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Sex Ed: A Pleasure and Queer Centered Study in Epistemic Empowerment2025A book documenting Sex Ed, a pleasure- and queer-centered intensive reimagining how we learn about sex and what counts as knowledge. Published by the School for Poetic Computation.
Dance Poem Revolution2023–2026A game about poetry and revolution inspired by the popular rhythm game Dance Dance Revolution.
Melt2026An anonymous chatroom for poetry workshops, where people meet through language before identity.
Consensual Hacking2020–2026A zine and participatory performance workshop that explores consent, shared risk, and intimacy through the possibility of hacking into one another’s computers.
Sex is the World Our Desires Produce2025A performance exploring how desire materializes worlds through language, technology, sound, breath, and the reproductive labor of friendship.
The Origin of the Word: Language, Lineage, Lovers and Logins2026A performance lecture that asks how the languages we inherit also write us and what it looks like to write back.
Little Red Riding Hood2025A performance reimagining an older, oral Little Red Riding Hood, in which one body plays both the girl and the wolf.
CAKEHOLE2023A play that is an oral history that is a clown that looks like a cake, made for Hex House's first birthday.
Folder Poetry2018–Repurposing the common practice of computer folder organization as a
new kind of poetic form.
Always Already Programming2020An essay arguing that everyone who uses a computer has, in important ways, always already been programming it.
Perverted Wedding2023A perverted wedding performance.
HEXNYE2024
Community Roleplay2025
Collective G00n Cave2024A multi-channel video installation of anonymously submitted videos responding to the prompt: "Share a video that is erotic to you."
The Cyborg Stork2025
The Witness the Shield the Blade and the Word is the Body is the Word2023
Cybernetics Library
WikiGameJam2025
Draw What You Think Alexa Looks Like2019
Garlic Trust2019Garlic Trust is a web-based interactive sculpture and trading game developed with Shu Lea Cheang for Garlic = Rich Air. Modeled on the Trust Game, it brings a speculative world to life: over 2,000 players navigate cheating, collusion, and cooperation online, culminating in an in-person exchange of harvested garlic on Rockaway Beach.
Decodelia2016
Partisan Thesaurus2017
Recursynonym2016-2026
FAILURE<>COLLAPSE<>YIELD<>CATALYZE2022
Disassembler Roundtable2019
Mischief Ouijai2017
Cloud9.garden2020
Sky View2017
Generative Tarot2020
Small Data Squad2017
Browser Surprise2016
Pepto Bismuth2012
First Screen Names2015
15,000 Volts2011
Cybernetic Choreographies2017
Cybernetics Conference
Digital Love Languages2020–
Cybernetics of Sex2018–
Sex Ed2022
MDE Studio2024, 2025
Code Societies: Cybernetic Sculpture2025
Code Societies2018, 2019, 2020
Hex House2022–Hex House is an expansive, artist-run warehouse space in East Williamsburg dedicated to experimentation, collaboration, celebration, and ceremony.

Melanie Hoff