Dwell, Hypeart (covering transmediale last year), Soft Systems Gallery, Wide Open, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and more.
He holds a BA in Computer Science and English from Brown University.
https://www.willallstetter.com/