Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Note: Due to a technical issue, a bit of the first presentation was lost
Join us as our 2021 cohort of residents talk us through their project and the process for making them!
==More Info On the Artists==
Kengchakaj ( kengchakaj.info ) is a Bangkok-born, Ridgewood-based pianist, improviser, electronic musician, and composer. His musical idiom is rooted in the aesthetics and ideologies of Thai culture and African-American Creative Music.
Nitcha Fame (http://nitcha.info)
Nitcha is a Bangkok-born, New York-based interdisciplinary artist and designer. Her work investigates using narrative and humanizing storytelling, sensory experience, and emotional expression through art and technology.
Suhyun Choi (https://suhyunchoi.net) is a Korean non-binary third-culture kid. Growing up in different contexts has given them 1st-hand experience in understanding complexities of capitalism, colonialism, intersectionality, & how the macro affects the micro in human relationships.
Sara Drake (http://sara-drake.info) is an artist, writer and animator based in LA. Her work considers the ways in which the stories we tell ourselves about the future shape how we live together in the present, & the links between predictive simulation and state power.
Zoe Scruggs aka Farmer Zoe (http://zoescruggs.com) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and farmer born in the Bronx. Has aspirations of teaching art and agriculture to the Black community. Currently farming in the NE, and working on a painting residency in PA!
zzyw (http://zzyw.org) is an art and research collective formed by Yang Wang and Zhenzhen Qi in New York, 2017. It produces software applications, simulation, and text as instruments to examine the cultural, political and educational imprints of computation. Its current members are Zhenzhen Qi, Yang Wang, & Qianlin Li.
Note: Due to a technical issue, a bit of the first presentation was lost
Join us as our 2021 cohort of residents talk us through their project and the process for making them!
==More Info On the Artists==
Kengchakaj ( kengchakaj.info ) is a Bangkok-born, Ridgewood-based pianist, improviser, electronic musician, and composer. His musical idiom is rooted in the aesthetics and ideologies of Thai culture and African-American Creative Music.
Nitcha Fame (http://nitcha.info)
Nitcha is a Bangkok-born, New York-based interdisciplinary artist and designer. Her work investigates using narrative and humanizing storytelling, sensory experience, and emotional expression through art and technology.
Suhyun Choi (https://suhyunchoi.net) is a Korean non-binary third-culture kid. Growing up in different contexts has given them 1st-hand experience in understanding complexities of capitalism, colonialism, intersectionality, & how the macro affects the micro in human relationships.
Sara Drake (http://sara-drake.info) is an artist, writer and animator based in LA. Her work considers the ways in which the stories we tell ourselves about the future shape how we live together in the present, & the links between predictive simulation and state power.
Zoe Scruggs aka Farmer Zoe (http://zoescruggs.com) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and farmer born in the Bronx. Has aspirations of teaching art and agriculture to the Black community. Currently farming in the NE, and working on a painting residency in PA!
zzyw (http://zzyw.org) is an art and research collective formed by Yang Wang and Zhenzhen Qi in New York, 2017. It produces software applications, simulation, and text as instruments to examine the cultural, political and educational imprints of computation. Its current members are Zhenzhen Qi, Yang Wang, & Qianlin Li.





![WordHack Online feat. Golan Levin & Tega Brain, Kelli Anderson and Artemio Morales
WordHack is a monthly evening of performances and talks exploring the intersection of language and technology. Code poetry, digital literature, e-lit, language games, coders interested in the creative side, writers interested in new forms writing can take, all are welcome here.
Yet again we will be gathering ONLINE on the Babycastles Twitch stream (https://twitch.tv/babycastles) for talks and performances from:
GOLAN LEVIN & TEGA BRAIN, authors of Code as Creative Medium (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/code-creative-medium)
KELLI ANDERSON (https://kellianderson.com)
ARTEMIO MORALES (https://www.altsalt.com/about)
We also have our OPEN PROJECTOR (like an open mic for digital work) where anyone can sign up to share a piece on stream. A link to the form to sign up for open projector will be sent to you after you confirm your attendance here on withfriends
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SUGGESTED DONATION $5-10
Help make sure WordHack has a home to go back to when quarantine is over! Now is also a great time to become a Babycastles member to support us and learn about our great livestreams: https://withfriends.co/babycastles/join
Host & Curator: TODD ANDERSON (http://toddwords.com)
Join the WordHack Email List:
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Get a digital copy of the WordHack Anthology:
https://toddwords.itch.io/wordhack-anthology
Accessibility: WordHack is streamed on Twitch.tv with automated closed captioning available via the CC button at the bottom of the player. WordHack aims to be accessible to all, please email Todd at toddwords[at]gmail.com with any access questions or requests. Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/babycastles WordHack Online feat. Golan Levin & Tega Brain, Kelli Anderson and Artemio Morales](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q2LfXtu2wY8/mqdefault.jpg)

![Killing Spree and attachedhands at Showpaper Gallery
blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/01/since_october_n.php on.fb.me/jeHpDS
[[Exhibit]]
◥ Part of Terraforms - Game Mods at Babycastles ◥
Curated by Sarah Brin and Zach Gage
( v. ) 1. to modify a worlds environment so that it can support Earth life-forms, especially humans. An exhibition dedicated to game artists and their radical reconfigurations of traditional gamescapes. As we move further into the digital realm, the rules that govern it are becoming increasingly transparent. What was once clearly articulated has become an amorphous set of unchallenged rules and sociological boundaries. Despite their subtlety, these digital restrictions, much like the natural laws of the physical world, affect every aspect of the increasingly virtual lifestyles we lead. Yet, the virtural world is made of code, and its rules can be broken. These seven artists move outside of digital boundaries, forcibly modifying gamescapes while pressing us to rethink our beliefs.
◥WORKS◥
◥ Velvet Strike - Anne-Marie Schleiner
◢ opensorcery.net/velvet-strike
◥ Removeallweapons This, First Person - John Hendershot
◢ vimeo.com/11535437
◥ Tomb Raider I and II Patches - Robert Nideffer
◢ switch.sjsu.edu/CrackingtheMaze/robert.html
◥ Mario Battle No. 1, Mario is Drowning - Myfanwy Ashmore
◢ runme.org/project/+mariobattle/
◥ Rpgpaint - Guthrie Lonergan
◢ theageofmammals.com/rpgpaint/
◥ JFK: Reloaded - Traffic Management Ltd.
◢ fileplanet.com/192027/190000/fileinfo/JFK-Reloaded-v1.1-(Free-Game) ◥ Killing Spree - Zach Gage and Ramsey Nasser
Originally uploaded January 2011. Killing Spree and attachedhands at Showpaper Gallery](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RICusxm3MKo/mqdefault.jpg)


