Zoénie Liwen DengConcept & Project Developer

Zoénie Liwen Deng curates and writes about art-science events and exhibitions at Waag. Her research interests include critical art with the digital, ethical ways to relate to and matter with more-than-human including machines, planetary imaginaries, feminist and decolonial praxis-theories in arts-science-technology. She graduated with PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2020, and her doctoral research focused on non-oppositional criticality of socially engaged art. 

She has worked on Horizon Europe projects such as Artsformation (arts in making digital transformation more just and fairer), and Creative Europe projects such as More-than-Planet (arts-science-technology in making concern and care-driven planetary imaginaries).

She taught at Cultural Diversity programme of Social Practice at Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam) in 2021, and she worked as coordinator of Civic Practice at BAK basis voor actuele kunst (Utrecht) in 2022.