Ashley Lee Wong 黃詠欣

Art & Technology | Research | Practice

Ashley Lee Wong, PhD, is a researcher and cultural practitioner who has worked internationally in the cultural sector in Hong Kong and the UK. She is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Associate Director of the MA Cultural Management programme. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director, MetaObjects, a studio that facilitates digital projects with artists and cultural institutions. She is manager of the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology and Technophany journal. Her research bridges theory and practice to ways of thinking and engaging in contemporary cultural economies for artists and practitioners working at the intersections of art and technology. She is working on a monograph to be published by The MIT Press in Spring 2025.

Contact: ashley@metaobjects.org

Education

2021 PhD in Creative Media, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
2009 MA Culture Industry, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2006 BFA Computation Arts (Digital Image/Sound and the Fine Arts), Concordia University, Montreal

Teaching

MA Cultural Management, Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Cultural Development and Policy
Special Topics in Cultural Management: Digital Curation and Aesthetics
Museums and Archives

BA Cultural Management, Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

New Media Art Management

BA General Education, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University

Creative Entrepreneurship

MA Creative Media, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

The Art Market: Transaction, Activism, Analysis.

Publications

Monograph

Ecologies of Artistic Practice: Rethinking Cultural Economies through Art and Technology, The MIT Press, Spring 2025.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Wong, Ashley. “Beyond Ownership: Sustaining Art as Cultural Processes”, DATA browser series, Curating Technologies, Vol. 10, 2024.

Wong, Ashley. “NFTs and Digital Collectibles: Creating Systems of Ownership for Digital Objects”, Visual Cultural Studies Journal, Mimesis, 2022.

Wong, Ashley. “Cyclic Existence, Iteration and Digital Transcendence: Lu Yang’s Live Motion Capture Performances”, Screened Bodies, The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology, Iss.7.1. 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/screen.2022.070108.

Wong, Ashley. “Artists as Enterprise: Incorporating as Forms of Organising Agencies”, In PARSE Journal, Iss 9, Spring 2019, University of Gothenburg.

Wong, Ashley. “Confronting The Market: Media Art’s Venture into the Art Market”, In Art with (or without) the art market. Marges #28, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, Université Paris 8. Spring issue, 2019.

Wong, Ashley. “Artists In The Creative Economy: Inoperative Modes of Resistance”, In: Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox (eds), APRJA, 2018. Vol. 7, Issue 1, Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University, School of Communication and Culture.

Wong, Ashley. “Work In The Creative Economy: Living Contradictions Between the Market and Creative Collaboration”, In: Gandini A. & Graham J, Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries. 2017. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book4.k.

Curated Exhibitions:

Lu Yang’s Screen Bodies, China in the World Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 2022, co-curated with Ari Heinrich and Gabriel Remy-Handfield.

Open Systems Salon, Art Machines: International Symposium for Computational Art, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, 2019.

Selected Projects (MetaObjects):

Lu Yang - DOKU: The Binary World, networked live motion capture performance, Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural District and Sydney Opera House, 2022.

Sonic Topologies: Hong Kong, Multi-sensory interactive installation, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, 2021.

The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine: Experiment AI-TNB, AI web project, Liverpool Biennial, 2021.

Ensembl with Samson Young and Prof. Massimiliano Mollona, Blockchain prototype, DAOWO Initiative, Goethe-Institut London, Furtherfield/DECAL and Serpentine Galleries, 2021.

Fashion Asia: 10 Asian Designers to Watch, Virtual exhibition, Hong Kong Design Centre, 2020.

Wong Kit Yi: Magic Wands, Batons and DNA Splicers, bio lab, a.m. Space, Art Basel Hong Kong, 2018.

For more projects see: metaobjects.org