Tim Szetela is a designer, animator, and digital artist, who creates computational animation, games, archives, and assorted interfaces for visualizing patterns of motion, data, and technology.
Rewordable, the word building card game he co-designed, was published by Penguin Random House. His short films have screened at numerous international animation festivals, including Anima Mundi, Annecy, the Holland Animation Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, and Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films. He has shown work at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Museum of Moving Image (New York), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), as well as a variety of digital art, game, and technology festivals, conferences, and exhibitions.
He has consulted on technology and design and produced digital content for a wide range of artists and organizations. He also teaches courses and workshops in animation, media production, design, and computing at several universities. He currently teaches at Princeton University and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He also has taught at Harvard University, New York University (in its Brooklyn and Shanghai campuses), and the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Querétaro, Mexico.
He received his master's degree at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University and his BA in Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.