Hi, I'm Alex.
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
Dadakuku Poem Collection June 2025
Ways of Knowing (Digital Poem) June 2025
A Prism (Digital Poem) June 2025
Miscellanea
Relatively, Clock March 2026
The Funeral for the Internet July 2025
Phraselette July 2025
Phraselette: A Poet's Procedural Palette July 2025
Dadakuku Poem Collection June 2025
Ways of Knowing (Digital Poem) June 2025
A Prism (Digital Poem) June 2025
The Writer's Project June 2025
Designing for Posthuman Critical Literacy November 2023
A Poetry Writing Game November 2023
Nonsynth November 2023
Beetle Chat June 2023
There and Back Again June 2023
Spinning Interactive Fiction June 2022
Spinning Interactive Fiction June 2022
A Review of Writing Support Tools March 2022
Project Sylvia June 2020
How Novelists Use Generative Language Models March 2020
Report on Fully Automated Disinformation January 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
Phraselette: A Poet's Procedural Palette July 2025
Design of Interactive Systems writing tools code paper language
Designing for Posthuman Critical Literacy November 2023
In2Writing '24 (CHI Workshop) writing tools paper
There and Back Again June 2023
Best Paper Award: AAAI '23 code games paper
Spinning Interactive Fiction June 2022
Spindle at ICCC '22 games paper
A Review of Writing Support Tools March 2022
A Review of Writing Support Tools Using a Cognitive Process Model of Writing paper writing tools
How Novelists Use Generative Language Models March 2020
How Novelists Use Generative Language Models in HAI-GEN paper
Journalism
Report on Fully Automated Disinformation January 2020