Arden Schager, Index

I am an artist, programmer, and educator from California, currently residing in New York City. I did my undergraduate at Stanford University in Computer Science and am currently attending Parsons School of Design for an MFA in Design and Technology. My interests include complex system design, computational poetry, speculative and critical design, sci fi, and artificial intelligence.


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Misc. Projects and Sketches
Abyssal Connections, a networked simulation about first contact and speculative linguistics. Click to send food!
www.compost.page, a simulation using growth to create cutup poetry; made in Sam Lavigne's Scrapism class.
Useful Checks, an exploration of nonconventional use of checkboxes.
Ghost in the Machine, a sketch using the Faces in the Wild dataset to explore the weird and eerie in ML models
Interlockings, a sketch exploring the concept of aligning trajectories and moire patterns
Useful Fields, a persistant and shared community garden using input boxes.
Nonlinear Memory Quilt, an exploration of form and memory
Activities for Children, a collaboration with Professor Shabnam Piryaei examining poetry, unfolding, and childhood
Sowing, another poetry piece exploring the concept of collaborative unfolding
Parsons Critical Computation Sketches

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