Climate History and Technology

The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group is pleased to invite you to a talk by artist, curator, data engineer and research consultant Angela YT Chan whose work explores power, narrative framings and technology in the colonial and ongoing history of the climate crisis.

Angela YT Chan will introduce key themes across her practice that focuses on how climate change narratives in the public domain relate to colonial histories, technologies and justice. She will share creative digital methodologies in her critical research and interdisciplinary collaborations through highlight projects. These include “forestscapes”, a collective inquiry into forest and ecological restoration with generative arts and sound materials with Public Data Lab (KCL), and her independent research-arts practice with current projects “Critiquing a ‘sustainable military’” and “The Colonial History of Climate Tech” (supported by Tactical Tech and Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre respectively).

Bio

Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher, data engineer and artist specialising in climate change. Angela works with a variety of media and processes, such as video, illustration, writing, narrative games, workshops, sound, creative coding, and her projects often include extensive collaborations in arts, technology, policy and activism (recently Public Data Lab, The Policy Institute). Highlight residencies include Arts Catalyst, FACT/Jerwood, Sonic Acts, Primary, Abandon Normal Devices, and Tactical Tech.

Angela has produced curatorial projects and workshops, collaborating with artists, activists and youth groups (formerly under the name Worm: art + ecology, 2014-2020). She co-directs the London Science Fiction Research Community. As a university educator, she teaches climate colonialism, environmental and social justice in art practices, critical research, games and speculative fiction (Goldsmiths UoL, KCL, RCA, WSA), and mentors artists working on digital media technologies. Angela is also a research consultant, having worked in international climate and cultural policy at Julie’s Bicycle and independently on climate projects for major cultural institutions. She has recently joined INTERPRT, a research agency that pursues environmental justice through spatial and visual investigations.