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Yani Kong

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Education:

PhD, Contemporary Art, SFU
MA, Theory, Culture and Politics, Trent University
BA, Art and Culture Studies, SFU

Bio

Yani Kong is a writer, editor, and scholar of contemporary art. Her writing appears in publications across Canada and internationally. Their research areas are reception aesthetics, contemporary art history, digital ecology and eco-aesthetics. As a member of the Low Carbon Research Methods Working Group and director of the Small File Media festival, they explore sustainable practices in streaming media.

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Research Interests

Yani’s research interests include reception aesthetics, contemporary art history, digital ecology and eco-aesthetics.

24/25 Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Art History AHIS 336 26/SP

Description

This special topics course examines a specific historical movement (e.g. the Renaissance, the Rococo, the Baroque) through its impact on the production of contemporary art and visual culture. Taking a thematic approach the course will address questions of genre, style and influence within an art historical, socio-political and cultural context. Students will be invited to consider how and under what conditions, the ideas, beliefs and practices that have shaped an art historical movement continue to reverberate in the present historical moment. The course provides students with a greater understanding of the movement taken as special topic focus and an increased awareness of its continuation and/or re-emergence in contemporary practices.

Each section of this course covers a different topic. See here.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Social Science SOCS 302 26/SP

Description

This course offers the opportunity to critically engage with defined topics in the social sciences as they relate to ethics of representation by introducing methods and practices for building community relationships, cultural diversity and social activism. Specific historical, cultural and social contexts will be explored using approaches such as ethnography, documentary, social justice studies, critical disability studies, and environmental studies to broadly address ethics of representation in art, media and design practice.

This course is subject to priority rules; see here.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Social Science SOCS 302 26/SP

Description

This course offers the opportunity to critically engage with defined topics in the social sciences as they relate to ethics of representation by introducing methods and practices for building community relationships, cultural diversity and social activism. Specific historical, cultural and social contexts will be explored using approaches such as ethnography, documentary, social justice studies, critical disability studies, and environmental studies to broadly address ethics of representation in art, media and design practice.

This course is subject to priority rules; see here.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.