Ben Valentine – Ben Valentine is a writer currently living in Cambodia. Having worked for Hyperallergic and SFAQ as a staff writer, Ben now works independently, and has written and presented on art and culture around the world for a variety of publications and spaces such as Salon, The New Inquiry, SXSW, the Museum of the Moving Image, the de Young Museum, and more. Ben was once chased an elephant in Tanzania and can read children's books in Khmer, albeit slowly.

“Meta Moeng: a bridge-builder in Cambodia’s art world,” 2018, Arts Equator
“Transformation and Non-Adventure in Ashley Shelby’s South Pole Station,” 2018, Los Angeles Review of Books
“How Can Ecological Artists Move Beyond Aesthetic Gestures?” 2017, Hyperallergic
“Art & Disabilities in Southeast Asia | The story of Epic Arts,” 2017, Arts Equator + Culture 360
“Demolishing Phnom Penh,” 2017, The Towner
“Vietnamese Artists Respond to Marine Disaster Through #IChooseFish,” 2016, Hyperallergic
“Virtual reality gets real in latest campaigns,” Mobilisation Lab, 2016
“Art After Social Media in Cambodia,” Rhizome, 2015
“The Pirate Party’s ‘Poetician’ Plans to Make Iceland a Data Haven,” Motherboard, 2014
“Oakland’s Sudo Mesh Looks to Counter Censorship and Digital Divide With a Mesh Network,” Tech President, 2014