Forthcoming:
- Haunted House in the Age of AI, co-written with Anthony Enns (Professor of Contemporary Culture, Dalhousie), under contract with the Gothic Elements series, Cambridge University Press
Published works:
My latest chapter reflecting on the coloniality of visual technologies, between the camera and motion capture:
“Performing Telepresence: Technology and Coloniality in Choy Ka Fai’s Postcolonial Spirits (2021)”, Chapter for
Routledge Companion to Performance and Technology, edited by Maaike Bleeker and Nora Zuniga Shaw (2026)
Download chapter here.
An orientation on mining as digital labour, through a visual analysis of artworks on copper, tin, and lithium extraction: That is where, as you heard, the elephant danced the malinga.The place where they now grow flowers (2016), by Sammy Baloji, and Future Flora: Manono (2019), Maarten Vanden Eynde.
“Mining for Digital Culture: Dispossessed lives through the lens of art” (2026), Chapter for The SAGE Handbook for Digital Labour, edited by Ergin Bulut, Julie Yujie Chen, Rafael Grohmann and Kylie Jarrett
Download chapter here.
An ethnographic photo essay on e-waste in Hong Kong, for Museum Ostwall’s latest exhibition on waste, curated by Christina Danick and Michael Griff:
“Ungovernable Waste: From Colonial Temporalities of Violence to Repair”
Waste: A Reader on the Global Pathways of Waste (2026), published by Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U, Spector Books, in German and English.
Workshop: Bridging Knowledges between Computer Science and the Humanities
Wan, E., de Groot, A., Klumbyte, G., Lücking, P., Lämmerhirt, D., Păun, M., & Jameson, S. (2020). “Lost in translation: an interactive workshop mapping interdisciplinary translations for epistemic justice.”
In Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT* ’20), January 27–30, 2020, Barcelona, Spain (pp. 692). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3375685
Orientation and reflections on the workshop here, here, and here.
Other peer-reviewed chapters and articles
- Wan, Evelyn (2024). Cultural Genitals and the Emancipated Fembot: Performing Gender, Race, and Technology in Cyborg Theatre. In Sean Metzger & Roberta Mock (eds.), The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre. London: Bloomsbury.
- Wan, Evelyn (2023). The Left-hand Click and the Left-hand Lay: Intersecting Technology and Folk Belief in Posthuman Spirituality. In Grant Hamilton & Carolyn Lau (eds.), Mapping the Posthuman. New York: Routledge.
- Wan, Evelyn (2021). “I’m like a wise little person”: Notes on the metal performance of woebot the mental health chatbot. Theatre Journal, 73(3), E21-E30. https://doi.org/10.1353/TJ.2021.0068
- Wan, Evelyn (2021). Laboring in Electronic and Digital Waste Infrastructures: Colonial Temporalities of Violence in Asia. International Journal of Communication, 15, 2631-2651.
- Wan, Evelyn (2019). Labour, mining, dispossession: on the performance of earth and the necropolitics of digital culture. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Special Issue on Reterritorializing Digital Performance from South to North, 15(3).
- Wan, Evelyn (2019). Docile Subjects: From theatres of automata to the machinery of 21st-century media. In Peter Eckersall & Helen Grehan (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics. New York: Routledge.
- Wan, Evelyn (2015). From Her (2013) to Viv the Global Brain: Becoming Material, Unfolding Experience through Radical Empiricism and Process Philosophy. Digital Culture & Society, 1(1), pp. 165-185.
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