February Meetup - Melanie Hoff
The Origin of the Word: Language, Lineage, Lovers and Logins
We'll be joined by Melanie Hoff, teacher at School For Poetic Computation (SFPC), Harvard Graduate School of Design, and organizer at Hex House NYC.
This artist talk treats language as both body and interface: a lived system of sensation, classification, and access. Moving between code, performance, and participation, Melanie Hoff shares works that remake machinic language as an embodied, communal practice, from Dance Poem Revolution (poems generated through movement) to Consensual Hacking (protocols of permission and pleasure), alongside Folder Poetry, Recursynonym, and Collective Goon Cave. Together these projects ask how language systems do not just describe the world; they help produce it—granting lineage, mapping possibility, and regulating agency. The talk considers ways to rewrite the languages that write us.