Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University's Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media and leads the Digital Democracies Institute. She is the author of several works including "Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics" (MIT, 2006),"Programmed Visions: Software and Memory" (MIT, 2011), "Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media"(MIT, 2016), "Discriminating Data" (MIT, 2021), and the co-author of "Pattern Discrimination" (University of Minnesota & Meson Press, 2019). She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she worked for almost two decades and where she's currently a Visiting Professor. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and she has held fellowships from: the Guggenheim, ACLS, American Academy of Berlin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.