Ian Hatcher (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, performer, programmer, and educator.

Most of his projects investigate the poetics and power dynamics of synthetic aggregate language: the language of code, corpora, and corporations. Informed by a decade of working in the tech industry, a long dedication to embodied practice and musicality, and PhD research into corporate subjectivity and AI, the cadences of his work speak to how digital systems shape our perceptions and delimit our personal and political horizons.

His parafictional lectures, sound poetry readings, and other works have been presented nationally and internationally, including at The Kitchen, Pioneer Works, The Poetry Project, Artists Space, Wendy's Subway, e-flux, The Chicago Cultural Center, Steppenwolf Theatre, Denver Digerati, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Errant Sound in Berlin, Actoral festivals in Montreal and Marseille, ELO conferences in Porto and Paris, ISEA in Hong Kong, Runokuu in Helsinki, in public libraries in Denmark and Norway, live on Russian TV, and in a host of bookstores, bars, and basements.

Publications include a poetry collection, Prosthesis; a hybrid book/app, Abra; and assorted chapbooks, records, websites, essays, and kinetic poems. He is a member of the collective Lucky Pierre, collaborates with circus artist Issac Endo as c:able, and plays synthesizer in the SLZY MYLFS.

He has taught courses at Brown University; New York University; the NJ Institute of Technology; Rutgers University, as a Digital Studies Fellow; and the University of Bergen, as a Fulbright Scholar to Norway. He holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and a BFA in Studio Arts from SAIC. As of 2025, he teaches in the low residency MFA program at MassArt and is a PhD candidate in Intermedia Art, Writing, and Performance at CU Boulder.

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