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1 | Melanie Hoff ⟴ ↭ ⥉ ⬼ ↯ ↬ | As a 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 play within and challenge these systems. They have taught at Harvard University, Yale University, New York University, RISD, and have presented their work at the Bronx Museum, 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.com | www.melaniehoff.com | |||||
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4 | Hex House | Founder & Co-director | 2018-ongoing | https://hexhouse.studio/ | ||||||
5 | School for Poetic Computation | Co-director | 2021-2024 | https://sfpc.study/ | ||||||
6 | Harvard GSD | Vsiting Professor | Fall 2024 | In-Person | ||||||
7 | School for Poetic Computation | Instructor: Consensual Hacking | Summer 2025 | In-Person | https://sfpc.study/sessions/summer-25/consensual-hacking | |||||
8 | Bronx Museum | WORKING KNOWLEDGE Shared Imaginings, New Futures Exhibition | Spring 2025 | https://bronxmuseum.org/exhibition/working-knowledge/ | ||||||
9 | School for Poetic Computation | Instructor: Code Societies: Cybernetic Sculpture | Spring 2025 | Online | https://sfpc.study/sessions/spring-25/cybernetic-sculpture | |||||
10 | School for Poetic Computation | Instructor: Digital Love Languages, Falling Failing Feeling Freeing | Fall 2024 | Online | https://sfpc.study/sessions/fall-24/digital-love-languages | |||||
11 | Wordhack | Dance Poem Revolution Presentation and Performance | Summer 2024 | In-Person & Online | https://www.instagram.com/p/C6z6iXNNsbE/?img_index=1 | https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/wordhack-soctober-2024 | ||||
12 | Brooklyn Art Book Fair | Dance Poem Revolution Installation | Fall 2024 | In-Person | https://www.bkabf.info/2024-exhibitors/ | |||||
13 | New York Art Book Fair Block Party | Dance Poem Revolution installation for School for Poetic Computation | Spring 2024 | In-Person | https://printedmatterartbookfairs.org/ | |||||
14 | School for Poetic Computation | Lead Organizer SFPC: Sex Ed | Spring 2024 | In-Person | https://sfpc.study/sessions/spring-24/sex-ed | |||||
15 | Civic Creative Base Tokyo | Cybernetics of Sex lecture | Winter 2023 | In-Person & Online | https://ccbt.rekibun.or.jp/en/players/melanie-hoff | |||||
16 | Amant | recursynonym performance at For Your Reference | Winter 2023 | In-Person | https://www.amant.org/programs/111-for-your-reference | |||||
17 | Amant | sex is the word our body bursts performance for Cyberfeminist Book Launch | Fall 2023 | In-Person | https://www.amant.org/programs/103-cyberfeminism-index-sex-is-the-world-our-desires-produce | |||||
18 | Pioneer Works | Digital Love Languages workshop as part of Software 4 Artists Day | Fall 2023 | In-Person | https://pioneerworks.org/programs/software-for-artists-day-8 | |||||
19 | Hex House | CAKEHOLE performance | Spring 2023 | In-Person | https://www.instagram.com/p/CrePxYSOgaG/?img_index=1 | |||||
20 | Recess Artist Residency | With the School for Poetic Computation | Summer 2023 | In-Person | http://www.recessart.org/session/ | |||||
21 | The Kitchen | Residency Advisor | 2023 | In-Person & Online | https://thekitchen.org/on-view/the-kitchen-l-a-b-residency-x-simons-foundation-x-school-for-poetic/ | |||||
22 | Hex House | Perverted Wedding Performance, curated by Cy X | Winter 2023 | In-Person | https://www.instagram.com/p/CqYRLMhOt6F/?img_index=1 | |||||
23 | New York Art Book Fair Block Party | Hoops & For Loops workshop with School for Poetic Computation | 2022 | In-Person | https://nyabf2022.printedmatterartbookfairs.org/Block-Party. https://www.instagram.com/p/CkJzvt-ukV_/ | |||||
