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, where she was a Geballe Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and also ran the Graphic Narrative Project. She's also taught in Visual & Critical Studies at California College of the Arts and was lead curator with CODAME Art & Tech. She has curated exhibitions and public programs at venues including SFMOMA, the Beall Center for Art + Technology, and Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Science Magazine, and On the Media, and her writing has appeared in Slate, Wired, Noema, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other venues. Her first book, The Body Digital: A Brief History of Humans and Machines, from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT, was published in November 2025. She grew up in Singapore and Australia and is now based in San Francisco.