RUANG// publishes writing on Southeast Asian contemporary art with a focus on critical perspectives. We are especially interested in work that engages with technology, ecology, colonial histories, and the shifting cultural and political contexts of the region — but we also welcome other approaches that push conversations forward.
Technology here is not only digital tools or emerging media, but also infrastructures, networks, and systems — from extractive industries and surveillance apparatuses to vernacular knowledge and speculative futures. Ecology extends beyond the “natural environment” to include contested landscapes, indigenous cosmologies, resource politics, and the shifting relations between human and more-than-human worlds.