Ian Hatcher is a writer, sound poet, voice actor, coder, and performance artist. [ ++ ] His work explores power, narrative, and cognition in the context of digital systems.

His output includes performances and readings across North America and Europe; a print/sound poetry collection, Prosthesis; several vinyl records and chapbooks; and Abra, a conjoined artists' book and mobile app co-created with Amaranth Borsuk and Kate Durbin. Other projects include Remote Viewer, a covert theatrical workshop co-directed with Tyler Coburn, and creative research as a member of the Chicago performance collective Lucky Pierre.

He has taught courses at Brown University, New York University, the NJ Institute of Technology, Rutgers-Camden, where he was a 2018 Digital Studies Fellow, and the University of Bergen, where he spent the 2021-22 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar to Norway. Prior to teaching, he worked as a freelance software developer in NYC.

He holds degrees in art and writing from SAIC and Brown University, and is currently an IAWP PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder. [ –– ]

Sept 7 - 11 In the Future, Something Will Have Happened
with Lucky Pierre
7a*11d Performance Festival, The Theatre Center, Toronto, Canada
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Oct 1 Private Screening
with French translations by Olivier Mathieu
Festival Actoral, Montévidéo, Marseille, France
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Oct 8 ORACLE
with Paulus van Horne
ATLAS Black Box, CU Boulder, Boulder CO
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Nov 2 Private Screening
with French translations by Olivier Mathieu
Festival Actoral, Usine C, Montreal, Canada
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