Blog | Angela YT Chan

2024

Archive Writing for INTERPRT

I have been working with the team at INTERPRT – a research agency that pursues environmental justice through spatial and visual investigations – to create an archive of their extensive projects and activities, working also with their web designer towards the new website. (October 9, 2024 → present)

October 9, 2024

working with
Weathered Radio: Soundscaping at Mosaic Rooms

For common /play grounds led by yasamin and sass, I delivered a soundscape making and listening workshop (adapted and inspired by our forestscapes project). Participants speculatively engaged with changing political and natural climates.

September 30, 2024

workshop digital media / tech
The Trajectory of Speculative Futures panel with Lian Connect

For Imaginarium: A Debut Festival Celebrating ESEA Speculative Fiction and Authors, I spoke about power, politics and SF alongside my co-panellists Dr. Danbee Kim (neuroscientist and author of The First VIRS), Neon Yang (biologist, journalist, and author of The Tensorate series), and P.H. Low (poet and author of These Deathless Shores).

September 22, 2024

talk science fiction
Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 by Eelyn Lee exhibited at Bloc Projects, Sheffield

I co-created and performed a mythical character The Navigator for Eelyn Lee's year-long collaborative project that 'newly constellates diasporic identity and becoming' for East and Southeast Asians in the UK. The exhibition includes Eelyn's film and the costumes we co-designed with Christine Ting-Huan 挺歡 Urquhart during character development. (September 19, 2024 → October 14, 2024)

September 19, 2024

exhibited in collaboration performance
More Than AI Sandbox Showcase at Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed

To culminate my mentorship as a 'Sandbox Advisor' to project groups A (Re)imitation of Life and Glory Mold, I moderated a panel with Dan Coppen & Domenica Landin and Mel Francis and Leonie Rae Gasson to explore their prototyping journey with non-human intelligences, speculative worldbuilding and technology.

September 19, 2024

talk mentoring critical friend digital media / tech
Writing published in The Place Bureau's Natural Futures Report: Storytelling Interconnectedness: Digital Storymapping

My writing on Storytelling Interconnectedness [my workshop series on speculative climate fictions and digital maps] is now published in The Place Bureau's Natural Futures Report that explores human spaces and the natural world. Storytelling Interconnectedness situates climate stories in the real and imaginary: what does it mean to upload speculative fictions as mapped data points? How can we geolocate the uncertainties we feel about our changing environments over time?

September 5, 2024

writing / publication digital media / tech Storytelling Interconnectedness
Speculative Storytelling Workshop for Retelling as Method with Kindred Packet

I held a speculative story mapping workshops for David Kam's (Kindred Packet) workshop Retelling as Method, which touched on heritage, personal experiences and place.

September 2, 2024

workshop
Making forestscapes - recomposing sound and video for collective inquiry into forests as living cultural landscapes

We held a forestscapes soundscaping workshop to STS researchers at EASST-4S 2024 in Amsterdam

July 16, 2024

workshop conference / symposium forestscapes digital media / tech
Sandbox Advisor Mentoring for the More Than AI Sandbox

I mentored as a 'Sandbox Advisor' to the project groups 'a (re)imitation of life' and 'Glory Mold' through explore their three month R&D, the More Than AI Sandbox, with Pervasive Media Studio. The groups' prototyping journeys explored non-human intelligences, speculative worldbuilding and technology. (July 1, 2024 → September 19, 2024)

July 1, 2024

mentoring critical friend digital media / tech
Intro to Climate History and Playing with Media Overwhelm Talk for ITP Camp at NYU New York City

I gave an artist talk at ITP Camp to fellow campers that introduced the history of climate change. Through some project examples, I described some digtial media methods I use in my own practice, as well as in collaborative projects like climate investigations and with the forestscapes project, which uses audio and visual media collaging with Supercollider and Sam Lavigne's videogrep tool.

June 25, 2024

talk digital media / tech Critiquing a 'Sustainable Military'
Hopeful Futures Visioning Workshops: Deliberative Tools for Citizens and Policy

I was invited to work as the Guest Artist for Hopeful Futures - a project between KCL, Policy Institute, London Councils and residents from London Boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Tower Hamlets. Through partner information sessions, and the workshops I delivered, the programme tests deliberative and creative methods to imagine what a London well-adapted to extreme temperatures could look like by 2050 and inform local policymaking. (June 18, 2024 → October 26, 2024)

June 18, 2024

workshop collaboration policy
ITP Camp at NYU New York City

I joined ITP Camp for June 2024! Not quite a residency but a long period of peer learning based at the ITP/IMA programme facilities at the NYU Jay Street campus. After moving away from 7 months working as a data engineer, I was happy to be in a creative space experimenting with different technologies, playing with a mix of soft- and hardwares with intro sessions to media forms across audio, visual and tactile, like e-textiles. Each day was marked with faculty and peer-led workshops, often giving tasters into a digtial tool or method, which Campers used towards general learning or a project. Towards the end of the month I spent some extra time on digital embroidery and showed my small piece at the Show ALL Things Show. (June 3, 2024 → June 27, 2024)

