Kalen Iwamoto (b.1981) is a Japanese-Canadian conceptual writer and artist who lives and works in France. Raised between two languages and cultures, she embraces ambivalence and play in her relationship to language, exploring its structures as both constraint and possibility. She is considered a pioneer of blockchain poetics, and is a co-founder of the digital poetry gallery, theVERSEverse.

Since 2022, she has been working with her partner Julien Silvano, with whom she founded Wen New, an atelier that dwells in the liminal space between art, language and technology. Their polysemic works — at once playful and critical — lay bare the ambivalence of contemporary digital life and advance alternative ways of imagining, using and relating to text and technology.