I research and write about contemporary Chinese art and visual culture with one project on the relationships between artists and urbanization of Beijing from 1978-2012 and another one on luxury car cultures of Greater China.
Based on dissertation research, my monograph project Obsolescing Futures, establishes the influence of urban planning and changes to Chinese art by drawing parallels between artistic practices, representations of the capital’s infrastructure, and alternative ways of seeing the city created by artists and filmmakers based in Beijing. In my second book-length project: Sino-Automobilities I examine how luxury car culture in the Sinophone world — Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and transpacific diasporic Chinese communities in Canada — functions as media, projecting information, protocols, and ways of communicating between drivers, passengers, and pedestrians.
See my cv for my peer reviewed articles and curatorial projects.
As the Faculty Programming Development Officer at The Centre for Research Innovation & Support (CRIS) I create and foster cohort-based research programming like the Faculty Writing Accelerator and the Drawing across the Disciplines so researchers can flourish at the University of Toronto.
Prior to joining CRIS I was the Senior Research Associate for Collaborative Digital Research Space (CDRS) at the University of Toronto, Mississauga where I launched and maintained the CDRS co-writing program, the CDRS Spotlight on Research series, and the art-in-residence program. With the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) launched the UX Design for DH Accelerator Program providing design thinking, rapid prototyping and community responsive design for emerging DH projects.
I’ve held postdoctoral fellowships at Media@McGill at McGill University (2017-18), and at the University of Toronto as the CLIR/JHI postdoctoral fellow in Digital Humanities (DH) at the Jackman Humanities Institute.
My DH projects include using Augmented Reality (AR) to enable restaging Chinese performance works from the 1990s using GIS locational data, archival photographs, and online exhibition software.