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Melanie Hoff
⟴ ↭ ⥉ ⬼ ↯ ↬		As a social software artist, educator, and organizer Melanie studies the role technology plays in social organization and reinforcing hegemonic structures. As co-director of the School for Poetic Computation, and cofounder of Hex House and Cybernetics Library, they strive to cultivate spaces of learning and feeling that encourage honesty, poetry and reconciliation for the ways we are shaped by intersecting systems of classification and power dynamics. Melanie uses hacking and performative installation to express the absurdities of these systems and their attendant symbols while revealing encoded ways they impact and inform how we can choose to live and what choices have been made for us. They teach at Yale University and have shown work at the New Museum, the Queens Museum and elsewhere.. They teach at Yale University and have presented their work at the New Museum, the Queens Museum, Tate Exchange, The Internet Archive, Pioneer Works, and elsewhere.Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Logic Magazine, Huffington Post, Radiolab, Fast Company, Vice Impact, The Discovery Channel, among others.b. New Years Eve 1989 —
m [at] melaniehoff.comwww.melaniehoff.com
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Current and Recent
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Recess Artist ResidencyWith the School for Poetic ComputationSummer 2023In-Personhttp://www.recessart.org/session/
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The Kitchen Residency Advisor 2023In-Person & Online
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Rhizome Artist Commission: Garlic Trust Harvest Summer 2022In-Person
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Cyberfeminist IndexPublished Collection: Cybernetics of Sexual LaborForthcomingPrinthttp://www.inventorypress.com/product/cyberfeminism-index
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WordhackArtist PresentationSummer 2022Onlinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMUL1NwkC6M
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Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture SeriesLecture: Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series Fall 2021Onlinehttps://amt.parsons.edu/finearts/lectureseriestypes/visiting-artist-lecture-series/
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Parsons UniversityGuest Lecturer: Artist Talk, Sustainable Systems Course with Jan MunFall 2021Online
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Processing FoundationcreateCanvas Season 2, Interview with Saber KahnSpring 2021Onlinehttps://medium.com/processing-foundation/createcanvas-season-2-melanie-hoff-f82e55ccee23
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School for Poetic ComputationDigital Love Languages: Communion, Consent, and RefusalSpring 2022Onlinehttp://lovelanguages.melaniehoff.com/
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Rhizome & Queens MuseumWet Networks ExhibitionFall/Winter 2021In-Personhttps://queensmuseum.org/2021/10/wet-networks
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Logic MagazineContributor: KIDS Issue, "Draw What You Think Alexa Looks Like"Fall 2021Onlinehttps://logicmag.io/kids/
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School for Poetic ComputationInstructor: Digital Love Languages: Sensory CommonsSummer/Fall 2021In-Personhttps://sfpc.io/cocoon/programs/#sensory-commonshttp://digitallovelanguages.com/%e2%99%a1-class-page-%e2%99%a1/
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New York University, Interactive Telecommunications ProgramInstructor: Cybernetics of Sex: Technology, Feminisms & the Choreography of ControlFall 2020, Fall 2021Onlinehttps://cyberneticsofsex.melaniehoff.com/
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School for Poetic ComputationLead Organizer and Teaching Steward: Digital Love LanguagesSummer 2020Online https://2020lovelanguages.melaniehoff.com/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqOiIcCiaQ&t=397shttps://digitallovelanguages.github.io/https://rcravago.github.io/handle-with-care/inner-package.html
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Parsons MFA PhotographyVisiting Artist Lecture June 2020Onlinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq-Mc1Xm4DI
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Trigger OrgArtist Lecture & PanelMarch 2020Onlinehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/17SH4vcCbmYLBrs0LflOqWYSlpPEZF0Ys/view?usp=sharing
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Teachers College, Columbia University
Artist Lecture & Guest CriticApril 2020Online
