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Ecologies of Artistic Practice

Rethinking Cultural Economies through Art and Technology

Part of Leonardo

Author Ashley Lee Wong
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$50.00 US
The MIT Press
On sale May 27, 2025 | 224 Pages | 9780262552165
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An in-depth look at how we make and circulate art today, and how creative and economic processes shape the meaning and value of artworks.


In Ecologies of Artistic Practice, Ashley Lee Wong explores the economic relationships of artists working at the nexus of art and technology as they negotiate a means to make art in a neoliberal creative economy. Wong looks at the diverse ways in which artworks circulate, both online and offline, in galleries, on digital platforms, and media facades, and investigates some of the mechanisms that enable artists to create works, including selling artworks and NFTs, grants, licensing, commissions, and artist residencies. The book also looks at the ways in which artists collaborate with corporations and develop practices as commercial entities themselves.

The book provides unique insights into the diverse creative and economic processes that shape the meaning and value of artworks. Wong seeks to shift away from notions of individual authorship and finite artworks that can be bought and sold, and instead toward an understanding of artistic practices as collaborative, social, and cultural processes.Rather than critique this economy, Ecologies of Artistic Practice opens space for engaging in hypercommercialized contexts, while considering how money is not an end goal, but a means to initiate or continue an artistic process.
Ashley Lee Wong is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of MetaObjects, a studio facilitating digital production with artists and cultural institutions.
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An in-depth look at how we make and circulate art today, and how creative and economic processes shape the meaning and value of artworks.


In Ecologies of Artistic Practice, Ashley Lee Wong explores the economic relationships of artists working at the nexus of art and technology as they negotiate a means to make art in a neoliberal creative economy. Wong looks at the diverse ways in which artworks circulate, both online and offline, in galleries, on digital platforms, and media facades, and investigates some of the mechanisms that enable artists to create works, including selling artworks and NFTs, grants, licensing, commissions, and artist residencies. The book also looks at the ways in which artists collaborate with corporations and develop practices as commercial entities themselves.

The book provides unique insights into the diverse creative and economic processes that shape the meaning and value of artworks. Wong seeks to shift away from notions of individual authorship and finite artworks that can be bought and sold, and instead toward an understanding of artistic practices as collaborative, social, and cultural processes.Rather than critique this economy, Ecologies of Artistic Practice opens space for engaging in hypercommercialized contexts, while considering how money is not an end goal, but a means to initiate or continue an artistic process.

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Ashley Lee Wong is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of MetaObjects, a studio facilitating digital production with artists and cultural institutions.
Ashley Lee Wong View titles by Ashley Lee Wong

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