Resonance Speaker Series (online)
Celine Wong Katzman

The Resonance Speaker Series is excited to present independent curator and Co-Director of School for Poetic Computation (New York), Celine Wong Katzman.

Katzman will be joined by New Media + Sound Art Professor, Peter Bussigel, and Libby Leshgold Gallery Director/Curator, Vanessa Kwan.

Celine Wong Katzman is an independent curator based in New York and Singapore. Her work considers theoretical and practical strategies to hack institutions towards more just futures. She works closely with artists to unravel and transform structures such as exhibitions, classrooms, books, and websites. Celine is Co-Director at School for Poetic Computation, an experimental school for art, code, hardware, and critical theory grounded in solidarity across social differences and empowerment through technical and political education.

Previously, Celine was Curator at Rhizome, an affiliate of the New Museum. During her tenure, she oversaw accessions to the archive; organized exhibitions including the first major U.S. museum presentation of the landmark project, CyberPowWow; produced public programs; and published texts highlighting diverse forms of practice and communities towards an equitable historical accounting of digital art and culture. In 2021-2023 she was Mentor-In-Residence at NEW INC, the New Museum's incubator, where she facilitated the year-long residency program, Art & Code.

Celine is a 2024 Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship recipient, a 2023 Teiger Foundation curatorial grant awardee, and a 2019 NYSCA Curatorial Fellow at the Queens Museum. Her writing appears in publications such as The Nation and Art in America, as well as in The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics, Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts, On NFTs, and in other books. She holds a B.A. in Visual Art with honors from Brown University, where she has presented her work in addition to Vassar College, the School of Visual Arts, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and elsewhere in the U.S. and internationally.

Resonance is a series of artist talks co-organized by the Photo and New Media + Sound Arts programs at Emily Carr University. This talk is also presented on the occasion of the exhibition, Generation that Generates: as above / so below, currently on view at the Libby Leshgold Gallery through November 10th, 2024.