Vanessa Chang builds communities and conversations about art, technology, people, and planet. She is Director of Programs at Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology. She earned a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She's also taught in Visual & Critical Studies at California College of the Arts and was lead curator with CODAME Art & Tech. She has appeared on NPR’s On the Media and State of the Art and her curatorial work has been profiled in such venues as Art in America and KQED Arts. Her writing has been published in Wired, Slate, Noema, Los Angeles Review of Books, Journal of Visual Culture, among other publications. Her first book, The Body Digital: A Brief History of Humans and Machines, from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT, was published in November 2025.

Leia S. Chang (they/them) is an artist, organizer, and creative technologist exploring unusual materiality and embodied identity. With a strong command over creative fabrication, Leia channels their perspective as a second-generation Chinese-American into interactive installations, poetic texts, and tangible multi-media objects made of wood, resin, and found materials. Their work often integrates digital media into physical forms with the aim of spotlighting the connection between memory, identity, and storytelling. Leia is currently an exhibit developer at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Their work has been shown at the likes of La Mama’s CultureHub, theBlanc Art Space, the Gray Area SF and Resistor NYC. They organize creative communities and facilitate workshops on making-as-art.