Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher and artist investigating climate change narratives through colonial history, data, technology, and justice.
Her activities often include interdisciplinary collaborations in journalism, policy, academia and activism, merging artistic and digital research methods. Angela’s ongoing project ‘Critiquing a ‘Sustainable Military” explores how public narratives are shaped around environmental security and conflict technologies, within the unfolding history of climate colonialism. She has held numerous residencies, including Arts Catalyst, FACT/Jerwood, Sonic Acts, Primary, Abandon Normal Devices, HGCRC (Archaeology, University of York), Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics, and Tactical Tech.
Angela has produced curatorial projects and workshops, collaborating with artists, activists and youth groups (formerly under the name Worm: art + ecology, 2014-2020). She co-directs the London Science Fiction Research Community. As an educator she has taught climate colonialism, environmental and social art, games and speculative fiction, and mentors artists working on digital media technologies.
Angela is also a research consultant, having worked on climate projects for major cultural institutions and in international climate and cultural policy at Julie’s Bicycle. She currently works with INTERPRT – a research agency that pursues environmental justice through spatial and visual investigations – and Arena for Journalism in Europe.