Glenn S. Ritchey III

I make work at the intersection of computational methods and humanistic questions—Markov chains, cut-up algorithms, constrained generation—with process made visible and accessible as both an aesthetic and a political commitment. My practice includes generative text devices with thermal printers, conceptual sculpture engaging right-to-repair advocacy, data visualizations pairing political data with grassroots visual culture, and independent publishing through small press and zines. I program films, make music, and distribute work through whatever channels resist the black box.

My current projects include Francoism, a narrativized Markov-chain analysis of Jess Franco’s filmography forthcoming from Inside the Castle, and Like a Mountain of Sleep, an interactive fiction work accepted to the 2026 Electronic Literatue Organization conference.

I’m a PhD student in Texts & Technology at UCF, where my research examines electronic literature, procedural authorship, and visual culture in contested spaces—particularly Belfast and Kashmir.

A central question animates all of it: How do we democratize who gets to make meaning? This operates across my creative work (designing open-source generative systems), my research (examining who controls narrative technologies), and my teaching (helping first-year composition students navigate what “writing” means inside and outside algorithmic spaces).