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Dr. Cassandra Xin Guan is a visiting assistant professor in science, technology, and society at Brown University and a faculty member at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her research elucidates the power of propagandistic media in organizing and disorganizing our adaptive responses to the modified environments of modernity. A historian and theorist of environmental media aesthetics, she coedited a 2020 Screen dossier ("Natural Aesthetics") with Dr. Adam O'Brian, and her essay, “Critique of Flowers: The Exigency of Life in the Era of Its Technological Reproducibility,” appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of October. Guan is currently at work on a screen history of adaptive plasticity, provisionally titled “Maladaptive Media: ‘Life’ and Other Works of Animation.”