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Eyebeam Poetic Computation: Folder PoetryApril 2020Online
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BUFUDesigner & Developer: Cloud9 Website April 2020Onlinehttp://cloud9.support/
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New York University, Interactive Telecommunications ProgramLecturer: Code Societies PresentationMarch 2020Brooklyn, NYOrganized by the ITP CodeLab
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Code Societies Winter 2020Lead Organizer, Curruculum Designer, and InstructorJanuary 2020NYCCo-organized with Neta Bomani & Emma Nortonhttp://sfpc.io/code-societies/https://sfpc.io/codesocieties/
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New York University, Integrated Digital MediaInstructor: Intro to WebSpring 2020NYChttps://melaniehoff.github.io/web-nyu-idm/
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EducationNew York University, Interactive Telecommunications ProgramMPS2015 - 2017New York, NYhttps://tisch.nyu.edu/itp
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School for Poetic Computation✳︎2016New York, NYhttps://sfpc.io/
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Pratt InstituteBFA Sculpture

2009 - 2013New York, NYwith a focus on sculpture, metalsmithing, and photography http://www.visualvoicegallery.com/portfolio/past/melanie-hoff-15000-volts
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Education, Organizing & CurationSchool for Poetic Computation: YCAMInstructor: Peer to Peer Folder PoetrySeptember 2019Yamaguchi, JapanCo-Organized by Taeyoon Choi and Lauren Gardnerhttps://gist.github.com/melaniehoff/96bffd279b0ea66f61291e231283aab5
https://medium.com/sfpc/sfpc-in-yamaguchi-day-4-aca5c3191a71
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School for Poetic Computation: Detroit
Theme: Uncovering Technology		Co-organizing the session, leading curriculum design, and Instructor: Peer to Peer Folder PoetryAugust 2019Detroit, MICo-Organized by Neta Bomani, Taeyoon Choi, Lauren Gardner, and myselfhttps://sfpc.io/detroit/
https://github.com/SFPC/detroit
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Radical NetworksInstructor: Peer to Peer Folder PoetryOctober 2019NYChttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-networks-tickets-72061121755https://radicalnetworks.org/archives/2019/participants/melanie-hoff/
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School for Poetic ComputationInstructor: Code Poetry TrackFall 2019NYCStudent Blog Post
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Rhizome x Arts in PartsInstructor: Imagining AI, a Game of Trust, and the Earth!July 2019Rockaway Beach, NYJoined by Leila Kasshttps://www.artsinparts.org/
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School for Poetic ComputationLead organizer and facilitator: Code Societies Winter 20202019New York, NYInvited by the School for Poetic Computationhttps://sfpc.io/code-societies/
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Pioneer WorksFacilitator & curator: Disassembler Roundtable 3 part series
2019Brooklyn, NYInvited by Bethany Taborhttps://pioneerworks.org/classes/disassembler-roundtable-deprogramming-with-hypnosis/

https://pioneerworks.org/classes/disassembler-roundtable-sensory-commons/https://pioneerworks.org/classes/disassembler-roundtable-de-tooling-intimacy/
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School for Poetic ComputationLead organizer and facilitator: Code Societies Winter 20192019New York, NYInvited by the School for Poetic Computationhttp://sfpc.io/codesocieties-winter-19/
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School for Poetic ComputationLead organizer and facilitator: Code Societies Summer 20182018New York, NYInvited by the School for Poetic Computationhttps://sfpc.io/codesocieties/
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Cybernetics ConferenceCo-organizer2017New York, NYwith Sam Hart and Francis Tseng, Sarah Hamerman, David Hecht, Charles Eppely, Dan Taeyoung. Hosted by Prime Producehttps://cybernetics.social/schedule/
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University TeachingRhode Island School of Design, Industrial DesignLecturer: Thesis ResearchFall 2019Providence, Rhode Island
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Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the ArtsLecturer: Experimental Computation Fall 2017New Brunswick, NJCritical interaction design, HTML CSS JS, generative design, physical computinghttps://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Design-2B-Experimental-Computation-Syllabus--AewE0J_Ip0dNERNpvNlo4~Q2Ag-oED1ojFsTEPayoB2yIjdU
