Kristy Kang at the APA Los Angeles 2025 Gala

School of Arts, Media and Engineering associate professor Kristy Kang will give the opening remarks at the 2025 Annual Gala of the American Planning Association, which will be hosted by ASU at ASU California Center Broadway. 

Kang is an associate professor of Urban Media Art and Design in Arts, Media and Engineering in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and is also a faculty member who works in the ASU Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center. As a practice-based researcher, her work navigates the triangulation of place, geographies and cultural memory. Her research interests combine urban and ethnic studies, mapping and emerging media arts to visualize cultural histories of cities and communities. Her works have been presented at the Gwangju Design Biennale, South Korea; the Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore; the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; the Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; and the Jewish Museum, Berlin, among others and received the Jury Award for New Forms at the Sundance Online Festival.

The Gala celebrates the best and brightest in urban planning and the work being done across the LA region to create more livable, vibrant and inclusive communities.