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:
JOANNE MCNEIL (http://www.joannemcneil.com/)
MARTIN O'LEARY (http://mewo2.com/)
ESTHER SEYFFARTH (https://user.phil.hhu.de/~seyffarth/index.html)

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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Joanne McNeil is a writer interested in the ways that technology is shaping art, politics, and society. She was a 2015 fellow at the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, receiving the inaugural Arts Writing Fellowship Award for an emerging digital arts writer. She was an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam in 2014. She’s currently an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She is working on a book about internet users called Lurk for Farrar, Straus.

Martin O’Leary is an artist and computer wrangler based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. His recent work has involved machine learning, minority languages and a bee-powered AR fortune telling experience.

Esther Seyffarth is a passionate user of both language and non-language. For her PhD in computational linguistics at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany, she researches verb alternations. Both her research and her generative work revolve around linguistic regularities and their many, many exceptions.