Joel Swanson
IAWP Faculty Affiliate
Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance

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Joel Swanson is an artist and writer whose work chiefly explores the failings and glitches of linguistic systems. His work critically subverts the technologies, materials, and underlying structures of language to reveal its idiosyncrasies and inconsistencies. His work ranges from interactive installations to public sculptures that playfully and powerfully question words and their meanings.

Swanson is an associateÌýprofessor in the and the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society at the where he works and teaches at the intersection of language and technology. He holds a courtesy appointment in the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance PhD Program. He received his Masters of Fine Art at the with a focus in Computing and the Arts.