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Hsin-Yuan Peng is an environmental film media theorist specializing in transnational cinematic movements across East Asia, Europe, and North America. He is currently working on a book project titled, Cinematic Meteorology: Aesthetics and Epistemology of Weather Images, which traces the transpacific history of meteorological filmmaking to reveal cinema’s centrality to meteorological research in Japan. Recognizing meteorological image-making as a form of knowledge production, the project argues that our scientific understanding of the atmosphere is cinematically constructed. This construction accentuates the concurrent importance of weather as a metaphorical testing ground for cinematic possibilities. Drawing on media archaeology and visual analysis, it proposes an alternative genealogy of cinema from the perspective of atmospheric science, accounting for a sustained investment in observing and engineering weather within Japanese culture. His research has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, and the Nippon Foundation.
Department of Philosophy