Helen Grace is a new media artist, filmmaker, writer and academic whose work has played an active role in the development of art, cinema, photography, cultural studies and education in Australia and regionally for 30 years. Elements of art and politics intertwine in her work as she draws on the past to reflect on the present. Grace’s work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; and has been exhibited internationally in Hong Kong, the US, the UK, France, Spain and Finland. Grace’s latest book (co-edited with Amy Chan Kit-Sze and Wong Kin Yuen) is Technovisuality: Cultural Re-Enchantment and the Experience of Technology (IB Tauris, 2016). In 2014 her book Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media: The Prosaic Image, was published by Routledge. She was Founding Director of the MA Programme in Visual Culture Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; she is now Adjunct Professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at CUHK and an associate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, at the University of Sydney. She is a member of the Film Advisory Panel of Sydney International Film Festival, where she focuses on Asian and independent cinema.