Spencer Chang is an internet artist and engineer stewarding and making computer forms that embody and empower human connection and creativity.

 Their interdependent practice spans open-source tools, internet environments, and computing-infused objects that offer alternative forms of digital being and invite & empower visitors to make their own technology. Their focus on communal spaces and infrastructure embodies a philosophy of solidarity by imagining, realizing, and maintaining technological patterns that nurture our capacity for taking care of our technology and each other.  Ultimately, their dream is an internet that feels like a home made for, and tended by, all of us—a patchwork of neighborhood websites, apps, and servers that enable us to play, share, and steward together.

He previously designed and built tools to democratize programming and create a healthier cyberspace for several years at Coda and Verses, and is the creator of playhtml, html garden, Gather, among other computer experiments. Their work has been featured and supported by the de Young Museum, Gray Area, CultureHub, MIT Technology Review, and Frieze.