Writer’s Forum: Ian Hatcher

Ian Hatcher is a writer, vocalist, performer, and programmer whose work explores cognition in the context of digital systems. He has performed at Artists Space, e-flux, The Kitchen, Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, and at the American embassy in Helsinki. His output includes a poetry collection, Prosthesis (Poor Claudia 2016), and two recordings on vinyl, Drone Pilot (cOsmOsmOse 2017) and Lifestyle Guru(E.S.P. TV 2018). Abra, a conjoined app/book co-created with Amaranth Borsuk and Kate Durbin, won the Turn On Literature prize in 2017 and was featured in public library exhibitions in Denmark, Norway, and Romania. He lives in New York and teaches in the Literary Arts program at Brown University.