Melanie Hoff

Preceptor in Engineering Sciences, SEAS

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 reveal how we choose to live and what choices have been made for us. They teach about sex, technology, and social cybernetics Yale University, New York University, and have shown work at the New Museum, the Queens Museum, and elsewhere. Melanie has co-directed two art and technology organizations, School for Poetic Computation and Hex House.