Jack Rusher

Jack Rusher is a multidisciplinary artist with a technical background, based in Berlin. He previously worked at Bell Labs/AT&T Research. He is the developer of Clerk, an open source programmer's assistant for Clojure, and worked with Matt Huebert and Dave Liepmann on Maria, a computational notebook and teaching environment for the same language. Rusher's other work includes machine learning for voice and audio, among it a voice clone trained in two languages for Made to Measure, a 2021 documentary film by the Berlin art collective Laokoon, and handwriting and geometric projection for a robot in Anyone Still Working Here?, on permanent exhibition at the Futurium in Berlin since 2019. He speaks frequently at programming conferences, with invited talks including "Stop Writing Dead Programs" at Strange Loop in 2022, and presented a paper on Clerk in industrial use at Splash/LIVE in 2024.