Past Events
Events at Art Week Hong Kong 2026
LACMA Digital Leaders
Digital Art Conversation
Tuesday March 24 2026
9am-1pm * Ashley Lee Wong will speak at 12:30pm
Soho House, 1/F Hong Kong
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Art Central 2026
Thursday 26 March 2026
1:00pm
Panel Discussion: Kaitlyn Hau (Artist), Inti Guerrero (Curator/Educator), Ashley Lee Wong (Co-Founder and Artistic Director, MetaObjects)
Moderator: Zoie Yung (Curator, Art Central 2026)
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Flavoring Knowledge in Emergent Realities
Shan Wong (HK) + Jenn Leung (HK/UK)
Moderated by Ashley Lee Wong (HK)
Saturday, 28 March 2026
4:30-5:30pm
Venue: 101080 HHH, 2/F, Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan
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Book talk
Sat, 3 May 2025, 4-6pm
Current Plans, 3F, Remex Centre, 12 Heung Yip Rd, Wong Chuk Hang
Guest speakers:
Sunny Cheung, Curator, Design and Architecture at M+
Rachel Falconer, Head of Digital Arts Computing BSc and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London
In Ecologies of Artistic Practice, Ashley Lee Wong explores the economic relationships of artists working at the nexus of art and technology as they negotiate a means to make art in a neoliberal creative economy. Wong looks at the diverse ways in which artworks circulate, both online and offline, in galleries, on digital platforms, and on media facades, and investigates some of the mechanisms that enable artists to create works, including selling artworks and NFTs, grants, licensing, commissions, and artist residencies. The book also looks at the ways in which artists collaborate with corporations and develop practices as commercial entities themselves.
The book provides unique insights into the diverse creative and economic processes that shape the meaning and value of artworks. Wong seeks to shift away from notions of individual authorship and finite artworks that can be bought and sold, and instead toward an understanding of artistic practices as collaborative, social, and cultural processes. Rather than critique this economy, Ecologies of Artistic Practice opens space for engaging in hypercommercialized contexts, while considering how money is not an end goal, but a means to initiate or continue an artistic process.