24 | Rhizome | Artist Commission: Garlic Trust Harvest | Summer 2022 | In-Person | ||||||
25 | Cyberfeminist Index | Published Collection: Cybernetics of Sexual Labor | Summer 2023 | http://www.inventorypress.com/product/cyberfeminism-index | ||||||
26 | Wordhack | Artist Presentation | Summer 2022 | Online | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMUL1NwkC6M | |||||
27 | Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series | Lecture: Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series | Fall 2021 | Online | https://amt.parsons.edu/finearts/lectureseriestypes/visiting-artist-lecture-series/ | |||||
28 | Parsons University | Guest Lecturer: Artist Talk, Sustainable Systems Course with Jan Mun | Fall 2021 | Online | ||||||
29 | Processing Foundation | createCanvas Season 2, Interview with Saber Kahn | Spring 2021 | Online | https://medium.com/processing-foundation/createcanvas-season-2-melanie-hoff-f82e55ccee23 | |||||
30 | School for Poetic Computation | Digital Love Languages: Communion, Consent, and Refusal | Spring 2022 | Online | http://lovelanguages.melaniehoff.com/ | |||||
31 | Rhizome & Queens Museum | Wet Networks Exhibition | Fall/Winter 2021 | In-Person | https://queensmuseum.org/2021/10/wet-networks | |||||
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33 | Education | New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program | MPS | 2015 - 2017 | New York, NY | https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp | ||||
34 | School for Poetic Computation | ✳︎ | 2016 | New York, NY | https://sfpc.io/ | |||||
35 | Pratt Institute | BFA Sculpture | 2009 - 2013 | New York, NY | with a focus on sculpture, metalsmithing, and photography | http://www.visualvoicegallery.com/portfolio/past/melanie-hoff-15000-volts | ||||
36 | Education, Organizing & Curation | |||||||||
37 | School for Poetic Computation | Instructor: Digital Love Languages: Sensory Commons | Summer/Fall 2021 | In-Person | https://sfpc.io/cocoon/programs/#sensory-commons | http://digitallovelanguages.com/%e2%99%a1-class-page-%e2%99%a1/ | ||||
38 | School for Poetic Computation | Lead Organizer and Teaching Steward: Digital Love Languages | Summer 2020 | Online | https://2020lovelanguages.melaniehoff.com/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqOiIcCiaQ&t=397s | https://digitallovelanguages.github.io/ | https://rcravago.github.io/handle-with-care/inner-package.html | ||
39 | Code Societies Winter 2020 | Lead Organizer, Curruculum Designer, and Instructor | January 2020 | NYC | Co-organized with Neta Bomani & Emma Norton | http://sfpc.io/code-societies/ | https://sfpc.io/codesocieties/ | |||
40 | BUFU | Designer & Developer: Cloud9 Website | April 2020 | Online | http://cloud9.support/ | |||||
41 | School for Poetic Computation: YCAM | Instructor: Peer to Peer Folder Poetry | September 2019 | Yamaguchi, Japan | Co-Organized by Taeyoon Choi and Lauren Gardner | https://gist.github.com/melaniehoff/96bffd279b0ea66f61291e231283aab5 | https://medium.com/sfpc/sfpc-in-yamaguchi-day-4-aca5c3191a71 | |||
42 | School for Poetic Computation: Detroit Theme: Uncovering Technology | Co-organizing the session, leading curriculum design, and Instructor: Peer to Peer Folder Poetry | August 2019 | Detroit, MI | Co-Organized by Neta Bomani, Taeyoon Choi, Lauren Gardner, and myself | https://sfpc.io/detroit/ | https://github.com/SFPC/detroit | |||
43 | Radical Networks | Instructor: Peer to Peer Folder Poetry | October 2019 | NYC | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-networks-tickets-72061121755 | https://radicalnetworks.org/archives/2019/participants/melanie-hoff/ | ||||
