Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Wendy_Hui_Kyong_Chun@brown.edu
Department of Modern Culture and Media
Brown University
tel: (401) 863-2382
fax: (401) 863-2158

Education

• Ph.D., Department of English, Princeton University, 1999
• Certificate, School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, 1995
• M.A., Department of English, Princeton University, 1994
• B.A.Sc., Systems Design Engineering and English, first class honours, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1992

Professional Appointments

• Associate Professor, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, July 2005 -.
  • Affiliated Faculty, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, July 2005-.
  • Faculty Associate, Watson Institute for International Studies, July 2006-.
  • Member, Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies, July 2006-.
• Visiting Scholar / Visiting Associate Professor, History of Science Department, Harvard University, Sept 2006-December 2006; January 2007-June 2007.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, September 1999-June 2005.
• Lecturer, Department of English and the Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University, July 1996-June 1997, February 1998-December 1999

Books and Edited Books:

• Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2006).
  • significantly revised version of Chapter Three to be reprinted as "Race and/as Software" in Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America. Eds. Thuy Linh Tu and Mimi Nguyen. (Duke UP, 2007).
  • abridged version of Chapter Two to be reprinted as "Screening Pornography" in Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States. Ed. Peggy Shaffer (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
  • Reviewed in: Theory & Event, The Information Society, Leonardo, Resource Center for Cyberstudies, Prefix Photo, Neural.it, Communications Booknotes Quarterly, InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, and Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
  • Selected as the Resource Center for Cyberstudies Book of the Month, February 2008.
• Ed. New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (New York: Routledge, 2005), with Thomas Keenan.
• Reviewed in: Lähikuva
  

Articles:

• “The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future is a Memory.” Critical Inquiry (forthcoming 2008).
• "Imagined Networks: Race, Digital Media and the University" Traces: A Multilingual Series of Translation and Cultural Theory (forthcoming).
• "Digital Media, History of" International Encyclopedia of Communication (Blackwell, 2008).
• "Programmability."Software Studies. Ed. Matthew Fuller (MIT Press, 2008).
• “Programmed Visions,” Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular  3:1 (2007).
• "Control and Freedom: Software and Causal Pleasure / Controle et liberte: logiciel et plaisir causal"Art Oriented Programming / Programmation Orientee Art. in French and English. Ed. David-Olivier Lartigaud (HYX Editions, forthcoming 2007).
• "On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge" Grey Room 18 (winter 2005): 26-51.
• "Did Someone Say New Media?" New Media, Old Media. (New York: Routledge, 2005), 1-10.
• Control and Freedom: On Interactivity as a Software Effect." 2004 Proceedings of the International Society of Electronic Arts.
• "Human-Mediated-Communications." Reality/Simulacra/Artificial: Ontologies of Postmodernity. Ed. Enrique Larreta. in English and Portuguese (Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Candido Mendes, 2003).
• "Orienting Orientalism, or How to Map Cyberspace." Asian American.net, eds. Rachel Lee and Sau-ling Wong (Routledge 2003), 3-36.
• "Othering Space" Visual Culture Reader 2.0. ed. Nick Mirzeoff (Routledge, 2003), 241-254.
• "Scenes of Empowerment: Virtual Racial Diversity and Digital Divides" (New Formations special issue on "Race and/or Nation" 45, winter 2001): 169-188.
• "Unbearable Witness:  Towards a Politics of Listening." differences:  a journal of feminist cultural studies (11.1 Spring 1999): 112-149. A revised and abridged version reprinted in Extremities. Ed. Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw (Urbana: Illinois UP 2002), 143-165. An early draft published as "A Case of Mistake[s i]n Identity: Bearing Witness to the Montreal Massacre." Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture 9.2 (1995): 117-140.

Book Reviews:

• Review of The Will to Technology & the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche, & Marx. By Arthur Kroker. University of Toronto Quarterly (December 2005).
• Review of Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography and "Mail Order" Marriage. By Nicole Constable. Journal of Asian American Studies 6:3 (October 2003): 321-326.

