Ashley Lee Wong 黃詠欣

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

2023-present Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Associate Director, MA Cultural Management programme (2024-25)

2017-present Co-Founder and Artistic Director, MetaObjects, a studio facilitating digital production with artists and cultural institutions

2021-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Cosmotechnics/Critical AI research project led by Prof. Dr. Yuk Hui

2021-present Manager, Research Network for Philosophy and Technology and Managing Editor, Technophany Journal

2021 Part-time Lecturer, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Course: Cultural Development and Policy)

2021 Part-time Lecturer, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (Course: The Art Market: Transaction, Activism, Analysis)

2021 Part-time Lecturer, The Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University (Course: Creative Entrepreneurship)

2012-2017 Head of Programmes & Operations, Sedition, an online platform for
distributing digital limited editions, London, UK

MA Cultural Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Cultural Development and Policy (Core course)
• Special Topics in Cultural Management: Digital Curation and Aesthetics
• Museum and Archives Studies
• Contemporary Arts and Cultural Interactivity
• Graduate Research Paper / Project

BA Cultural Management, 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.

Monograph

Wong, Ashley L. Ecologies of Artistic Practice: Rethinking Cultural Economies through Art and Technology, The MIT Press, Spring 2025. (forthcoming)

Journal Articles

Wong, Ashley L. “Speculative pragmatism and ecological approaches in creative studio practices in art and technology,” Artnodes, No. 35., 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7238/artnodes.v0i35.429207.

Ikeshiro, Ryo and Ashley L. Wong. “Sonic Topologies: Hong Kong – A Multisensory Interactive Installation at M+, Museum of Visual Culture,” Leonardo. (forthcoming 2025)

Wong, Ashley L. “Beyond Ownership: Sustaining Art as Cultural Processes,” DATA browser, Curating Technologies, Vol. 10, 2025. (forthcoming 2025)

Wong, Ashley L. “NFTs and Digital Collectibles: Creating Systems of Ownership for Digital Objects,” Visual Culture Studies Journal, Vol. 3-4, 2022. ISSN: 27242307. https://vcsmimesis.org/s/Visual-culture-studies-3-4_estratto.pdf.

Wong, Ashley L. “Cyclic Existence, Iteration and Digital Transcendence: Lu Yang’s Live Motion Capture Performances,” Screened Bodies, The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology, Vol.7. Iss.1., 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/screen.2022.070108.

Wong, Ashley L. “Artists as Enterprise: Incorporating as Forms of Organising Agencies,” PARSE Journal, Iss 9, Spring 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.70733/wyrignv93mbj.

Wong, Ashley L. “Confronting The Market: Media Art’s Venture into the Art Market,” Art with (or without) the art market. Marges, No. 28, Spring 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/marges.1845.

Wong, Ashley L. “Artists In The Creative Economy: Inoperative Modes of Resistance,” Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox (eds.), APRJA, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v7i1.116059.

Book Chapters

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

Co-PI, Interdisciplinary Research Project, “Practice-as-Research: Producing Knowledge Through Participatory Creative Practice,” Research Institute for the Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Part of the Ecologies of Participation initiative in collaboration with Yim Sui Fong, Melody Hoi-Lam Yiu and Frank Vigneron, HK$150,000, 01/09/2024-31/12/2025.

PI, Direct Grant, “A Response to Hong Kong’s Arts Tech Policy:
Shifting the Narrative on Art and Technology to Reconsider Cultural Development,” Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK$100,000, 01/06/2024-31/05/2025.

PI, Funding Scheme for Promoting Innovative Technology in Education (FITE),
“Building Digital Literacy in the Arts and Humanities,” University Grants Committee (UGC), Hong Kong, HK$150,000, 1/02/2024-30/06/2026.

Awards

2023 “Lu Yang's DOKU: The Binary World”, Outstanding Small Venue Production (Nominated), Hong Kong Dance Awards 2023.

2018 Research Tuition Scholarship, Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies, City University of Hong Kong

2017-2020 Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPSF), Research Grants Council, Hong Kong

2017 Entrance Scholarship, Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies, City University of Hong Kong

2017 Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Research Degree Students, City University of Hong Kong

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

Open Systems Salon, Art Machines: International Symposium for Computational Art, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, 2019, co-curated with Dr. Mariana Perez Bobadilla.

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 with Prof. Ryo Ikeshiro, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, 2021.

The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine: Experiment AI-TNB, AI web project with Prof. Joasia Krysa, Prof. Leonardo Impett, Dr. Eva Cetinić, Liverpool Biennial, 2021.

Ensembl with Prof. 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 with Dr. Yun Wah Lam, a.m. Space, Art Basel Hong Kong, 2018.

For more projects see: metaobjects.org