Danny Snelson

Daniel Scott Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist working as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA, where he serves as faculty for the Digital Humanities, the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, and the UCLA Game Lab. His online editorial work can be found on PennSound, Eclipse, UbuWeb, Jacket2, and the EPC. Published books works include Elden Poem (Hysterically Real, 2022), Full Bleed: A Mourning Letter for the Printed Page (Sync, 2019), Apocalypse Reliquary: 1984-2000 (Monoskop, 2018), Radios (Make Now, 2016), EXE TXT (Gauss PDF, 2015), Epic Lyric Poem (Troll Thread, 2014), and Inventory Arousal with James Hoff (Bedford Press/Architectural Association, 2011). With Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Avi Alpert, he performs as one-third of the academic performance group Research Service. His forthcoming book, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), examines the networked afterlives of media-reflexive works of art and letters.

Interests include: unwieldy lists, MFH, expanded poetics, lively conversation, media poetry, tabletop RPGs, manga/anime//manhua/donghua, file formats, unlikely cocktails, the Deseret Alphabet, print-on-demand books, emerging genres, VR exercise, speculative narratives, decolonial politics, shadow libraries, experimental gastronomy, handcrafted HTML, queer comics, algorithmic music, Post-Mormon poets, actual play podcasts, Kyoto-style cold-brew, internet vernaculars, IRL objects, archival aesthetics, videogame studies, Asta Theodore, and playful engagements of all stripes. In curriculum, composition, &critical work, he attends to experimental modes of play: collaboration, compression, and circulation.

My inbox can be found at danny dot snelson at google mail.

Alt Bio (w/tnx to Sidekick Books for the prompt):

Danny Snelson is a highly-compressed data shadow distributed across hand-coded protocols for cultural memory. Optimal sightings can be glimpsed via Unicode Standard, dwelling within the failed Deseret script block: U+10400..10425, 10428..1044D-F. His algorithmic lament can be heard to echo along the contours of the stochastic spectrographies of hard drives undergoing fragmentation.