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Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the ArtsLecturer: Experimental Computation Spring 2018New Brunswick, NJCritical interaction design, HTML CSS JS, generative design, physical computinghttps://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Design-2B-Experimental-Computation-Syllabus--AewE0J_Ip0dNERNpvNlo4~Q2Ag-oED1ojFsTEPayoB2yIjdU
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Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the ArtsLecturer: Experimental Computation Fall 2018New Brunswick, NJCritical interaction design, HTML CSS JS, generative design, physical computinghttps://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Design-2B-Experimental-Computation-Syllabus--AewE0J_Ip0dNERNpvNlo4~Q2Ag-oED1ojFsTEPayoB2yIjdU
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Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the ArtsLecturer: Experimental Computation Spring 2019New Brunswick, NJCritical interaction design, HTML CSS JS, generative design, physical computinghttps://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Design-2B-Experimental-Computation-Syllabus--AewE0J_Ip0dNERNpvNlo4~Q2Ag-oED1ojFsTEPayoB2yIjdU
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Rhode Island School of DesignLecturer: Thesis ResearchFall 2019Providence, Rhode IslandIndustrial Design Department
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WorkshopsPioneer WorksInstallation: Draw What You Think Alexa Looks LikeDecember 2019Brooklyn, NYSecond Sundays
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Detroit Community Technology ProjectInstructor: Folder Poetry - School for Poetic Computation2019Detroit, MIwith support from Neta Bomani, Taeyoon Choi, & Lauren Gardnerhttps://github.com/melaniehoff/folderpoetry
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The Room ProjectInstructor: Collect, Code, Connect - School for Poetic Computation2019Detroit, MIco-led with Neta Bomani, Taeyoon Choi, & Lauren Gardner
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Pioneer WorksInstructor: Cybernetics of Sex: Technology, Feminisms, and the Choreography of Culture2019Brooklyn, NYInvited by Angeline Meitzlerhttps://pioneerworks.org/classes/cybernetics-of-sex/
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School for Poetic ComputationInstructor: Cybernetics of Sex: Technology, Feminisms, and the Choreography of Culture2019New York, NYTaught as part of Code Societieshttp://sfpc.io/codesocieties-winter-19/2019/01/25/cybernetics-of-sex.html
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School for Poetic ComputationInstructor: Cybernetics of Sex: Technology, Feminisms, and the Choreography of Culture2018New York, NYTaught as part of the critical theory track led by American Artisthttp://sfpc.io/codesocieties-winter-19/2019/01/25/cybernetics-of-sex.html
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Parsons Journalism + DesignInstructor: Browser as Investigative Toolbox2018New York, NYA workshop on building Chrome extensions for researchhttps://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Design-2B-Experimental-Computation-Syllabus--AewE0J_Ip0dNERNpvNlo4~Q2Ag-oED1ojFsTEPayoB2yIjdU
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Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInstructor: Cybernetic Marginalia2019Cambridge, MACo-led with the Cybernetics Library
Organized by Gary Zhexi Zhang for MIT ACT's February School		http://thefebruary.school/
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Queens MuseumInstructor: Field Remediations2018Queens, NYCo-led with the Cybernetics Library & Karolina Sobecka: https://queensmuseum.org/events/join-queens-museum-studio-program-artist-in-residence-karolina-sobecka-for-a-public-workshop-on-her-newest-project-field-re-mediations
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School for Poetic ComputationInstructor: Social Network Paintings2018New York, NYCo-led with Dan Taeyounghttps://github.com/smalldatasquad/social-network-paintings
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Pioneer WorksInstructor: Data Cindy, Sherman Query2017Brooklyn, NYCo-led with Dan Taeyounghttps://pioneerworks.org/classes/data-cindy-sherman-query/
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SUNY PurchaseGuest lecturer at Social Software: Critical Chrome Extensions2017Purchase, NYInvited by Tega Brain
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 NYU ITP Unconference Instructor: Critical Chrome Extensions2017New York, NY
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 NYU ITP Unconference Instructor: Artists Interrupting Cybernetic Systems2017New York, NY
