Melanie Hoff
Melanie Hoff is an artist, organizer, technologist, and educator committed to cultivating spaces of learning and feeling that encourage honesty, poetry, and reconciliation for the ways we are shaped by intersecting systems of classification and power. Melanie engages hacking and performance to express the absurdities of these systems while revealing the encoded ways in which they influence how we choose to live and what choices have been made for us. They teach about sex, technology, and social cybernetics at the School for Poetic Computation, Yale University, New York University, and have shown work at the New Museum, the Queens Museum, and elsewhere.
In 2021-2024 Melanie has been a co-director of two organizations, School for Poetic Computation and Hex House. In 2021 Melanie co-founded Hex House. At both organizations they have led efforts towards institutional change that has made who can work and be part of these spaces radically more accessible for people who are underrepresented in art and technology.
Across their roles as co-director, poet, artist and organizer they care about affirming and expanding the ways people are already adept at programming their environments. (2025)
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