Kristy H.A. Kang

Kristy H.A. Kang

Kristy H.A.

Kang

2016/2017/2018, 2021 - 2023

Arizona State University, United States

Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering, Arizona State University

KRISTY H.A. KANG is an Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering at Arizona State University. Previously, she was Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, during which she served as Co Investigator of CLIMATE CRISIS AND CULTURAL LOSS (2021–22). Her work navigates the triangulation of place,
geographies, and cultural memory. Kang participated in TBA21–Academy’s inaugural The Current fellowship programme, travelling to Fiji and the Lau Island Group with expedition leader Prof Ute Meta Bauer in 2017, and took part in the resulting exhibition THE OCEANIC (2017/18) and accompanying conference THE CONVENING #3: TABU/TAPU — WHO OWNS THE OCEAN? (2018) at
NTU CCA Singapore. Her research interests combine urban and ethnic studies, mapping, and emerging media arts to visualise cultural histories of cities and communities. Her works have been presented at the Gwangju Design Biennale; NTU CCA Singapore; the Getty Research Institute; the Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; and the Jewish Museum, Berlin, among others, and received the
Jury Award for New Forms at the Sundance Online Festival. Her publications include “We Are Here: City Signs and Maps in Ethnic Placemaking” co-authored with Annette M. Kim for the Journal of the American Planning Association
(2022), “‘City Stories’: Digital Placemaking and Public History in Singapore” in the Routledge Companion to Media and the City (2022), and “Interfaces and Intentionalities: Adjacent Practices of Urban Media Art in Singapore,” published in a special issue on Urban Interfaces in Leonardo Electronic Almana (2019). She received her doctorate in media arts and practice at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California.