May Ee Wong, PhD
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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…
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2023 Helsinki Biennale: “New Directions May Emerge” and Ecological Thinking Seminar blog entries
The “Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data” project that I am part of, is one of the ‘curatorial intelligences’ in the 2023 Helsinki Biennale (as ‘Critical Environmental Data’), alongside the Museum of Impossible Forms, TBA21-Academy, ViCCA@Aalto Arts and an A.I. entity. Titled New Directions May Emerge, the Biennale is curated by Joasia Krysa and it…
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“Visualising ‘Asia as Future’ through speculative Southeast Asian Aesthetic Urban Futures” on ARIScope
Following from the ARI Roundtable on Speculative Southeast Asian Aesthetic Urban Futures held on the 31st of May 2022, I discuss Southeast Asian speculative fiction and art as critical and ethnographic counterpoints to the plethora of technological and financial urban futures promoted in Southeast Asia here in this piece, Visualising ‘Asia as Future’ through speculative…
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ARI Roundtable with Jason Wee and Tita Salina on Speculative Southeast Asian Aesthetic Urban Futures (31st May 2022, 4 – 5.15pm SGT)
Under the Asia Research Institute Asian Urbanisms cluster, I am organising a conversation between Singapore artist/writer Jason Wee and Indonesia artist Tita Salina, two artists based in two different Southeast Asian cities and whose work engages with the notion of ‘Asia as Future’. The artists will be invited to introduce their works and discuss their…
May Ee Wong, PhD. Researcher and writer 