Fletcher builds objects and systems that investigate the social, historical, and environmental implications of data and computation. His work has been featured in Fast Company, Hacker News, Forbes, Make, Parabolic Arc, and Vice’s Motherboard. He is part-time faculty at RISD and a Studio Grantee at the Vermont Studio Center.
MPS - 2015
BA - 2009
Summer 2005
Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Winter 2018
Computation, Technology, and Culture: Introduction to Computation. This course teaches computational techniques, methods, and key concepts in the contexts of art and design.
Fall 2022
The course supports the exploration of theoretical, social, material, technical, and contextual research and concerns in new media arts practice during the final year of the DM MFA Program. It is a combined studio and seminar forum for Digital + Media second-year students. The course is a mix of individual meetings, group discussions and group critiques.
Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
Ambient Interfaces is a both a practical and theoretical exploration of electronic sensors, processors, and actuators in the context of interactive art and design.
Fall 2022
With Sae Oh in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
This combined studio and seminar forum supports Digital + Media graduate students as they research and develop the theoretical, social, material, technical, and contextual aspects of their emergent arts practices. Co-taught with Mariela Yeregui.
Spring 2022
With Mia Rollins in the Sculpture MFA Program.
Wintersession 2022
With Aaron Wright in the Industrial Design MID Program.
Code as Medium explores the technical and conceptual fundamentals of computer programming in the broader context of a sustained studio practice. In addition to teaching basic software coding skills, the course focuses on the social and historical underpinnings of these technologies. It is an elective in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Computation, Technology, and Culture: Interdisciplinary Critique. In this course, students develop and complete a large-scale independent project.
Spring 2021
With Hannah Suzanna in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Winteresssion 2021
With Travess Smalley in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Fall 2020
Computation, Technology, and Culture: Seminar. In this course, students develop and complete a large-scale project that draws from the students' prior studies in the CTC Concentration. Students write source code, author software, and program hardware for making their own works of art and design.
Fall 2014
Co-taught Spring 2014 semester of Flying Robotic Journalism at ITP. Conducted pilot training sessions, lectured, and modified and maintained drones and associated equipment.
January 2023 - Present
Hardware design and engineering for large-scale interactive physical sculpture. Installing 2024.
July, November 2021
August, September 2022
Installation version of Valla's pointcloud.garden body of work for exhibitions in Shanghai, San Francisco, and Istanbul.
June, July 2022
Working with researchers from RISD and Hyundai Design on future-focused, bioinspired prototypes.
March - May 2022
February 2022
September, October 2019
Interactive installation for The New York Times and Amazon Streaming's popup Museum of Modern Love.
June 2019
Custom LED panel production and testing for FILA's Explore popup in SOHO, NYC.
May 2019
Interactive environmental light and sound installation for Bulleit's tasting rooms in Kentucky, USA.
August 2018 - January 2019
Systems architecture and backend development for Alita Immersive Experience. Javascript with Meteor framework, MongoDB, Raspberry Pi, Apache webserver, Arduino.
May 2018 - August 2018
Circuit design and firmware development for underwater robotics application.
October 2017 - January 2018
Design, development, installation for Samsung's Unbox Pavillion at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in Gangueng, South Korea.
September 2017, March 2018, April - May 2018
Hardware and Software development of working, physically interactive protoypes. Raspberry pi, Cinder, OpenCV.
June 2017 - October 2017
Design and Development of hardware and software systems for performance cycling wearable device.
February 2017 - June 2017
Front-end and back-end web development for user-facing and internal pages. MVC design pattern using CodeIgnitor web framework. HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript.
January, February 2017
Assembling and testing printing circuit board prototypes for the Biolite CampStove 2 and other products and prototypes.
November 2016
Wiring, soldering, construction, and installation for Walking Chimes, a piece by Taeyoon Choi and Christine Sun Kim that was exhibited at The Smithsonian's Ctrl+Alt: A Culture Lab On Imagined Futures.
January 2015 - January 2017
Designing and building sensor systems for collecting, storing, and visualizing data for NASA contract space suits.
January 2015 - November 2016
Two long-term contracts producing wireframes and designs for internal and external products with a focus on communicating AI, Machine Learning, and Data science concepts to the general public.
Summer 2015
Served as facilitator and adviser for museum professionals from MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum, Radio Lab, and more.
Summers 2014, 2015
Led workshops and help sessions for participants.
2010 - 2013
Conducted grant-funded agricultural research projects in association with the USDA, Cornell University, the University of Vermont, and the Northeast Hops Alliance.
Spring 2024
With Elisabeth Schifrin in the Interactive Media Arts Low Res program.
Spring 2024
With Michelle Lee in the Interactive Media Arts Low Res program.
Spring 2023
With Dora Do in the Interactive Media Arts Low Res program.
Spring 2023
With Jun Shu in the Interactive Media Arts Low Res program.
Spring 2023
With Sae Oh in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Spring 2023
With Diana Sanchez in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Spring 2023
With Jinha Kang in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Spring 2023
With Huanzhe Hu in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Spring 2023
With Sasha Magallona in the Design, Innovation, and Technology program.
Spring 2023
With Jinhong Cai in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Spring 2023
With Ting-Lung Chang in the Industrial Design MID Program.
Spring 2023
With Ray Sun in the Industrial Design MID Program.
Spring 2022
With Yuhan Ma in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Spring 2022
With Jazzmynn Hong in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Spring 2022
With Travess Smalley in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Fall 2021
Tisch mentorship program mentor for Cy Kim in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).
Spring 2021
With Majed Bou Ghanem in the Industrial Design MID Program.
Spring 2021
With Kathryn Jarvinen in the Digital + Media MFA Program.
Spring 2021
With Yi Yang, Hana Al-Saadi, and Ndivhuho Rasengani in the Sculpture MFA Program.
April 2024
Artist talk at NYU Integrated Design and Media M.S. program for the course Advanced Design Media: Interaction Design Studio taught by Camila A. Morales and Tim O'Keefe.
October 2023
Artist talk at Geneva University of Art and Design / HEAD – Genève's Masters in Media Design Program as part of the Creative Coding Series.
May 2022
Guest critic for Hyundai Research Lab course Robotics for the Pluriverse taught by Paula Gaetano-Adi
May 2022
Guest critic for Industrial Design senior studio final critique.
May 2022
Guest critic for Industrial Design graduate student Aaron Wright's thesis defense.
March 2022
Guest critic for ITP graduate thesis students.
Dec 2021
Guest critic for Digital + Media first year students.
Dec 2021
Guest critic for Digital + Media thesis students.
May 2021
Guest critic for Digital + Media thesis projects.
May 2021
Guest critic for Digital + Media first year final projects.
February 2021
Guest critic for Hacking the Smart Home in the department of Industrial Design. Taught by Majed Bou Ghanem and Zhuoyan Xie.
Wintersession 2021
Guest artist talk in SCULP-1526 The Body Extended course taught by Yi Yang and Hana Al-Saadi in the department of Sculpture.
March 2020
Guest critic for ITP graduate thesis mid-term presentations.
December 2019
Guest critic for Computation Technology and Culture: Concentration Project.
May 2019
Guest critic for Creative Applications Of Machine Learning in the department of Industrial Design. Taught by Seth Kranzler.
March 2019
Guest critic for ITP graduate thesis mid-term presentations.
May 2016
Worked with undergraduate students in the Interactive Media Arts program (IMA), teaching physical computing and aerial robotics. This visit included an artist talk.
May 2015
Obfuscation tools and techniques for a more just world. Find a full recording of the presentation on vimeo.
