Tim Szetela is an animator and designer who explores structures of data, language, and geography via iteration and archives.
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.
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. 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 word building card game he co-designed, was published by Penguin Random House.
He currently teaches courses in animation, data visualization, and creative research methods at Princeton University, where he also co-organizes the biennial Art of Science exhibition, and at the School of Visual Arts. He previously has taught at Harvard University, New York University (in their Brooklyn and Shanghai campuses), and Tec de Monterrey (in Querétaro, Mexico).
He has consulted on technology and design for artists, filmmakers, and organizations such as the ASPCA, Cartier, City of New York, Google Arts & Culture, NBC Universal, and Universal Studios Theme Parks.
He received his master's degree at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU and his BA in Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.