Peter Polack is an artist and researcher whose work addresses the messiness, violence, and embodied reality of computational control. His projects masquerade as found political artifacts: interactive narratives and simulations where technological utopias confront the nuances of social and political life. As a crip hacker and abolitionist, his engagement with technological criticism has personal stakes, a mode of reckoning with systems that produce political and physical vulnerability. His work has been published in humanities and philosophy journals, exhibited and presented in human rights fora, and used in grassroots settings for dismantling police information systems. He holds a PhD in Information Studies from UCLA and teaches on computational methods, with a theoretical focus on political theories of algorithms, critiques of police information systems, and the power structures of design and computation.