WordHack is a monthly evening of performances and talks exploring the intersection of language and technology. Code poetry, digital literature, e-lit, language games, coders interested in the creative side, writers interested in new forms writing can take, all are welcome here.

This month we will feature talks and performances by:
TEGA BRAIN (http://tegabrain.com/)
CYNTHIA X. HUA (http://cynthiaxhua.com/)
ROBERT YANG (https://debacle.us/)

We also have an OPEN PROJECTOR (like an open mic for digital work) where anyone can come up and show their work (for 5 minutes). Signup starts at 6:45, and will fill up so get here early! Performers start at 7:15.

Host & Curator: TODD ANDERSON (http://toddwords.com/)

SUGGESTED DONATION $5-10

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WordHack 2019 Call for Presenters:
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Tega Brain is an Australian born artist and environmental engineer, making eccentric engineering. Her work explores the politics of data and how environments are abstracted, represented and managed. It takes the form of online interventions, site specific public works, experimental infrastructures and poetic information systems.

Cynthia X. Hua is a writer and artist. She is interested in how questions of identity and equity should inform the creation of future information technologies.

Robert Yang makes surprisingly popular games about gay culture and intimacy -- he is most known for his historical bathroom sex simulator The Tearoom and his male shower simulator Rinse and Repeat, and his gay sex triptych Radiator 2 has over 150,000 users on Steam. He is currently an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Game Center, and he has given talks at GDC, IndieCade, Queerness and Games Conference, and Games for Change. He holds a BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley, and an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School for Design.