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Teaching Faculty
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Prof. WONG Ashley Lee
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Creative Media), City University of Hong Kong
M.A. (Culture Industry / Cultural Studies), Goldsmiths, University of London
B.F.A (Computation Arts), Concordia University, Montreal
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Venue
KKB 215
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Phone
3943-4389
About Prof. WONG Ashley Lee
Dr. Ashley Lee Wong is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Associate Director of the MA Cultural Management programme in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of MetaObjects, a studio that facilitates digital projects with artists and cultural institutions. Prior to joining CUHK, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at City University of Hong Kong working on the Cosmotechnics/Critical AI research project and with the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology. She currently serves as managing editor Technophany. She co-initiated the collaborative research project Ecologies of Participation together with Yim Sui Fong (Fine Arts, CUHK) and Melody Hoi-Lam Yiu (Architecture, CUHK) in 2024.
Her research bridges theory and practice to explore the contemporary cultural economies of artists and practitioners working at the intersections of art and technology. Her work has published in scholarly journals including, Leonardo (2026), Screened Bodies (2022), Visual Cultural Studies (2022), and a book chapter in DATA browser 10: Curating Superintelligences (2025). She is the author of a monograph, Ecologies of Artistic Practice: Rethinking Cultural Economies through Art and Technology (The MIT Press, 2025).
Website: www.ashleyleewong.com
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- Art and Technology
- Media Art Histories
- Cultural Economies
- Digital Cultures
- Media and Cultural Studies
- Philosophy of Technology
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- PI, ECS, “Instituting Art and Tech: Inter-Asian Networks and Collaborative Practices of Digital Studios and Artist Collectives,” Research Grants Council, The University Grants Committee, Hong Kong, 2027-2029.
- 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, 2024-2027.
- 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, 2024-2026. - PI, Teaching and Learning Grant, Funding Scheme for Promoting Innovative Technology in Education (FITE), “Building Digital Literacy in the Arts and Humanities,” University Grants Committee (UGC), Hong Kong, 2024-2026.
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Monograph
- Wong, Ashley L. Ecologies of Artistic Practice: Rethinking Cultural Economies through Art and Technology, Monograph, The MIT Press, 2025.
Journal Articles- Ikeshiro, Ryo and Ashley L. Wong, “Sonic Topologies: Hong Kong: A Multisensory Interactive Installation.” Leonardo 2026.
- Wong, Ashley L. “Speculative pragmatism and ecological approaches in creative studio practices in art and technology,” Artnodes, No. 35., 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.
- 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.
- Wong, Ashley L. “Artists as Enterprise: Incorporating as Forms of Organising Agencies,” PARSE Journal, Iss 9, Spring 2019.
- 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.
- Wong, Ashley L. “Artists In The Creative Economy: Inoperative Modes of Resistance,” Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox (eds.), APRJA, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2018.
Book Chapters- Wong, Ashley L. “Beyond Ownership: Sustaining Art as Cultural Processes,” In: DATA browser 10, Curating Superintelligences: A Reader on AI and Future Curating, Edited by Joasia Krysa and Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver, Open Humanities Press, 2025.
- 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.
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Curated Exhibitions
- Curator, Critical Practices in Digital Art and Culture, 6th ANCER Conference, CUHK, 2025
- Co-curated with Ari Larissa Heinrich, Gabriel Remy-Handfield and Chin-Jie Melodie Liu, Lu Yang’s Screen Bodies, China in the World Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 2022
Selected Creative 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
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- Awardee, Young Researcher Award (2025-26), The Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Nominated, Hong Kong Dance Awards 2023, Outstanding Small Venue Production for Lu Yang – DOKU, The Binary World, Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural District and Sydney Opera House