44 | School for Poetic Computation | Instructor: Code Poetry Track | Fall 2019 | NYC | Student Blog Post | |||||
45 | Rhizome x Arts in Parts | Instructor: Imagining AI, a Game of Trust, and the Earth! | July 2019 | Rockaway Beach, NY | Joined by Leila Kass | https://www.artsinparts.org/ | ||||
46 | School for Poetic Computation | Lead organizer and facilitator: Code Societies Winter 2020 | 2019 | New York, NY | Invited by the School for Poetic Computation | https://sfpc.io/code-societies/ | ||||
47 | Pioneer Works | Facilitator & curator: Disassembler Roundtable 3 part series | 2019 | Brooklyn, NY | Invited by Bethany Tabor | https://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/ | ||
48 | School for Poetic Computation | Lead organizer and facilitator: Code Societies Winter 2019 | 2019 | New York, NY | Invited by the School for Poetic Computation | http://sfpc.io/codesocieties-winter-19/ | ||||
49 | School for Poetic Computation | Lead organizer and facilitator: Code Societies Summer 2018 | 2018 | New York, NY | Invited by the School for Poetic Computation | https://sfpc.io/codesocieties/ | ||||
50 | Cybernetics Conference | Co-organizer | 2017 | New York, NY | with Sam Hart and Francis Tseng, Sarah Hamerman, David Hecht, Charles Eppely, Dan Taeyoung. Hosted by Prime Produce | https://cybernetics.social/schedule/ | ||||
51 | University Teaching | New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program | Instructor: Cybernetics of Sex: Technology, Feminisms & the Choreography of Control | Fall 2020, Fall 2021 | Online | https://cyberneticsofsex.melaniehoff.com/ | ||||
52 | New York University, Integrated Digital Media | Instructor: Intro to Web | Spring 2020 | NYC | https://melaniehoff.github.io/web-nyu-idm/ | |||||
53 | Rhode Island School of Design, Industrial Design | Lecturer: Thesis Research | Fall 2019 | Providence, Rhode Island | ||||||
54 | Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts | Lecturer: Experimental Computation | Fall 2017 | New Brunswick, NJ | Critical interaction design, HTML CSS JS, generative design, physical computing | https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Design-2B-Experimental-Computation-Syllabus--AewE0J_Ip0dNERNpvNlo4~Q2Ag-oED1ojFsTEPayoB2yIjdU | ||||
55 | Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts | Lecturer: Experimental Computation | Spring 2018 | New Brunswick, NJ | Critical interaction design, HTML CSS JS, generative design, physical computing | https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Design-2B-Experimental-Computation-Syllabus--AewE0J_Ip0dNERNpvNlo4~Q2Ag-oED1ojFsTEPayoB2yIjdU | ||||
56 | Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts | Lecturer: Experimental Computation | Fall 2018 | New Brunswick, NJ | Critical interaction design, HTML CSS JS, generative design, physical computing | https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Design-2B-Experimental-Computation-Syllabus--AewE0J_Ip0dNERNpvNlo4~Q2Ag-oED1ojFsTEPayoB2yIjdU | ||||
57 | Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts | Lecturer: Experimental Computation | Spring 2019 | New Brunswick, NJ | Critical interaction design, HTML CSS JS, generative design, physical computing | https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Design-2B-Experimental-Computation-Syllabus--AewE0J_Ip0dNERNpvNlo4~Q2Ag-oED1ojFsTEPayoB2yIjdU | ||||
58 | Rhode Island School of Design | Lecturer: Thesis Research | Fall 2019 | Providence, Rhode Island | Industrial Design Department | |||||
59 | Workshops | Eyebeam | Poetic Computation: Folder Poetry | April 2020 | Online | |||||