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ResidenciesPioneer WorksSummer 2019 tech resident2019Brooklyn, NYOrganized by Tommy Martinez and Angeline Meitzlerhttps://pioneerworks.org/technology/residency/
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The Strange FoundationSpring 2019 cohort2019West Showkan, NYOrganized by Willa Koerner and Daniel Morganhttps://thestrange.foundation/
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Selected TalksPioneer WorksPanel moderator: The New Weird at Press Play Book and Music Fair2019Brooklyn, NYInvited by Elvia Wilkhttps://pioneerworks.org/programs/press-play-fair-2019/
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Independent Curators International and Unbag MagazinePanelist: Institutional Entropy2019New York, NYCo-presented with the Cybernetics Libraryhttps://www.facebook.com/events/376201609897017/
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Goethe Institut USA - Facets ConferenceLecture and Panel: "In Support of Bots That
are Narrow & Full"		2018New York, NYOrganized by Caroline Sindershttps://twitter.com/FacetsCon
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BAM Wendy's Subway - Always Already Desiring Machines
Lecture and Panel: "Always Already Searching"
2017Brooklyn, NYOrganized by Amanda Parmerhttps://www.facebook.com/events/bam-fisher/always-already-desiring-machines/1760467287589999/
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Spectral EventLecture and Panel2017New Rochelle, NJOrganized by Amelia Bearskin
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Telfair Museum - Pulse Art + TechnologyLecture: Artist talk2017Savannah, Georgia
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Babycastles - WordhackLecture: Artist talk2017New York, NYOrganized by Todd Anderson & Claire Donato
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Cybernetics Conference
Panel moderator: Allison Parrish & Mimi Onuoha
2017Brooklyn, NYOrganized by the Cybernetics Library
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The Simple ShowLecture: Artist talk2017Brooklyn, NYOrganized by Kady Ruth Ashkraft and Jenny Nelson
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Group Exhibitions & InstallationsTate Exchange Higher ResolutionsDraw What You Think Alexa Looks Like Installation
Led Cybernetics Library workshop, Cybernetic Choreographies		September 2019London, UKOrganized by HyphenLabshttps://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/tate-exchange/workshop/higher-resolution
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RhizomePerformance and installation of Garlic = Rich Air and Garlic TrustJuly 2019Rockaway Beach, NYCollaboration with Shu Lea Cheanghttps://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/jul/10/garlicrich-air-2030/
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The New Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics2019New York, NY“The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics” features sixteen works from throughout net art history, showcasing a wide range of forms—websites, software, sculpture, graphics, books, and merchandise—while offering a space for considering the internet as social process, material infrastructure, and lived experience.https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/the-art-happens-here-net-art-s-archival-poetics
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Soft SurplusOfferning2018Brooklyn, NYOFFERING. Soft Surplus is a home of offerings- conceptual, social, physical and architectural. The members of this space accept these offerings and create their own - exercising and establishing creative rituals that continue to mark this space.https://www.rhaberstroh.com/news/2019/2/19/offering-at-soft-surplus
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Internet ArchiveDecentralized Web Summit Creative Track Exhibition2018SanFrancisco, CAArtists represent the culture now taking root within the decentralized web. The Creative Track, co-organized by Mindy Seu and Sam Hart, provides a venue for artists to work with technologists to imagine what a decentralized web should look like as this ecosystem begins to take shape.https://decentralizedweb.net/creative-track/
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Telfair MuseumPulse Art + Technology Exhibition2017Savannah, GAA multi-day event and exhibition highlighting innovative, technology-based art.https://www.telfair.org/visit/jepson-center/
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The Hand GalleryFinger Food2017Brooklyn, NYhttp://thehand.space/shows/finger-food/
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The School for Poetic ComputationAlt-AI2016New York, NYExhibition as part of Alt-AI Conference organized by Gene Koganhttp://genekogan.com/alt-AI/#exhibition