In Progress:

• Programmed Visions: Software, DNA, Race. (in progress, forthcoming MIT 2009).
• "The Politics of Nets."CONNECTED: translocal agency, action and affect. Eds. Sally Jane Norman and Sher Doruff.
• Imagined Networks (book project / international conference).
• Race as Technology, special issue of Camera Obscura to be edited with Lynne Joyrich.
• "Code as Media" 
  

Invited Lectures/Papers/Responses:

• “Cyworld versus Facebook,” The Republic of Bloggers, The Korea Society, New York (April 2008).
  
• “Capturing Code,” artefact: festival for art and new media, STUK arts center, Leuven, Belgium (February 2008); Codework, NSF workshop, University of West Virginia (April 2008).
• “Basic Insecurity, Virtual Citizenship.” Virtual Citizenship Symposium, Wayne State University (also simulcast on Second Life, November 2007).
  
•  “Renewing New Media.” A series of three evening lectures delivered at the Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina (October 2007).
  
• “Open Source Imagined Networks.” keynote.  CODE: The New Agora, University of Toronto (April 2007).
  
• “On Memory and Media,” Sixth Annual Festival of the Image, Manizales, Colombia (April 2007).
  
• “Daemonic Media,” Interfaces and Visualizations: A State-of-the-Art Conference on the Humanities in Post-human Times, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (April 2007); a longer version delivered at Codes and Safety Workshop, Lancaster University, United Kingdom (November 2007).
  
• “Imagined Networks.” keynote. Cosmopolitanism: Thinking Beyond the Nation, 32nd Annual FSU Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee (February 2007); New Network Theory, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (June 2007); keynote. Creative Industries Conference, City of Berlin, Germany (September, 2007); World-Making, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (April 2008).
  
• “Imagining Networks, Realtime.” Sensor, Census, Censor: Investigating Circuits of Information, Registering Changes of State, Sarai, New Delhi, India (November 2006); Disappearance of Latitude: Live Presence and Real-Time in Contemporary Practices, OPENPORT and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (February 2007).
  
• “The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future is a Memory.” UC Berkeley (November 2006); The Future of Critique in Science and Technology, lecture series to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pembroke Center, Brown University (April 2007).
  
• “Imagined Networks: Race, Digital Media and the University.” The University in Translation: Globalizing Knowledge Work, symposium to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell, Ithaca (September 2006).
  
