Vanessa Chang builds communities and conversations about art, technology, people, and planet. As Director of Programs at Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, she develops transdisciplinary programs connecting artists, scientists, and technologists.
She has curated exhibitions and public programs at SFMOMA, the Beall Center for Art + Technology, and Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, and was lead curator with CODAME Art & Tech. Her writing has appeared in Slate, Wired, Noema, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and her work has been featured in Art in America, Science Magazine, and On the Media, among other venues. Her first book, The Body Digital: A Brief History of Humans and Machines from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT, was published in 2025.
She earned a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, where she was a Geballe Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and ran the Graphic Narrative Project. She's also taught in Visual and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. Raised in Singapore and Australia, she is now based in San Francisco.