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Chantal Meng

Visiting Assistant Professor

Email
cmeng@pratt.edu
Phone
718.636.3598
Websites
http://www.chantalmeng.com
Night Drawing
Urban Darkness
Pronouns
She/Her/Hers

Chantal Meng is a visual artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. Chantal is a Fulbright Scholar, a Stuart Hall PhD Fellow, and a recipient of a Doc.Mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). She is the co-founder of the design studio POL and the art space Grand Palais in Bern, Switzerland, and the initiator of the project Night Drawing. In her work on the urban night, she explores practice-based research methods related to urban lighting and the contemporary perception of darkness.

PhD, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies,
Goldsmiths, University of London

MA, Photography & Urban Cultures — Sociology,
Goldsmiths, University of London

Meng, Chantal. 2022. “Night Drawing: Re-writing Darkness in the Nocturnal Land/Cityscape.” Ethnologies 44(1):153. doi: 10.7202/1096061ar.