• “Programmed Visions: On the Emergence of Computer and Biological Code-Scripts,” D+M Lecture Series, Rhode Island School of Design (May 2006);Free Range Intellectuals Series, ACE UC Irvine (May 2006).
• "Memory and Realtime." E-fest 2006, Providence (March 2006); to be delivered at Openport (February 2007)
• "Programmability," Software Studies Workshop, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (February 2006).
• "Intrusive Reason, or Fiber Optics and the Limits of Rationality" Hyperpolis: Age of Reason 2.0, Integrated Digital Media Institute at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn (May 2005) and Cyberdiscplinarities, Leslie Humanities Center, Dartmouth College (May 2005)
• "Control and Freedom: Race, Paranoia and Power in the Age of Fiber Optics." Cultural Studies Speaker Series, Indiana University at Bloomington (April 2005).
• "Programmed Visions, or What is Software?" Franklin Humanities Center, Duke University (March 2005); Northwestern University (January 2005).
• "Control and Freedom: On Interactivity as a Software Effect." keynote address, International Society for Electronic Arts, Helsinki, Finland (August 2004); transmediale 5.0, Berlin, Germany (February 2005).
• "Freedom and Control, or the Internet as Publicity." Public Culture Symposium, Miami University of Ohio (March 2004).
• "Race and Digital Imaging." Only Skin Deep Symposium, Columbia University (February 2004).
• "On the Persistence of Visual Knowledge." Division on Literary Criticism Panel, Modern Languages Association Annual Conference, San Diego (December 2003).
• "On Utopia and Technology." Response to Fredric Jameson's "Utopia and Actually Existing Being" (October 2003).
• "Race, Technology, Paranoia." Colorlines, Harvard University (September 2003).
• "Control and Freedom, or Sexuality in the Age of Fiber Optics." Fellows Talk Series, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (April 2003).
• "Race and Technology, or the Simulation of Visual Knowledge." Ecology/Technology/Cybernetics Seminar, Harvard University Humanities Center (November 2002); Department of Communications Lecture Series, Concordia University (March 2003).
• "Software Art." School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (September 2002); Oboro Art Gallery, Montreal (March 2003).
• "Race, Paranoia, Terror." Digital Terror, Cornell University (September 2002); plenary session, Race in Digital Space, USC-MIT (October 2002).
• Respondent, Final Roundtable, TACT Symposium, Brown University (June 2002).
• "Human-Mediated-Communications, or How Technology Writes Us Sideways." Keynote address. Writing it Over under sideways down: Continuing Creative Conversations in Language, Literature, and Linguistics, Northern Arizona University (March 2002); Reading Literacies, Humanities Center at Harvard University (April 2002); simultaneously translated into Portuguese, Spanish, French "REALITY/SIMULACRA/ARTIFICIAL. ONTOLOGIES OF POSTMODERNITY," UNESCO, Rio de Janeiro (May 2002); plenary address, Technotopias: Texts, Identities, and Technological Cultures, University of Strathclyde (July 2002).
• "Race/Technology/Dystopia." Popular Cultures Division, Modern Languages Association, New Orleans (December 2001).
• "The Limits of Visual Culture" Voyages of Discovery, Brown University (October 2001), Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, University of Minnesota (November 2001); Rhode Island College (December 2001).
• "Scenes of Empowerment: Virtual Diversity and Digital Divides." Humanities Graduate Colloquium, New York University (March, 2001); UC Irvine (March 20001); UC Riverside (January 2001); UC Santa Cruz (January 2001); UC Santa Barbara (January 2001); University of Alberta (December 2001); Visual Culture Colloquium, Cornell University (November 2000)
• "Race/Technology/Utopia." Technology and Utopia , SUNY Stony Brook (February, 2001).
• "Orienting Orientalism, or How to Map Cyberspace." Matters of Representation: Feminism, Theory and the Arts Conference, University of Buffalo (March-April 2000)
• "First Contact." Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, Chicago (December 1999)
• "Virtuality as Ideology: Using Race to Interpellate Users?."  Virtual Y2k, Brown University (November 1999)
• "The Limits of Thinking Theory." University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (January, 1999).
• "High-Tech Orientalism." University of Central Florida, Dartmouth College, the University of Waterloo, Brown University and the University of Toronto (January-February, 1999).  Also delivered at Department of EnglishÌs "Works in Progress Series," Princeton University (December 1998)
• "Technology, Graduate Students and the Future of the Professoriate."  CAUSE/CNI (May 1997)
• "The Extropians: Sex in the Age of Fiber Optics," Stages of the Virtual, Rutgers-Princeton (April 1995).

Conference Papers:

• Respondent, “Color Coding” panel. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia (March 2008).
• “Memory, or the Enduring Ephemeral,” Re:place The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology, Berlin Germany (November 2007).
  
• “Daemon Media” and “Imagined Networks.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago (March 2007)
  
• "Loving Robots," Console-ing Passions International Conference, Milwaukee (May 2007).
• "Code as Media," Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver (March 2006); to be delivered at Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Annual Conference (November 2007); to be delivered at the Modern Languages Association Annual Conference (December 2007).
• "Retro Coco," Performance Studies International, Providence (April 2005)
• Orienting Orientalism." Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, San Francisco (May 2003).
• Respondent, "Techno-Orientalism."  Association for Asian American Studies, Philadelphia (March 1999)
• Respondent, "Science, Fiction, and Cyberculture." American Studies Association, Washington D.C. (October 1997)
• "Enabling Graduate Students." American Association for Higher Education, Washington D.C. (February 1997)
• "Press '1' for Asian American or '2' for Postcolonial; Or, Making the Critical Difference," American Studies Association, Kansas City (October 1996)
• "Bodily Contact: Neocolonialism as Prostitution?" Culture and Colonialism, Galway, Ireland (June 1995).
• "'Don't Call Me a Feminist': Women, Generations, Engineering and the 1989 Montreal Massacre," Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston (April 1995).
• "The New in the World in the 'New in the World': Hooke's Micrographia as a Travel Narrative," Society for Literature and Science, Boston (November 1993).

