AI Stories Guest Lecture: Synthetic arts – A queer feminist approach to GenAI
Cecilia Ka Hei Wong of Chinese University of Hong Kong shares her PhD research.
About the talk
The talk explores how the notion of failure offers a potent queer critique of global capitalism yet overlooks Chinese sovereigntism in Hong Kong, where failure to directly access American GenAI is an everyday condition rather than a counterintuitive act of resistance to neoliberalism. Building on failure as a postcolonial everyday condition, I then advance the idea of synthetic arts as an open ended process of collective interpretation, artistic creation, and meaning making between humans and machines.
About Cecilia Ka Hei Wong
is a PhD candidate (ABD) in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research examines queer feminist digital cultures and activism in Hong Kong, with interests spanning creator cultures and creative industry, algorithmic platform governance, GenAI arts, postcolonial studies and queer feminisms. Her peer-reviewed work has appeared in Communication, Culture & Critique, the Journal of Digital Social Research, and Global South Creator Cultures.