Johann Yamin’s (he/they) current research and writing focus on digital cultures from the contexts of Singapore and its broader region of Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the materiality of communication infrastructures and their entanglements with colonial histories. He holds an MA in Media Studies from The New School, New York with a graduate minor in Transmedia & Digital Storytelling, and a BSocSci in Communications and New Media from the National University of Singapore with undergraduate minors in Art History and Film Production. As of 2025, he is a member of the editorial collective for Southeast of Now, an open-access scholarly journal on Southeast Asian art and visual culture published by the National University of Singapore Press.
As an art worker, he was a 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellow at Eyebeam for co-organizing the online project Pulau Something, a Curatorial & Research Resident at the Singapore Art Museum in 2021, and the recipient of a Rhizome Microgrant in 2023.
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Yamin, Johann and Alex Mitchell. “Excavating Amnesia: A Media Archaeology of Early Internet Art from Singapore.” Southeast of Now 7, no. 2 (October 2023): 47–78.
Online and Editorial Publications
Yamin, Johann. “The Body, An Ocean: Revisiting the Jimmy Ong Archives.” National University of Singapore Museum. September 2, 2025.
Yamin, Johann. “Pigeon Poetics: Movements to, through, and from Southeast Asia.” The New School Media+Migration Lab. August 31, 2024.
Yamin, Johann and Samantha Yap. “Flesh Coded and Performed: An Interview with Margaret Tan.” Hothouse. October 8, 2023.