60 | Pioneer Works | Installation: Draw What You Think Alexa Looks Like | December 2019 | Brooklyn, NY | Second Sundays | |||||
61 | Detroit Community Technology Project | Instructor: Folder Poetry - School for Poetic Computation | 2019 | Detroit, MI | with support from Neta Bomani, Taeyoon Choi, & Lauren Gardner | https://github.com/melaniehoff/folderpoetry | ||||
62 | The Room Project | Instructor: Collect, Code, Connect - School for Poetic Computation | 2019 | Detroit, MI | co-led with Neta Bomani, Taeyoon Choi, & Lauren Gardner | |||||
63 | Pioneer Works | Instructor: Cybernetics of Sex: Technology, Feminisms, and the Choreography of Culture | 2019 | Brooklyn, NY | Invited by Angeline Meitzler | https://pioneerworks.org/classes/cybernetics-of-sex/ | ||||
64 | School for Poetic Computation | Instructor: Cybernetics of Sex: Technology, Feminisms, and the Choreography of Culture | 2019 | New York, NY | Taught as part of Code Societies | http://sfpc.io/codesocieties-winter-19/2019/01/25/cybernetics-of-sex.html | ||||
65 | School for Poetic Computation | Instructor: Cybernetics of Sex: Technology, Feminisms, and the Choreography of Culture | 2018 | New York, NY | Taught as part of the critical theory track led by American Artist | http://sfpc.io/codesocieties-winter-19/2019/01/25/cybernetics-of-sex.html | ||||
66 | Parsons Journalism + Design | Instructor: Browser as Investigative Toolbox | 2018 | New York, NY | A workshop on building Chrome extensions for research | https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Design-2B-Experimental-Computation-Syllabus--AewE0J_Ip0dNERNpvNlo4~Q2Ag-oED1ojFsTEPayoB2yIjdU | ||||
67 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Instructor: Cybernetic Marginalia | 2019 | Cambridge, MA | Co-led with the Cybernetics Library Organized by Gary Zhexi Zhang for MIT ACT's February School | http://thefebruary.school/ | ||||
68 | Queens Museum | Instructor: Field Remediations | 2018 | Queens, NY | Co-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 | ||||
69 | School for Poetic Computation | Instructor: Social Network Paintings | 2018 | New York, NY | Co-led with Dan Taeyoung | https://github.com/smalldatasquad/social-network-paintings | ||||
70 | Pioneer Works | Instructor: Data Cindy, Sherman Query | 2017 | Brooklyn, NY | Co-led with Dan Taeyoung | https://pioneerworks.org/classes/data-cindy-sherman-query/ | ||||
71 | SUNY Purchase | Guest lecturer at Social Software: Critical Chrome Extensions | 2017 | Purchase, NY | Invited by Tega Brain | |||||
72 | NYU ITP Unconference | Instructor: Critical Chrome Extensions | 2017 | New York, NY | ||||||
73 | NYU ITP Unconference | Instructor: Artists Interrupting Cybernetic Systems | 2017 | New York, NY | ||||||
74 | Residencies | Pioneer Works | Summer 2019 tech resident | 2019 | Brooklyn, NY | Organized by Tommy Martinez and Angeline Meitzler | https://pioneerworks.org/technology/residency/ | |||
75 | The Strange Foundation | Spring 2019 cohort | 2019 | West Showkan, NY | Organized by Willa Koerner and Daniel Morgan | https://thestrange.foundation/ | ||||
76 | Selected Talks | Parsons MFA Photography | Visiting Artist Lecture | June 2020 | Online | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq-Mc1Xm4DI | ||||
77 | Trigger Org | Artist Lecture & Panel | March 2020 | Online | https://drive.google.com/file/d/17SH4vcCbmYLBrs0LflOqWYSlpPEZF0Ys/view?usp=sharing | |||||
78 | Teachers College, Columbia University | Artist Lecture & Guest Critic | April 2020 | Online | ||||||
