Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is currently a visiting professor at Leuphana University (Germany) and is completing a monograph entitled Imagined Networks. Speaking as part of the "Distributed Intimacies" Banff Research in Culture (BRiC) residency program.