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Runjie Wang is a PhD candidate whose research situates scientific, industrial, and utility films within a constellation of media-technical objects that institutionalize knowledge and evidence. His dissertation recentralizes symbolic forms by interrogating their recursive operation within technical systems—epistemic loops that particularly emerged from military-industrial-capitalist visual regimes, logistics, and the reconfiguration of human-machine relations in Cold War China and US.
His additional research interests include cinematic ethnological knowledge, readymade objects and work/media, with related articles appearing or forthcoming in The Moving Image, Asian Cinema, and Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, among others. He's the recipient of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Nontheatrical Student Essay Award 2024. At UW, his research is supported by the China Studies Fellowship and the Gundlach Scholarship in Labor Studies. He also convened the "Mediating Experiences, Experiencing Mediation" CMS Grad Conference.