Join us for the PROTO Masterclasses, as part of the PROTO creative development programme for artists in the North. Taking place in February and March 2025, the PROTO Masterclasses are a series of expert-led online sessions designed to provide UK artists based in the North with a unique opportunity to engage with and learn from a diverse range of international artists, cultural leaders, and creative professionals.

PROTO Masterclass: Climate history and technology

Angela YT Chan’s investigative art practice focuses on how climate change narratives relate to colonial histories, technologies and justice. This talk will explore what it means to her to shape resistive counternarratives using creative digital tools and interdisciplinary methods in her current projects, “Critiquing a ‘sustainable military’” and “A Brief History of “Climate Tech”. Angela will share her approaches to research concepts spanning geographies, timelines, and collaborations in environmental, human and digital rights.

Event details

Date: Thursday 13th March 2025

Time: 4:30 - 6:00pm

Cost: FREE

Duration: 1.5 hours

About Angela YT Chan:

Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher and artist investigating climate change narratives with colonial history, data, technology, and justice. Her projects often include interdisciplinary collaborations in policy, academia and activism.

She is a current resident with the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre (Archaeology, University of York) and AA2A, continuing her investigation “Critiquing a “Sustainable Military” and Climate Tech". Previous highlight residencies include Arts Catalyst, FACT/Jerwood, Sonic Acts, Primary, Abandon Normal Devices, and Tactical Tech.

Angela has produced curatorial projects and workshops, collaborating with artists, activists and youth groups (formerly under the name Worm: art + ecology, 2014-2020). She co-directs the London Science Fiction Research Community. As an educator she has taught climate colonialism, environmental and social art, games and speculative fiction (Goldsmiths, KCL, RCA, WSA), and mentors artists working on digital media technologies.

Angela is also a research consultant, having worked on climate projects for major cultural institutions and in international climate and cultural policy at Julie's Bicycle. She has recently worked with INTERPRT, a research agency that pursues environmental justice through spatial and visual investigations.

PROTO Masterclass: Climate history and technology