Benjamin Kidder Hodges is an artist and anthropologist originally from Richmond, Virginia. His research-based art and writing draws on folklore, mythology, and media archaeology to highlight overlooked histories and speculate possible futures. This often involves building links between material culture and affects from boredom to shock.

Hodges completed his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and has been a Fulbright grantee in Bulgaria. He has written extensively on land reclamation, island infrastructure, and atmospheres both real and imagined. He has published in the journals Folk, Knowledge, Place, WiderScreen, Shima, Mobilities, Etropic, Asia Art Archive's LIKE A FEVER and is a member of the editorial collective behind Shimaqua.

In addition to his writing and exhibitions, he has taught workshops on 3D animation and open source software in Europe, Asia, and the US. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Macau, where he teaches filmmaking, media studies, and cultural studies within the Department of Communication. 

Hodges has exhibited in SVA Gramercy Gallery, 1708 Gallery, Creative Macau, Art Macao Biennale, Artelli, AFA Macau, University of Macau Museum of Art, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, AMODA (Austin Museum of Digital Art), CURB Center for Architecture and Urbanism, and the Script Road Macao Literary Festival.