Hi, I'm Alex. A picture of me looking out over the beach. Welcome! I am a researcher, text artist, programmer, and PhD student at UC Santa Cruz.

I play with language

(partly) to find new and reparative relationships with it.

I am interested in sculptural text, pataphysics, orality, games aimed at joy rather than fun,

digital poetics, words-in-the-world, the intersection of critical design and practice based research,

critical literacy, digital literature, the avant garde, critical readings of constraint, contemporary reading+writing, AI literacy, more than human design, justice, bread, surrealism, pickling, publishing...

alexcalderw at gmail @xenoscope.bsky.social google scholar instagram

Ongoing Projects

Writing, Digital Poetry

Miscellanea

Relatively, Clock March 2026

Phraselette July 2025

A Poetry Writing Game November 2023

Nonsynth November 2023

Beetle Chat June 2023

Project Sylvia June 2020

Coronovirus Bot January 2020

Semantic Compasses January 2020

Phonaesthesia December 2018

All is All Poetry January 2018

Publications

Phraselette July 2025

Design of Interactive Systems Short Paper writing tools code paper system

Journalism