Tim Szetela

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Tim Szetela is an animator and designer who explores structures of data, language, and geography via iteration and archive. His practice and teaching combine a dynamic toolset of artmaking techniques, media formats, software, technology, and code. He has created one animation every day since 2020 for his Pattern Loops project and is drawn, in particular, to the intersecting geometries of analog and digital worlds.

Szetela began teaching at Princeton in Fall 2017. He has taught courses in animation filmmaking and data visualization in both the Program in Visual Arts and the First-Year Seminars Program. In Fall 2022, he organized Games &&, a symposium featuring artists, designers, and researchers who explore and experiment with the tools of game design and development. He also co-organizes the biennial Art of Science exhibition, which features work from the Princeton community that sits at the intersection of science and art.

He has shown work at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and Museum of the Moving Image (New York). His films have screened widely at animation festivals, including Anima Mundi, Annecy, Ottawa International Animation Festival, and Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films. Rewordable, the game he co-designed using computational linguistics, was published by Penguin Random House.

Szetela also has taught at Harvard University, School of Visual Arts, NYU (in New York and Shanghai), and Tec de Monterrey (in Querétaro, Mexico). He holds an MPS from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and a BA in Visual & Environmental Studies from Harvard University. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

GAMES && Symposium at Princeton University — November 12, 2022

Research Innovation Funds Awarded to “Climate Stories Incubator” | Princeton’s Office of the Dean for Research, April 2023