79 | New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program | Lecturer: Code Societies Presentation | March 2020 | Brooklyn, NY | Organized by the ITP CodeLab | |||||
80 | Pioneer Works | Panel moderator: The New Weird at Press Play Book and Music Fair | 2019 | Brooklyn, NY | Invited by Elvia Wilk | https://pioneerworks.org/programs/press-play-fair-2019/ | ||||
81 | Independent Curators International and Unbag Magazine | Panelist: Institutional Entropy | 2019 | New York, NY | Co-presented with the Cybernetics Library | https://www.facebook.com/events/376201609897017/ | ||||
82 | Goethe Institut USA - Facets Conference | Lecture and Panel: "In Support of Bots That are Narrow & Full" | 2018 | New York, NY | Organized by Caroline Sinders | https://twitter.com/FacetsCon | ||||
83 | BAM Wendy's Subway - Always Already Desiring Machines | Lecture and Panel: "Always Already Searching" | 2017 | Brooklyn, NY | Organized by Amanda Parmer | https://www.facebook.com/events/bam-fisher/always-already-desiring-machines/1760467287589999/ | ||||
84 | Spectral Event | Lecture and Panel | 2017 | New Rochelle, NJ | Organized by Amelia Bearskin | |||||
85 | Telfair Museum - Pulse Art + Technology | Lecture: Artist talk | 2017 | Savannah, Georgia | ||||||
86 | Babycastles - Wordhack | Lecture: Artist talk | 2017 | New York, NY | Organized by Todd Anderson & Claire Donato | |||||
87 | Cybernetics Conference | Panel moderator: Allison Parrish & Mimi Onuoha | 2017 | Brooklyn, NY | Organized by the Cybernetics Library | |||||
88 | The Simple Show | Lecture: Artist talk | 2017 | Brooklyn, NY | Organized by Kady Ruth Ashkraft and Jenny Nelson | |||||
89 | Group Exhibitions & Installations | Tate Exchange Higher Resolutions | Draw What You Think Alexa Looks Like Installation Led Cybernetics Library workshop, Cybernetic Choreographies | September 2019 | London, UK | Organized by HyphenLabs | https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/tate-exchange/workshop/higher-resolution | |||
90 | Rhizome | Performance and installation of Garlic = Rich Air and Garlic Trust | July 2019 | Rockaway Beach, NY | Collaboration with Shu Lea Cheang | https://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/jul/10/garlicrich-air-2030/ | ||||
91 | The New Museum of Contemporary Art | The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics | 2019 | New 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 | ||||
92 | Soft Surplus | Offerning | 2018 | Brooklyn, NY | OFFERING. 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 | ||||
93 | Internet Archive | Decentralized Web Summit Creative Track Exhibition | 2018 | SanFrancisco, CA | Artists 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/ | ||||
94 | Telfair Museum | Pulse Art + Technology Exhibition | 2017 | Savannah, GA | A multi-day event and exhibition highlighting innovative, technology-based art. | https://www.telfair.org/visit/jepson-center/ | ||||
95 | The Hand Gallery | Finger Food | 2017 | Brooklyn, NY | http://thehand.space/shows/finger-food/ | |||||
96 | The School for Poetic Computation | Alt-AI | 2016 | New York, NY | Exhibition as part of Alt-AI Conference organized by Gene Kogan | http://genekogan.com/alt-AI/#exhibition | ||||
97 | The School for Poetic Computation | Society for Power Control | 2016 | New York, NY | https://sfpc.io/classes/summer2016show/ | |||||
98 | Ecoartspace | Transmissions | 2014 | Novato, CA | ||||||
99 | Solo Exhibitions | Visual Voice Gallery | 15,000 Volts | 2015 | Montreal, BC | 15,000 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/ | |||
100 | Press ✳︎ Online | Cyberfeminist Index | Collection: Cybernetics of Sexual Labor | September 2020 |