Hui Wong (he/they) is a Communication Studies McGill student under the co-supervision of Bobby Benedicto and Darin Barney. His MA project thinks about public art with bioecological themes in Singapore through the lens of recent theoretical work in environmental media. Deploying methods from postcolonial and psychoanalytic traditions, he aims not only to think about the stakes of public art, but also to critique theory that claims ostensibly global approaches to the environment. His broader research interests include environmental/elemental media, German media theory, art and literature from Singapore, postcolonial studies, and Georges Bataille.  

He holds a Bachelor's in Media Studies (and a minor in English Literature) from the University of British Columbia. He completed an undergraduate research project on art exhibitions and environmental media with Dr. Richard Cavell and was a Media and Politics Network Cultures assistant under Dr. Kavita Philip. 

Publications

Wong, Hui. “Postcolonial Ecologies in Cyberspace: On ‘Anti-Environments’ in Singapore Art Week 2022’s Somewhere in Bedok and Peripheral Spaces.” Communication and Cultural/Critical Studies. (Forthcoming) 

Activity 

I am affiliated with the Sex in Theory working group at McGill.