Fellowships/Honors/Grants

• Co-PI (PI: Tara McPherson; co-PIs: Brian Goldfarb, Nicholas Mirzeoff, and Joan Saab), Planning Grant for “Transforming Visual Culture Project,” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (December 2007-).
• Fellow, Vectors Summer Fellowship Program, July 2006.
• Short Term Travel to Collections Award, Lemelson Center at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute, July-August 2005.
• Scholarly Technology Group Faculty Grant, Brown University, 2004-5.
• Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, 2002-2003.
• Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship, Brown University, 2002 (deferred to Spring 2004).
• Vice President of Research Faculty Fund Grant, Brown University, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
• Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Outstanding Mentor Book/Research Award, 2002.
• Dean of the Faculty, Faculty Research Award, 2002.
• Wayland Collegium for Liberal Learning Course Grant (to bring in a Wayland Fellow), Brown University, Spring 2002, Fall 2004.
• Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, 1995-1997
• Presidential Fellowship, Princeton University, 1992-1996
• Association of Princeton Alumni Teaching Award, 1995-1996
• Summer Research Awards from the Wintersteen and Taylor Funds, Princeton University (1995)
• Korean Businessmen's Association Scholarship, 1989, 1992
• University of Waterloo Senate Commendation for Excellence, 1992
• Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Undergraduate Industry Scholarship, Spring 1990

Work Experience

Teaching

• MC11: Introduction to Modern Culture and Media, Fall 2004, Fall 2001, Fall 2000, Fall 1999.
• MC23: Digital Media, Fall 2005, Spring 2008.
• MC33: Introduction to Digital Media, Fall 2004 (recipient of a Brown University TRE grant).
• MC90: Global Cyberpunk, Fall 2001.
• MC90: Representing the Internet, Spring 2001.
• MC90: Media/Networks, Fall 2003.
• MC120: Publicity and Surveillance, Fall 2003.
• MC120: Imagined Networks, Fall 2007.
  
• MC150: Rhetoric of New Media, Spring 2001, Spring 2000.
• MC150: Publicity and Surveillance, Spring 2006. Spring 2002, Spring 2000.
• MC150: Archaeology of Multi-Media, Spring 2002.
• MC150: Race and Visual Knowledge,Spring 2005.
• MC150: Race and/as Spectacle, Spring 2006.
• MC150: Race as Archive, Fall 2007 (History of Science 155, Spring 2007, Harvard)
• MC150: Information, Discourse, Networks, Spring 2005.
• MC212: Media Archaeology, Fall 2005.
• MC212: New Media Theory, Spring 2008.
  

• Consultant, The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning
• PLACE Program Co-ordinator (WebFactory Programmer and Co-ordinator, New Tools for Teaching and Research October 1997 to June 1998)
• Web Designer and Co-ordinator, Princeton University Assistants in Instruction
• Web Master (various sites, including all the preceding course webpages)
• HTML Instructor, New Tools for Teaching and Research, Princeton University, June 1996
• Web Design Consultant, Firestone Library Reserves Department, Online Reserve Request, June-August 1996
• Technical Consultant, Beyond Illustration, 1994-1995

• Northern Telecom Canada, Junior Network Engineer, Summer 1991
• Gandalf Data, Network Hardware Design Team, Spring 1990
• IBM Canada, Systems Design Engineering, Spring 1988, Fall 1988, Summer 1989

DEPARTMENT:

• Undergraduate Honors Director, September 2005-June 2006, September 2007-.
• Member, Graduate Committe, September 2007-.
• Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Fall 2007.
  
