🧳Expert Talk | The Cultural Economy of Nostalgia from the Perspective of Ecologies of Artistic Practice

with Prof. Ashley Lee Wong (黃詠欣)

How can digital technology be used to revisit the past, as well as to pursue innovation? This talk proposes a framework in which digital methods help us recover, question, and recontextualise historical materials, memories, and experiences. This approach differs from reading digital practice only through digital art or technological progress.

Join Prof. Ashley Lee Wong for a conversation on nostalgia, cultural economies, and artistic practice in the age of technology. Participating artists Ubac Studio, Jang Gayoun, and Foreseen Agency will take part in the discussion.

📅 Monday, 26 October 2026
🕔 5:00–6:30pm (HK) / 6:00–7:30pm (KST)
🗣️ Conducted in English (no interpretation)
👥 Moderators: Wong Ka Ying and Kang Min-hyung

Speaker

Ashley Lee Wong, PhD is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Associate Director of the MA Cultural Management programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of MetaObjects, a studio that works with artists and cultural institutions on digital projects. In 2024, she co-initiated the interdisciplinary research project Ecologies of Participation. She is also managing editor of Technophany, Journal for Philosophy and Technology.

Her research connects theory and practice and examines contemporary cultural economies for artists working between art and technology. Her work has appeared in Leonardo, Artnodes, DATA browser, Screened Bodies, and Visual Cultural Studies Journal. She is the author of Ecologies of Artistic Practice: Rethinking Cultural Economies through Art and Technology (The MIT Press, 2025).