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'''Melanie Hoff''' is an artist based in [[New York City|Brooklyn, NY]]. Her practice investigates identity, visibility, and the ways in which appearances actively shape our interactions and consciousness. She uses technology and computation to play with systems that underlie contemporary society. She is interested in taking art out of the museum and into the processes of everyday life. Her previous work explored our relationship to technology and science by taking scientific processes and the aesthetics of the experiment as raw material. She studied sculpture, metalworking, and photography at Pratt institute and is currently a masters candidate at ITP, New York University. Her work has been featured on Radiolab, the Discovery Channel, and exhibited in galleries internationally.
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'''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.
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In 2021-2024 Melanie has been a co-director of two organizations, [[School for Poetic Computation]] and [https://www.instagram.com/hexh0use/ 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.
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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. [https://www.melaniehoff.com/ (2025)]
  
 
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* [https://www.melaniehoff.com/ Website]
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* [https://www.instagram.com/melanieh0ff/ Instagram]
 
* [https://twitter.com/melanie_hoff Twitter]
 
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* [https://www.are.na/melanie-hoff Are.na]
 
* [http://github.com/melaniehoff Github]
 
* [http://github.com/melaniehoff Github]

Latest revision as of 13:29, 15 May 2025

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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