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Melanie Hoff

Sex Ed: A Pleasure and Queer Centered Study in Epistemic Empowerment, 2025Dance Poem Revolution, 2023–2026Melt, 2026Consensual Hacking, 2020–2026Recursynonym, 2016-2026Sex is the World Our Desires Produce, 2025The Origin of the Word: Language, Lineage, Lovers and Logins, 2026CAKEHOLE, 2023Collective G00n Cave, 2024
Work

Dance Poem Revolution2023–2026

A game about poetry and revolution inspired by the popular rhythm game Dance Dance Revolution.

Melt2026

An anonymous chatroom for poetry workshops, where people meet through language before identity.

Consensual Hacking2020–2026

A zine and participatory performance workshop that explores consent, shared risk, and intimacy through the possibility of hacking into one another’s computers.

Recursynonym2016-2026

A word becomes its synonym becomes its synonym.

Sex is the World Our Desires Produce2025

A performance exploring how desire materializes worlds through language, technology, sound, breath, and the reproductive labor of friendship.

Little Red Riding Hood2025

A performance reimagining an older, oral Little Red Riding Hood, in which one body plays both the girl and the wolf.

CAKEHOLE2023

A 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 Programming2020

An essay arguing that everyone who uses a computer has, in important ways, always already been programming it.

HEXNYE2024

Community Roleplay2025

Collective G00n Cave2024

A 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

The Dress2023

Draw What You Think Alexa Looks Like2019

Garlic Trust2019

Garlic 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

Birth Conditions Federal Credit Union2021

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

Teaching

Digital Love Languages2020–

Cybernetics of Sex2018–

Sex Ed2022

Harvard MDE Studio2024, 2025

Code Societies: Cybernetic Sculpture2025

Code Societies2018, 2019, 2020

The School for Poetic Computation's intensive on technology as social and the social as political technology, which I led from 2018 to 2020.

Organizations

Hex House2022–

Hex House is an expansive, artist-run warehouse space in East Williamsburg dedicated to experimentation, collaboration, celebration, and ceremony, which I co-founded and have co-directed since 2022.

School for Poetic Computation2021–2024

An artist-run school in New York exploring code, design, hardware, and theory, which I co-directed from 2021 to 2024.

Cybernetics Library2017

An artist-run browsing library and practice collective exploring cybernetic thought through reading groups, installations, and events, which I co-founded in 2017.

Press
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