Evelyn Char is a Ph.D. candidate in Visual Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Her dissertation examines contemporary hydromedia hailing from Asia, considering how they enable submerged histories of displacement and translocal intimacies to resurface. She teaches and writes about art at the intersection with diaspora, cultural identity, memory, and spectrality. As an art critic, she has received the “Hong Kong Art Development Award for Young Artist in Art Criticism,” and has been commissioned to contribute catalog essays by institutions such as M+ (Hong Kong) and Asian Art Museum (San Francisco).