Conferences and Publications
June 2026
Paper Presentation, Data Justice 2026: The Datafied State, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (funded by Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada)
June 2026
Invited Speaker, Art, Data, and Story: The Role of ADT-Assisted and Arts-Based Approaches in Shaping Migration Narratives, Diversity Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University, partnership with The University of Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford, United Kingdom (funded by Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada)
May 2026
Invited Speaker, Bridging Divides Conference, Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Apr 2026
Invited Speaker, 2026 CMS Migration & Integration Conference, Centre for Migration Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Dec 2025
Book Chapter, Humanizing Technologies: A Survival Toolkit Navigating the Artificial Intelligence Era in Migration Studies, Yearbook of Moving Images 2024, Büchner-Verlag (open access, peer-reviewed)
October 2025
Presentation, AI for All, RAISE x Amazon Fall Exposition, Seattle, United States, October 3, 2025
July 2025
Conference Proceedings, Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network Conference 2025, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, July 1-3, 2025.
May 2025
Presentation, CMS Research Conference 2025, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, May 1-2, 2025.
Annie Wan
Associate Professor/ Principal Investigator/ AI Engineer and MR Developer
Ronnie Cheng
Research Assistant
Bowen He
MR Developer
Marcus Hobkirk
MR Developer
Lauren Naidoo
Logo Design
I may use one of the Cantonese pop songs (張國榮梅艷芳嘅緣份) that we used in this project (in the process of obtaining right to use) to summarize our feelings, as migrants, in this project,
每段美好的片段 腦海一再閃現 是否能證實曾與他有緣 你我相隔多麼遠 那年那天可相見 那處境可會改變
Every cherished moment flickers through my mind; Could it be a sign, a fate with them designed? Vast and wide we’re apart, in years and miles unseen— Shall that day, that place, ever change the way it’s been?
We sincerely thank all the interviewees for co-designing the MR stories with us. Thank you.