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 has worked internationally as a curator and creative producer and is Co-Founder and Artistic Director, 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 as manager of the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology and Technophany journal. She is initiator of 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 consider ways of thinking and engaging in contemporary cultural economies for artists and practitioners working at the intersections of art and technology. Her work has published in academic journals including, DATA browser, Curating Technologies, 2025, Screened Bodies, The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology, Visual Cultural Studies Journal, 2022, PARSE Journal, University of Gothenburg, 2019, APRJA, Aarhus University, 2018, and Marges, Université Paris 8, 2019; and a book chapter in Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries, University of Westminster Press, 2017. 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