Pronouns: he/they, or any pronoun used with kindness.

You can pronounce my name as Ling-you, or call me Mr./Mx./etc. Wang.

If you know Mandarin, it's Wáng Língyǔ, written as 王淩宇.

I study community archives of artworks and documents, examining their relations to identities, public memories, and perceptions of the living space. I work in the intersection of library and information science, art history, critical media studies, and other critical and humanistic fields. 

In praxes, I also build digital libraries and databases with people across disciplines of LIS, arts, and humanities.

Charya Burt Cambodian Dance Digital Library

To honor her lifetime commitment to preserve and advance Cambodian dance, Charya Burt has dedicated herself to provide resources that can be used by Cambodian Dance communities around the world. Those resources include video links to authentic dances from the classical repertory, innovative new works by Charya Burt rooted in tradition, and instructional dance and costuming videos all located in The Charya Burt Cambodian Dance Digital Library.  

Dataland

Dataland is a new block-based programming system designed to help middle and high-school-aged students learn and do data analysis and visualization. Dataland aims to foster data literacies in children by enabling them to write computer programs that analyze and visualize data that connect to their personal interests.

#Femifesto

#Femifesto is a multilingual feminist-centered framework for collaborative scholarly communication. With this project, we explore scenarios and use cases that arise in a variety of international as well as local scholarly communication contexts. We explore how to enact an ethic of care to ensure that marginalized voices and perspectives are given the space they deserve and that invisible emotional labor is recognized and valued.

Covid Story Map

In this project, we hope to highlight community stories during China's Covid shutdowns by building a public-facing, interactive digital archive that showcases the multitemporal yet all-encompassing impact that Covid and its subsequent “Zero-Covid” policies have had on individuals, and their creative and resourceful ways of coping. 

West Bank Wall Art Database

This project aims to develop a database around West Bank Wall's graffiti arts, and connect creative works of resistance with places, communities, artists and activists.

Conference Paper

Concepts, Practices, and Perspectives for Developing Computational Data Literacy: Insights from Workshops with a New Data Programming System | Co-Author | ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference | 2023

Dataland: An Informed, Situated, and Critical Approach to Data Literacy | Co-Author | 2nd Annual Meeing of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) | 2022 

Professional Blog

Charya Burt Cambodian Dance Digital Library | Dance/USA Archiving Fellowship Blog | 2022

Public Domain Day 2019 | The Back Table, NYU Archives and Special Collections Blog | 2019

Film Work

Children of River Roam the Earth | Feature film script | Co-Writer | WGAW Registration # 2125962 | 2022

The Cat In Me | Short film | Scriptwriter | Finalist at NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Film Festival | 2020

78.5.3 | Short documentary | Filmmaker | Presented NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference | Undergraduate Award, UC Berkeley Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize in Film and Video | 2018

Book Review

Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray (Eds.), Keywords for Media Studies | International Journal of Communication | 2019