WENDY HUI KYONG CHUN (4 – 7 October, 2017)

Brown University, USA

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun  is a theorist of digital media and Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.[1][2] Her approach to digital media combines and mutates her training in both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature.

She is the author of a trilogy that includes Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (MIT Press, 2016), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT Press, 2011), and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press, 2006).

Her research spans the fields of new media, software studies, comparative media studies, critical race studies, and critical theory.

More information at: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/wchun