June 3, 2024

workshop participation residency exhibited in digital media / tech
Turning up the Heat: Diaspora food cultures and climate change co-research project

I developed a summer programme for KCL students consisting of online and in-person workshops at the Science Gallery to unpack and explore some ideas on food, supply chains and climate change for the global diaspora. (May 20, 2024 → October 31, 2024)

May 20, 2024

workshop university guest artist project
Visiting Lecturer: Final Project Superivision (games and media studies) for MA Global Media Management at WSA, University of Southampton

I supervised twelve students on the MA Global Media Management across media theory. Projects covered video game studies through themes of gender, social media, and racial justice. (May 5, 2024 → October 1, 2024)

May 5, 2024

teaching games digital media / tech
'The Art(s) of Science: Grace L. Dillon and Angela YT Chan on Speculative co-futures, conversation published in Revisions: Vol 1 for re:arc institute'

My conversation with renowned science fiction scholar and author Grace L. Dillon is now published in Revisions: Vol 1 by re:arc institute. Grace 'is best known for coining the term Indigenous Futurism, which is a movement consisting of art, literature and other forms of media which express Indigenous perspectives of the past, present and future in the context of science fiction and related sub-genres.' We talked about power, narratives, collaborations and much more.

April 27, 2024

interview writing / publication science fiction
Climate Justice: Artistic and Educational Responses at FACT Liverpool with Liverpool Hope University

I presented 'Climate Justice through history, technologies and play', describing my various arts projects on climate justice with young people, from youth groups to university curricular and extra-curricular teaching, then joined the panel discussion with Hwa Young Jung, Dr Robert Booth and Steven Shakespeare.

April 24, 2024

talk
RCA Environment Symposium: workshop and panel

During a day of activities for Royal College of Art London students across practice disciplines to engage with ideas for green futures within the institution, I delivered a workshop on climate arts methods and joined an afternoon panel talk where I spoke about the languages for greenwashing in the technology sector.

April 16, 2024

workshop talk conference / symposium
Mentoring the Ecological Health in Neighbourhoods Retreat with Centric Lab and CIVIC SQUARE at the Center for Alternative Technology, Wales

I was a mentor for a weekend retreat that culminated Ecological Health's 9 month peer-to-peer learning journey for people interested in addressing systemic challenges by creating neighbourhoods that are life-sustaining and provide people and Nature with health, dignity, and justice. I gave a workshop and offered the informal drop-in sessions for participants to discuss with me their ideas relating to creative climate justice. (March 22, 2024 → March 24, 2024)

March 22, 2024

mentoring workshop
Micro Mapping Diagrams Illustration for Chris Fite-Wassilak's Microbial Writing

I was invited to respond to the question 'what is microbial writing?', and created an illustrated mind map/diagram to explore the themes and offer further prompts to think with.

February 1, 2024

writing / publication
AI and the Arts: Who’s Responsible? Conference

I was offered a bursary to attend the UKRI BRAID Creative Community Engagement conference for curators to engage with AI research in their practices, organisations and institutions.

January 19, 2024

conference / symposium digital media / tech

Archive Writing for INTERPRT

Weathered Radio: Soundscaping at Mosaic Rooms

The Trajectory of Speculative Futures panel with Lian Connect

Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 by Eelyn Lee exhibited at Bloc Projects, Sheffield

More Than AI Sandbox Showcase at Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed

Writing published in The Place Bureau's Natural Futures Report: Storytelling Interconnectedness: Digital Storymapping

Speculative Storytelling Workshop for Retelling as Method with Kindred Packet

Making forestscapes - recomposing sound and video for collective inquiry into forests as living cultural landscapes

Sandbox Advisor Mentoring for the More Than AI Sandbox

Intro to Climate History and Playing with Media Overwhelm Talk for ITP Camp at NYU New York City

Hopeful Futures Visioning Workshops: Deliberative Tools for Citizens and Policy

ITP Camp at NYU New York City

Turning up the Heat: Diaspora food cultures and climate change co-research project

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

'The Art(s) of Science: Grace L. Dillon and Angela YT Chan on Speculative co-futures, conversation published in Revisions: Vol 1 for re:arc institute'

Climate Justice: Artistic and Educational Responses at FACT Liverpool with Liverpool Hope University

RCA Environment Symposium: workshop and panel

Mentoring the Ecological Health in Neighbourhoods Retreat with Centric Lab and CIVIC SQUARE at the Center for Alternative Technology, Wales

Micro Mapping Diagrams Illustration for Chris Fite-Wassilak's Microbial Writing

AI and the Arts: Who’s Responsible? Conference