• Elected Member, Forbes Committee, September 2004-August 2005.
• Member, Undergraduate Committee, September 2004-.
• Chair, Festival/Conference Planning Committee, September 2004-June 2005.
• Member, Digital Media Production Hiring Committee, May 2004-June 2005.
• Chair, Digital Planning Committee, September 2003-May 2004.
• Member, Graduate Student Admissions Committee, 2003-4. 2005-6.
• Chair, Committee on Digital Media, September 2000 Ð May 2002.
• Member, Film Production Search Committee, November 1999-January 2001.
• Departmental Computer Consultant, September 1999 Ð December 2000.

UNIVERSITY:

• Member, Academic Priorities Committee, Spring 2008.
• Member, Cogut Center for the Humanities Governing Board, Spring 2006
• Organizer, "Human Rights and Media Interventions Lecture Series," Spring 2006.
• Organizer, "Critical Interventions in Digital Media Lecture Series," 2004-2006.
• Elected Member (Humanities Representative), University Resources Committee, March 2004-January 2006.
• Mentor, ALANA (African, Latino, Asian, and Native American) Mentoring Program, September 2005-May 2006.
  
• Sheridan Center Representative, Department of Modern Culture and Media, September 2004-August 2005.
• Organizer, “Critical Interventions in New Media Lecture Series,” Sept 2004-April 2006.
• Co-organizer (with James Der Derian), The Power and Pathologies of Networks Symposium, Brown University, March 2004-September 2005.
• Moderator and Respondent, "Infowar, Cyberwar and the War of Dis/simulation" TACT symposium, Watson Center, June 2002.
• "Human-Mediated Communications," Faculty Luncheon, Wayland Collegium for Liberal Learning, April 2002.
• Panelist, Voyages of Discovery for President Ruth SimmonÕs Inauguration, October 2001.
• Member, Brown University Ad hoc Committee for a Center in Digital Arts and Media, May 2000-October 2001.
• Mentor, Mellon Undergraduate Minority Fellowship, 2000-2002.
• Mentor, UTRA Undergraduate Fellowships, 2000, 2002.
• Member, Brown University Search Committee for a Director for the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, April 2000-January 2001.
• Moderator, "Cyberspace and Communications," Alumni Leadership Weekend, September 2000.
• Organizer, Archaeology of Multi-Media Conference, Brown University, October 1999-November 2000.

PROFESSION:

• Dissertation External Reviewer, York University (2008).
• Fellowship Reviewer, American Academy in Berlin, Fall 2007.
  
• Advisory Board, Asiascape.net, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Fall 2007-.
  
• Editorial Board, Transformative Works and Cultures, Fall 2007-.
  
• Moderator, “Transvergence,” InterSociety for Electronic Arts 2006 Symposium, May 2006-August 2006.
  
• Member, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2007 Conference Program Committee, 2006-.
• Panelist, Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship, 2005-6.
• Member, International Program Committe for InterSociety for Electronic Arts 2006 Symposium, 2005-2006.
• Editorial Board, greyroom, December 2005-.
• Reviewer, Routledge, June 2005-.
• Editorial Board, Postmodern Culture, May 2004-.
• Editorial Board, Journal of E-Media,
• May 2004-. Reviewer, MIT Press, May 2004-.
• Reviewer, Television and New Media, 2003-.
• Nominator, Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship, 2002-04.
• Advisory Board, InfoTechWarPeace, 2002-.
• Reviewer, differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, 2001-.
• Technical Advisor, The New Age Project, October 2000-.
• Member, Modern Languages Association Handbook Revision Committee, New York, 1998.
• Reviewer, Computers in the Humanities, 1997.

COMMUNITY

• Outside Expert, MacArther Foundatation Initiative on Digital Media and Learning, October 2006.
• Coordinator, AS220Labs, Fall 2005-Spring 2006.
• Adjudicator, Korea Times (Toronto), Korean-Canadian Short Story Competition, 1999.

• Professor Diana Fuss, Department of English, Princeton University
• Professor Thomas Keenan, Department of Comparative Literature and Director of the Human Rights Project, Bard College.
• Professor Mary Ann Doane, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University. .