Rachael Rakes is a writer, curator, editor, and lecturer working on plotting for non-random chaos across media and places. She is currently at work on a book about material ghosts with artist Bo Wang, an experimental monograph with artist Femke Herregraven, and several projects. With Laura Huertas Millán, and Onyeka Igwe, she organizes the curatorial and research initiative on alternative ethnographies, Counter-Encounters. She is a committee member of the New York Film Festival and Porto/Post/Doc, and was Artistic Director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennial, Seoul.