Angela YT Chan
Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher and artist investigating contemporary climate change narratives in relation to colonial history, technology, and justice. Her work explores how the unfolding timeline of climate change is framed in the public discourse, with current focuses around green militarism and low-tech collective practices against extractivism. Angela’s activities merge artistic and digital research methods to create multimedia and participatory works, which draw on critical data and infrastructure studies, STS, human geography, and the history of climate change and social movements.
She often collaborates interdisciplinarily across journalism, policy, academia and activism (recently Public Data Lab, Green Screen Coalition, and Arena for Journalism in Europe). Highlight residencies include Arts Catalyst, FACT/Jerwood, Sonic Acts, Primary, Abandon Normal Devices, Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre, and Tactical Tech. Initially establishing herself as an independent curator (under the name Worm: art + ecology, 2014-2020), she received Arts Council England’s DYCP Award for artistic research in 2019.
Angela has previously worked as a data engineer, as well as a researcher for international climate and cultural policy (Julie’s Bicycle, UNCOP26) and advocacy groups (INTERPRT). Inspired by environmental history and law, she is currently in training as a feng shui practitioner.
With CIIP at Winchester School of Art and University of Southampton, Angela is the Senior Researcher in Artistic Research for SOUNDSCALE, which focuses on citizen-centric research and development of the emerging technology Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS). She leads on developing artistic methods to critically investigate dark fibre’s infrastructural history, environmental and ethical issues, and what constitutes collective digital justice. Her artist residency contributes to SOUNDSCALE’s interdisciplinary approaches for responsible technology research.