View source for The Origin of the Word: Language, Lineage, Lovers and Logins - an artist talk with Melanie Hoff

{{Event
|Name=On Machinic Language - an artist talk with Melanie Hoff
|Location=H&D studio NDSM-plein 127
|Date=2026/02/07
|Time=17:00
|PeopleOrganisations=Melanie Hoff
|Type=Meetup
|Web=Yes
|Print=No
}}
Hackers & Designers is very excited to welcome artist, organizer, and technologist Melanie Hoff in Amsterdam. 

'''Join us on February 7th afternoon for a talk and hang out at our studio!'''

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 Partisan Thesaurus, Recursynonym, and Folder Poetry. Together these projects ask how machinic language systems do not just describe the world; they help produce it, granting lineage, mapping desire, and regulating legibility. The talk considers ways to rewrite the languages that write us.

* 17:00—18:30
* Price 5€ (''if you would like to join but are not able to contribute financially reach out to us'')
* You can sign up by [mailto:info@hackersanddesigners.nl?subject=%5B%20Talk%20with%20Melanie%20Hoff%20%5D&body=Hello%2C%0A%0APlease%20sign%20me%20up%20for%20the%20talk%20with%20Melanie%20wHoff%20on%20the%207th%20of%20February.%0A%0AMy%20name%3A%20%0Apreferred%20pronouns%3A%20%0AMy%20access%20needs%3A%0A%0AKind%20regards%2C sending an email using this link] and we'll send you a payment link. 'Information you share with us will be used only for communication and discarded after the event. More in our [[Privacy|Privacy text]].' 
* The session is taking place in person at [https://hackersanddesigners.nl/accessibility#Studio the Hackers & Designers Studio in NDSM]
* We can accommodate around 25 people in our physical space, so please RSVP in time.
* The session will be held in English. 
* Please indicate in the RSVP email what your access needs are so we can do our best to reduce barriers. A detailed overview of the accessibility measures we are taking in the physical and digital space we facilitate can be found [https://hackersanddesigners.nl/accessibility here]. 
* This event is volunteer run as H&D currently operates with no funding :)

[[File:MelanieCfrssaFA.png]]

Melanie Hoff is an artist, organizer, and technologist working within spaces of hacking and performance. Their work cultivates spaces of learning and collective reflection grounded in poetry and reconciliation for how we choose to live and what choices have been made for us. At the core of their practice is an interrogation of intersecting systems of classification and power and a dedication to acts of repair and reimagining. Melanie teaches about art, sex, technology, design, and social cybernetics at Harvard, NYU, and Yale. Their work has been exhibited at the New Museum, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, and elsewhere. They co-direct Hex House, an artist's space they co-founded in Brooklyn, and formerly co-directed the School for Poetic Computation where they can often be found teaching from the edges of their research and experimentation. 

https://www.melaniehoff.com/