Choi Sin-yi (Emilie) is a Hong Kong-based researcher, writer, and curator. Her endeavors encompass academic research, art criticism, and curatorial initiatives. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong, focusing on the technology and media culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South China. Her research interests lie in East Asian media and visual culture, technology studies, media archaeology and infrastructure, and documentary and moving image studies.
Her study has been selected for international conferences and symposiums, such as the Association for Asian Studies 2022 and EYE International Conference 2022. She contributed a peer-reviewed chapter in the book The 70s Bi-weekly: Autonomous Media, Social Activism and Alternative Cultural Production in 1970s Hong Kong, published by HKU Press in 2023.
Her writing has been published extensively on media platforms across Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. She has also participated in a wide range of roles, including as a board member of Videotage, a leading Hong Kong-based institution promoting and archiving video and new media art; member of the Floating Projects Collective, an independent experimental site of collaborative-individuated art practices; editor of Cinezen, a pan-Chinese film criticism online platform.
As creative outputs and social engagement stemming from her research, she has been a guest curator of Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival (including screening and exhibition at Tomorrow Maybe, Eaton HK), independent curator of Hong Kong Retrospective Documentary Film Festival: From 80s to 1997, Docuthon, Macao Experimental Cinema, and Nothing has Happened. She has been selected for the Curatorial Program for Research 2023: (RE)PRESENTATION IN THE NORDICS.
蔡倩怡是居於香港的獨立研究者與策展人，並為香港城市大學創意媒體學院的博士候選人，研究東亞的媒體及視覺文化，並對媒體考古學、媒體基建、生態媒介及紀錄片與流動影像研究感興趣。她亦是錄映太奇的董事、據點。句點的成員及映畫手民的編輯。她多年來策劃不同形式的影像項目，曾策劃《香港紀錄片回顧展：從80年代到97》專題影展、澳門實驗影展及《什麼都沒有發生》項目。她亦是跳格國際舞蹈影像節的研究團隊成員及客席策展人，以及為香港真實影像協會始創成員之一。她亦獲選為「策展研究駐留計劃：再現北歐」計劃。她亦曾任文化版記者，並持續書寫評論，於中港台等地刊載。
Current:
Yamagata Film Criticism Workshop 2023, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, 5-12/10, participant.
Dialogue: Archaeological body and alternative media: critical historiography of Hong Kong experimental moving image in the 1960s and 1970s, Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival (跳格 — 香港國際舞蹈影像節), 14/9/2023, Kino, Eaton HK, (speaker)
