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I am a computer scientist, researcher and community organizer.

My main project currently is Orbital Studies Magazine, a print-first magazine seeking to cultivate a poetically-attuned, decelerationist, vision of how science, math, and perhaps even technology, can help us connect more deeply with the world.

I'm a partner at Probably Studio, where we help clients understand emerging technologies, and help them build right at the edge of the newly possible.

I've built startups, published industrial, academic, and independent research, created conferences and workshops and festivals. You can see my chronology or my LinkedIn for more.

My research currently has me interested in the role of analogy in our understanding of the world. I'm exploring the limits of the computational analogy as it becomes more dominant (and domineering) and am working on shifting the paradigm towards the incredible mystery of life as the source of the richest metaphors. It strikes me as better that we understand our creations in terms of life than understand life in terms of our creations.

You can find my email address at bottom, however I feel strongly that the intimacy of hand-written correspondence is unparalleled. If you send me a letter I will be touched by the effort and I promise that I will reply in kind. Communication is not about efficiency — where are we rushing to?

Xavier Snelgrove
#616-2938 Dundas St. W
Toronto, ON
M6P 3N8
Canada

Some Online Projects

Only a small fraction of my work is available online. I often give talks, do in-person organizing, or create ephemeral online conversations. Ultimately the relationships that come out of the work are as important if not more so than the work itself.

To get a feeling for some of those events you can head over to Chronology