Blog | Angela YT Chan

2024

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

2023

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

States of Hydration commissioned as a video essay for the Island to Island Symposium

Climate Justice and Creative Practices for Ecological Health in Neighbourhoods, CIVIC SQUARE

Waterscapes on Land video exhibited at 'Storm Warning: what does climate change mean for coastal communities?' at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance

ESEA Artists Futures Town Hall: Collectively imagining new landscapes for East and Southeast Asian [ESEA] artists in the UK and beyond

Narrativising Climate Change

We Live Here - Advisory Group

forestscapes Listening Lab exhibited at Seeking Connection: Living Well with Technology, King's Culture and the Digital Futures Institute

'Storytelling Interconnectedness: geolocating our climate histories and speculative stories as data in virtual and real landscapes' now in the publication Futuring Waters: A Speculative Manifesto from and for the Waters of Eleusina

Waterscapes on Land video exhibited at 'Storm Warning: what does climate change mean for coastal communities?' at the Big Screen outside Southend-on-Sea public library and Focal Point Gallery

BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) Launch Conference at BBC’s London Broadcasting House

Bow Skills Panel: Exposing the ‘Guts’ – Artistic Labour and Future Ecologies Talk

Critical Action Lab play-testing for the 'CRACT!' card game with thoughtden

Impossible Perspectives Lab Residency: Catalyst Lab #2 in Liverpool with Abandon Normal Devices, FACT and Tatton Park

Web Development for ESEA Artists Futures

Waterscapes on Land (2023) on display across Southend-on-Sea High Street for Focal Point Gallery's annual Railway Bridge Commission