Taeyoon Choi, Zach Lieberman, Jen Lowe and Amit Pitaru Co-Found the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC)

After teaching for a decade at Parsons School of Design, where he also studied under Golan Levin, Zach Lieberman helped create the School for Poetic Computation in New York with Taeyoon Choi, Jen Lowe and Amit Pitaru. Co-founder Choi describes SFPC as “an independent, artist-run organization” with a flat structure and bottom-up approach. Leaning into the “poetic” part of the name, the school claims to promote “completely strange, whimsical, and beautiful work—not the sorts of things useful for building a portfolio for finding a job, but the sort of things that will surprise and delight people and help you to keep creating without a job.”

The school carries on the traditions of the Bauhaus, MIT’s Media Lab and many other educational institutions to promote the creative side of technology.