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Choi Sin-yi (Emilie) is a researcher, writer, and curator based in Hong Kong, and currently a PhD candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Her work lies at the intersections of media studies, science and technology studies (STS), film and visual culture, and environmental humanities. Choi’s research critically engages with themes including oceanic and aquatic media and environments, infrastructural relations and smart imaginaries, digital culture and commons, media aesthetics and AI, media infrastructure, the history of moving image and media art, and cinephile culture and media networks in Cold War-era East Asia. Broadly, she is interested in the sociopolitical dimensions and sociotechnical imaginaries of digital media, environments and visuality.

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