Huirong Ye is a researcher and writer whose work spans Sinophone art, film and visual studies, environmental humanities, transpacific island and ocean studies, sensory history, epistemology, and activist media. She seeks to redefine the dynamic relationship between text and image, exploring new narrative possibilities at the intersections of historiography, ethnography, and representational media. Her research often transforms into lecture performances, where she disseminates unfinished and unauthorized knowledge through passionate amateurism; evolves into essay films—currently focusing on storms, lighthouses, and socialist women’s sky-watching groups; or takes the form of exhibitions, where she, as a curator, mediates the narratives and relationships between works by others. Ye graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and has lived and worked extensively between Boston and Shanghai. She is now constantly on the move.