Yani Kong is a writer, editor, and scholar of contemporary art in Vancouver, Canada. She has published essays for The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK; The Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation, Vancouver BC; The Freedman Gallery, Reading PA, and is a regular contributor to Galleries West. Her research areas are reception aesthetics, contemporary art history, and digital ecology and eco-aesthetics. As a member of the Low Carbon Research Methods Working Group and director of the Small File Media Festival, she explores sustainable practices in streaming media and filmmaking.
