May Ee Wong, PhD
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At Utrecht University
I am starting a new position as Assistant Professor in Urban Mobile Media at Utrecht University in the Media and Culture Studies department. I am looking forward to teaching and working with colleagues on topics on urban interfaces and performance as well as on environmental media and humanities. You can reach me there at m.e.wong@uu.nl.
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“Horoskop” on Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft
For those who read German, here’s a fun piece of climate horoscopes that I had the pleasure of working on with Lukas Diestel, Maximilian Hepach, Giacomo Marinsalta, Sybille Neumeyer, Jonas Parnow and Birgit Schneider. It’s published in the German media journal, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, and based on the interactive app, Climate Fortunes, that we created…
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“Ecocritique between Landscape and Data: The Environmental Audiotour” on Electronic Book Review
An article out on Electronic Book Review based on our Helsinki Biennale 2023 Environmental Audiotour and the film “Saaret” by Paolo Patelli (Jussi Parikka also keynoted on this for ELO2023)
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Extractive Pasts, Sustainable Futures? Research Studio (March 11-15 2024, TU Dresden)
TU Dresden’s Chair of Digital Cultures along with the Chair of Micro-Sociology and Techno-Social Interaction and Department for Speculative Transformation hosted a research studio focused on the energy transition in Lusatia, Germany, recently. This research studio preceded the German STS conference Leakage. I was a participant in the first four days of the research studio…
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“Building (With) Nature” talk by Michaela Büsse at Aarhus University, 4th April 2024, 2pm
I am excited that Michaela Büsse is coming over to Aarhus University to give a talk on her research and film on the Dutch coastal project the Zandmotor. This talk is hosted by the Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data Project and cosponsored by the Center for Environmental Humanities and the Environmental Media and Aesthetics…
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Presenting at the Centre for Science Studies Colloquium, Aarhus University, 7th February 2024
I will be giving a talk based on my research so far on the energiø/’energy island’ at Aarhus University’s Centre for Science Studies Colloquium. The talk is called “Terrains of Environmental Speculation: The ‘Energy Island’ as Model of Transitional Futures.” I will be demonstratively describing the energy island as an environmental media apparatus and as…
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Presenting at the ‘Creating Impact with Data Journalism’ symposium, 19th January 2024
I will be presenting on behalf of the “Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data” (DAfED) project that I belong to at the Creating Impact with Data Journalism: Pathways to Civic Communication and Engagement symposium, happening on the Aarhus University campus and online. I will be sharing on the group’s critical approach to ‘environmental data’ and our…
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“Islands of STS: Refiguring Environmental Futures” 4S Honolulu 2023 Open Panel
Kim De Wolff and I are co-organizing this open panel for this year’s 4S annual meeting at Honolulu. The panel description is here on the conference website and below. Please consider submitting an abstract if you are interested. In STS-Island scholarship, the ‘island’ is the foundational site of technoscientific knowledge regimes and the spatial imaginary…