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The School for Poetic ComputationSociety for Power Control2016New York, NYhttps://sfpc.io/classes/summer2016show/
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EcoartspaceTransmissions2014Novato, CA
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Solo ExhibitionsVisual Voice Gallery15,000 Volts2015Montreal, BC15,000 Volts by American artist Melanie Hoff. The 15,000 Volts - Passage and Control series is the result of years of experimentation directing fractal burns in wood. http://www.visualvoicegallery.com/portfolio/past/melanie-hoff-15000-volts/
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Press ✳︎ OnlineCyberfeminist IndexCollection: Cybernetics of Sexual LaborSeptember 2020
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The Fruitful BlogInterview with Melanie HoffJanuary 2020On Code Societies by Laurel Schwulsthttps://fruitful.school/blog/2020-01-17.html
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New York Tech Zine Fair"Soft Surplus on Art-washing, Social Technologies and Friendship"2019Interview with Soft Surplushttps://techzinefair.org/2019/01/06/in-conversation-with-soft-surplus.html
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Frieze"Art Versus Silicon Valley: Are Artists Losing the Conceptual Advantage?"2018for Distributed Gardens with the Cybernetics Libraryhttps://frieze.com/article/art-versus-silicon-valley-are-artists-losing-conceptual-advantage
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VICE Impact"Artists Offer Tools of Resistance From Companies Collecting Personal Data"2017for Small Data Squadhttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbm593/artists-offer-tools-of-resistance-from-companies-collecting-personal-data
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TRYTOBEGOOD Blog"Small Data Squad’s Internet Reincarnation Autobiography Research Service"2017for Small Data Squad https://medium.com/trytobegood/small-data-squads-internet-reincarnation-autobiography-research-service-c7aea63f60ed
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TRYTOBEGOOD Podcast"Small Data Squad x TRYTOBEGOOD"2017Small Data Squad interviewhttps://player.fm/series/trytobegood/small-data-squad-x-trytobegood
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Quiet Lunch"Artists We Know: Catching up with Melanie Hoff"2017Artist interviewhttps://www.quietlunch.com/artists-we-know-catching-up-with-melanie-hoff/
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Fast Company"This Thesaurus Translates Between Liberals And Conservatives"2017for Partisan Thesaurushttps://www.fastcompany.com/3066801/proof-that-liberals-and-conservatives-speak-different-languages
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The Observer"This Company Securely Stores Computer Epidemics Inside Lab Test Tubes"2016for Small Data Squadhttps://observer.com/2016/11/internet-yami-ichi-nyc-2/
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VICE Motherboard"This Screen-Scrambling Tool Only Reveals Your Browser with Special Glasses"2016for Decodeliahttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxxy9/-this-screen-scrambling-tool-only-reveals-your-browser-with-special-glasses
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IEEE Electronics 360"Q&A: When Art and Technology Merge"2016Artist interviewhttps://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/6947/q-a-when-art-and-technology-merge
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VICE Motherboard"Inside the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon"2016for Yourinatehttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3dab5k/inside-the-stupid-shit-no-one-needs-terrible-ideas-hackathon
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Press ✳︎ PrintArena Annual: TendingCode Societies, A Speculative Oral History: The Cybernetics of Reproduction2020 (upcoming)
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Ánodo-Cátodo, la memoria química esculpida por electrones, Ana Soler and Kako Castro

15,000 Volts featured2014https://www.amazon.ca/%C3%81nodo-C%C3%A1todo-Kako-Castro/dp/8415097972
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Press ✳︎ TvDiscovery Channel
Outrageous Acts of Science		Artist interview – 15,000 Volts featured2015
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Public CollectionsLabocine Films Imagine Science Films15,000 Volts2013http://imaginesciencefilms.org/labocine
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AwardsOfficial Selection Imagine Science Film Festival 15,000 Volts 2014New York, NY
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Vimeo Staff Pick15,000 Volts 2014