Fidelia Lam

FIDELIA LAM // 林安慈 is an artist, scholar, and facilitator whose research and teaching engages digital and computational media together with critical theory and embodied interaction to surface obfuscated narratives embedded in urban media environments, landscapes, and systems. Through site-specific research, participatory media-making workshops, and transmedia research-creation including custom software and media systems, their work queries and cultivates possibilities of shared public spaces and facilitates invitations to collectively shape and re-write our sociotechnical imaginaries in the face of multiple ongoing global crises. Their research draws on areas of Asian/American and diaspora studies, queer and feminist science and technology studies, feminist new materialism + affect studies, and media, data, and infrastructure studies in relation to contemporary cultural productions.

They have exhibited and presented work at Human Resources Los Angeles, Geidai Games Online at Tokyo University of the Arts, *Architecture, Media, Politics, Society* (London), TongLau Space (Hong Kong), American Studies Association (Montreal), ISEA (Barcelona), *Arts for the Society of the Present* (Los Angeles), Flow34 @ International Association for Media and Communication Research (Nairobi), among other venues. They hold a PhD in Cinematic Arts, Media Arts + Practice from the University of Southern California, and an MA in Media Arts, Performing Arts Technology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. They are currently Assistant Professor, Critical Computational Media in the department of Digital Futures at OCAD University in Tkaronto, Canada, and a Visiting Scholar at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto.