Laurel Schwulst

Laurel Schwulst (born 1988) is an American artist, writer, and professor. She likes to create special environments for curiosity, learning, and reflecting. Selected works include “How to Build a Bird Kite” (interactive video tutorial for the New York Times, 2021), Flight Simulator (app for iOS and Android and published by Soft, 2019), and Perfume Area (a book of lyrical fragrance reviews co-written with Sydney Shen, published by Ambient Works in 2015). She was appointed lecturer at Yale in 2012, teaching courses including “Writing as Metadata” and “Interactive Concrete Poetry.” Since then, she has also taught at Princeton, California College of the Arts, Rutgers, and has given lectures and workshops internationally.