Fall 2023 People

Artist/Researchers through 2023

• Antônio Henrique Torres Vianna, writer in residence, NYC Trope Tank, Spring 2023. Antonio is a poet in São Paulo.
• Albert Figurt, visiting scholar, Spring 2022–Summer 2022. Albert is an artist and independent scholar in Italy. He returned to MIT and the MIT Trope Tank as a CAST visiting artist, CMS/W instructor, and residential scholar in fall 2023 and IAP 2024.
• Jesper Juul, visiting scholar, Spring 2022. Jesper is an associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy’s Institute of Visual Design in Copenhagen and author of Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer, which he worked on while at the MIT Trope Tank.
• Nanna Debois Buhl, visiting PhD student, Spring 2022. Nanna has since earned her PhD at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Copenhagen University.
• Ardalan SadeghiKivi, graduate researcher, Spring 2021, Fall 2021. Ardalan earned an MArch at MIT, taught and curated exhibits with ACT and MIT.nano, and will be joining CMS/W as a lecturer in Fall 2024.
• Kitty Zeng, undergraduate researcher, Spring 2022. Kitty earned an SB in computer science and brain & cognitive science major at MIT.
• Joanne Yuan, undergraduate researcher, Spring 2021. Joanne graduated from MIT with a SB in computer science.
• Alan Zhu, undergraduate researcher, Spring 2021. Alan earned an SB in writing and computer science at MIT and then graduated with an MEng in computer science, earning, that month, the Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Award.
• Valerie Chen, undergraduate researcher, Summer 2020. Valerie graduated from MIT with an SB in political science.
• Judy Heflin, research assistant, Fall 2018–Spring 2020. Judy graduated from MIT with an SM in comparative media studies.
• Sebastian Bartlett Fernandez, undergraduate researcher, Spring 2018–Spring 2019. Sebastian is a fourth-year computer science major at MIT.
• Scott Rettberg, visiting professor, Fall 2017. Scott is a professor at the University of Bergen and author of Electronic Literature. Since his visit he and Jill Walker Rettberg established the leading European center of its sort, the Center for Digital Narrative, a Norwegian Center of Excellence.
• Pierre Tchetgen, visiting predoctoral researcher, Fall 2017—Spring 2018. Pierre completed his PhD at the University of California and is a postdoc at Northeastern University.
• J-S Senécal (pka Sofian Audry), postdoctoral researcher, Spring 2017. Sofian is a professor at UQAM and author of Art in the Age of Machine Learning.
• Chris Kerich, research assistant, Fall 2015—Spring 2017. Chris went on to PhD studies in the Film & Digital Media Studies program at UCSC.
• Milton Läufer, writer in residence, Fall 2016—Spring 2017. Milton earned his PhD at NYU and is now living in Berlin. He is author of A Noise Such as a Man Might Make.
• Michał Żmuda, visiting PhD student, Spring 2016. Michał completed his PhD at the University of Rzeszów and is co-author of Reading Narrative: On Narrative Figures in Polish Literature (not only) of the 20th and 21st Centuries (in Polish).
• Veli-Matti Karhulahti, postdoctoral researcher, Spring 2016. Matti completed his PhD at the University of Jyväskylä, is senior researcher there, and teaches at the University of Turku.
• Andrew Plotkin, writer in residence, Spring 2015—Fall 2016. Zarf continues his amazing work as a hacker, IF author, and IF system developer.
• Piotr Marecki, visiting scholar, November 2013–July 2014. Piotr is professor at Jagiellonian University’s Institute of Culture, heads the publisher Ha!art, and is founder of Ubu Lab.
• Erik Stayton, research assistant, Fall 2013–Spring 2015. Erik completed his PhD in the HASTS program at MIT and now works as an anthropologist.
• Clara Fernández-Vara, visiting scholar, October 2012–August 2013. Clara is an associate arts professor at NYU and author of Introduction to Game Analysis, 2nd edition.
• Rafael Pérez y Pérez, visiting scholar, Fall 2012. Rafael is a professor at UAM Cualimalpa, author of Mexica: 20 years–20 stories [20 años–20 historias], and co-author of both
• Liz Hernandez, undergraduate researcher, Summer 2012, graduated MIT with an SB.
• Natalia Fedorova, visiting scholar & Fulbright Fellow, 2011–2012. Natalia is a lecturer at the Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg and co-curates the 101 Media Art Festival.
• Robert Long, undergraduate researcher, Summer 2011, graduated MIT with an SB.
• Zuzana Husárová, visiting scholar & Fulbright Fellow, Spring 2011. Zuzana teaches in three countries, at Comenius University, Masaryk University, and Sprachkunst at Universitaet fuer Angewandte Kunst.

Taper editoral collective members, 2018–

• Sebastian Bartlett (co-editor of #1, #2, #3 & #4)
• Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (co-editor of #1, #2, & #3)
• Kyle Booten (co-editor of #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, & #12)
• Angela Chang (co-editor of #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, & #12)
• Kavi Duvvoori (co-editor of #12)
• Leonardo Flores (co-editor of #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, & #12)
• Katy Ilonka Gero (co-editor of #8, #9, #10, & #11)
• Judy Heflin (co-editor of #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, & #8)
• Milton Läufer (co-editor of #5, #6, & #7)
• Nick Montfort (co-editor of #1; publisher)
• Rachel Paige Thompson (co-editor of #2)
• Eugenio Tisselli (co-editor of #8, #9, & #10 )
• Andy Wallace (co-editor of #12)

Renderings Phase I collaborators, 2014

• Patsy Baudoin
• Andrew Campana
• Qianxun (Sally) Chen
• Aleksanda Małecka
• Piotr Marecki
• Nick Montfort
• Erik Stayton

Slant collaborators, 2013–2014

• Rafael Pérez y Pérez
• D. Fox Harrell
• Nick Montfort
• Iván Guerrero
• Erik Stayton
• Andrew Campana

The Deletionist collaborators, 2011–2013

• Amaranth Borsuk
• Jesper Juul
• Nick Montfort

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 collaborators, 2010–2013

• Nick Montfort
• Patsy Baudoin
• John Bell
• Ian Bogost
• Jeremy Douglass
• Mark C. Marino
• Michael Mateas
• Casey Reas
• Mark Sample
• Noah Vawter

Racing the Beam and Platform Studies series collaborators, 2007–

• Ian Bogost
• Nick Montfort

Tools for the Telling collaborators, 2007–2008

• Clara Fernández-Vara
• Alex Mitchell
• Nick Montfort

About Us

The Trope Tank is a lab/studio. We develop new poetic practices and new understandings of digital media by focusing on the material, formal, and historical aspects of computation and language.