Blog | Angela YT Chan

2026

Data Justice Conference 2026: The Datafied State at Cardiff University

My presentation as SOUNDSCALE's Research Fellow is titled 'An Investigative Arts approach to emerging technology research as neighbours in research: the case of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS)'

June 1, 2026

conference
6 Months at the Chinese Language Division, National Taiwan University

As a Huayu Enrichment Scholarship recipient, I studied an intensive Mandarin programme at the Chinese Language Division, National Taiwan University

May 31, 2026

award

2025

Your Practice as a Garden: Lecture and Workshop on Professional Art Practice for BA Fine Art Undergraduates at University of Reading

I delivered a lecture to third year BA Fine Art students about developing a professional art practice, followed by a workshop to design their own artist-led workshops

October 28, 2025

teaching
Guest Lecture for MA Digital Media at WSA

I delivered a lecture introducing environmental issues relating to digital media infrastructures, titled 'Computing infrastructures: Climate Justice Through Digital Media'

October 22, 2025

teaching
Talk Participation for Atmospheric Forces Performance at Radar, LU Arts

Discussing climate, geology, and atmospheres with geoscientist Dr Josh Wolstenholme, we will respond to artists Sue Palmer and Sheila Ghelani's performance and research.

October 9, 2025

talk
Presentation of 'Critiquing a ‘Sustainable Military’' at the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference

I will present on some of my activities as Artist in Residence at Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre, Department of Archaeology, University of York.

August 29, 2025

talk conference / symposium
Senior Research Assistant in Artistic Research (Artist in Residence) for SOUNDSCALE at the University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art and CIIP

I have now joined the interdisciplinary team to approach the citizen-centric, responsible research and development of the emerging technology of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS).

July 14, 2025

working with research
Talk and Memory Locket Workshop with the Speculative Worlds Research Collective for the What is Speculation? Symposium at UCL

I will lead a locket making workshop to playfully consider research as a practice for memory making and archiving for the future. It will prompt a refocusing of research, in a time of global uncertainties and polarities, as a channel to nurture hope. I will also deliver a presentation and join a panel talk with other ambassadors to discuss the symposium's key questions on speculation and research.

July 4, 2025

workshop talk conference / symposium
Flux25: More-than-self Conference Workshop and Panel at Institute for Creative Futures 4th Annual Symposium, Loughborough University London

I led an iteration of my Weathered Radio ecological sound workshop and gave a presentation on forestscapes' methodologies with sound and my research into climate and conflict.

June 17, 2025

workshop talk conference / symposium
CIVIC SQUARE Re:Assemble Weekend at Centre for Alternative Technology

I returned as a mentor for CIVIC SQUARE's Re:Assemble, hosted at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales. The peer learning gathering aims to build our collective capacity and resilience through connection, collaboration and exchange at a time of increasing pressure and compounding crises. (June 6, 2025 → June 9, 2025)

June 6, 2025

workshop mentoring
Critical Infrastructure and Image Politics (CIIP) x Critical Media Lab, Basel

I joined colleagues from CIIP at Winchester School of Art on a collaborative research workshop with Critical Media Lab in Basel (June 3, 2025 → June 5, 2025)

June 3, 2025

research collaboration
Visiting Lecturer: Final Project Supervision (games and media studies) for MA Global Media Management at WSA, University of Southampton

I am supervising ten students on the MA Global Media Management / Digital Media programme on their Final Project dissertations at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. My supervision focuses on media studies, with students writing within game, film and social media studies, using content, textual and interface analyses. (June 1, 2025 → October 1, 2025)

June 1, 2025

teaching games digital media / tech
forestscapes Listening Lab

forestscapes exhibited a Listening Lab at the "More-than-human mappings" Livingmaps Network Conference between 24-26th April 2025 at Senate House in London.

April 24, 2025

exhibited in forestscapes digital media / tech
forestscapes Listening Lab (live)

We organised a forestscapes listening lab at Science Gallery London, as part of Pulse of the Planet on 21st March 2025 from 6.30pm.

March 21, 2025

performance forestscapes digital media / tech
Food Science Facts and Fictions

I participated in an online workshop with researchers in microbes, food health and safety and arts organised as part of Dr Paul Hurley's research at University of Southampton.

March 18, 2025

critical friend workshop participation
PROTO Masterclass: 'Climate History and Technology' for FutureEverything

My talk will explore using creative digital tools and interdisciplinary methods in my current projects, “Critiquing a ‘sustainable military’” and “A Brief History of “Climate Tech”.

March 13, 2025

talk digital media / tech
Connecting the dots: mapping global AI militarism and green extractivism

I moderated a participant subgroup for this workshop's power-mapping activities.

February 28, 2025

workshop collaboration digital media / tech conference / symposium
All great and green?! Challenging extractive digital infrastructures

I spoke on the panel 'All great and green?! Challenging extractive digital infrastructures' (on digital infrastructures: colonialism, capitalism, military industrial complex, and the climate crisis) organised with Green Web Foundation at RightsCon 2025

February 27, 2025

talk digital media / tech Critiquing a 'Sustainable Military' policy conference / symposium
Workshop and Talk on Green Militarism and the Environmental Impacts of AI

I delivered a talk and workshop on my research on green militarism ahead of RightsCon 2025.

February 25, 2025

workshop digital media / tech Critiquing a 'Sustainable Military' conference / symposium
TinyTech Futures for Tending Waste, Cultivating Life - Creative Climate ‘Night School’

Bóxī Wú and I held the second iteration of the 'TinyTech Futures' workshop for the Sunlight Liberation Network's 'Night School'.

February 19, 2025

workshop collaboration digital media / tech

Data Justice Conference 2026: The Datafied State at Cardiff University

6 Months at the Chinese Language Division, National Taiwan University

Your Practice as a Garden: Lecture and Workshop on Professional Art Practice for BA Fine Art Undergraduates at University of Reading

Guest Lecture for MA Digital Media at WSA

Talk Participation for Atmospheric Forces Performance at Radar, LU Arts

Presentation of 'Critiquing a ‘Sustainable Military’' at the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference

Senior Research Assistant in Artistic Research (Artist in Residence) for SOUNDSCALE at the University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art and CIIP

Talk and Memory Locket Workshop with the Speculative Worlds Research Collective for the What is Speculation? Symposium at UCL

Flux25: More-than-self Conference Workshop and Panel at Institute for Creative Futures 4th Annual Symposium, Loughborough University London

CIVIC SQUARE Re:Assemble Weekend at Centre for Alternative Technology

Critical Infrastructure and Image Politics (CIIP) x Critical Media Lab, Basel

Visiting Lecturer: Final Project Supervision (games and media studies) for MA Global Media Management at WSA, University of Southampton

forestscapes Listening Lab

forestscapes Listening Lab (live)

Food Science Facts and Fictions

PROTO Masterclass: 'Climate History and Technology' for FutureEverything

Connecting the dots: mapping global AI militarism and green extractivism

All great and green?! Challenging extractive digital infrastructures

Workshop and Talk on Green Militarism and the Environmental Impacts of AI

TinyTech Futures for Tending Waste, Cultivating Life - Creative Climate ‘Night School’