• Visual and Digital Culture
• Speculative Fiction
• Animal Geography
• Mutlispecies Urbanism (River and Waterway)
• Critical Theory (Queer, Poscolonial, and Southern Theory)

I am an interdisciplinary researcher working on environmental media. My research revolves around the futuristic forms of human-technology-nature relationships in visual and other sensory media, questioning the role of media materiality in affording certain ways to conceive ourselves and our relations to the worlds, in the digital times and an era of global climate change.

Drawing from environmental media, new materialism, and STS, my disserttion project examines how ecological imaginaries of the Borneo rainforests are produced and adapted through the media materials, which are used to channel out the ecological ideas and feelings. Water, animal, science fiction novels, archival materials, films, and new media installations inform my research in braiding the grids of sensations. With multi-species and postcolonial approaches, I challenge the connotation of media and address the mediated features of the ecological speculations - so as to open up alternative ways to envision vital human-nature relationships for the futures and to travel across multiverses other than the extant and historical power structures. Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of “nomad” (1986) is critical to my work.

In my previous master’s project, I examined the socio-technical imaginaries of human-robot intimacy popularised in Japan. From a post-humanist and new materialist approach, I analyzed the queerness of the mechanical species through the discussion on the ontologies of robot subjectivity. My thesis The Mechanical Heart: Speculative Human-Robot Intimacy in Japan can be found in the library of the University of Amsterdam.

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