Daryl Chin, is Associate Editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance & Art.  He has contributed articles to M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory and Criticism (edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor; Duke University Press, 2001), Asia in New York City: A Cultural Travel Guide (Asia Society & Avalon Travel Press, 2001), Tokens: The NYC Asian American Experience on Stage (edited by Alvin Eng; Asian American Writers Workshop & Temple University Press, 2001), among other anthologies. In a series of four lectures held at AAARI entitled “Asian American Cinema Workshop: The Moving Images of the Asian-American”, he examined some of the issues relating to the representation of Asian identity in American media.  Currently, he is completing a monograph on the video artist Shigeko Kubota.

 

Yunah Hong is a New York based video/filmmaker.   Her latest documentary is “Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry” (2001) which received a CINE Golden Eagle Award in Education category in 2002.  Her documentary, “Becoming an Actress in New York” (2000) named a final nominee for aMedia's 2001 Ammy Awards for Best Documentary.  Her other works include “Styles Section”, “Through the Milky Way”, which was awarded First Prize in Video Art at the 1992 Tam Tam International Video Festival in Italy, “Here Now”, winner of the Special Jury Award at the 2nd Seoul Short Film Festival in Korea in 1995, and a feature screenplay, “Monday”, which was an official selection of PPP 1998: Pusan International Film Festival Film Market in Korea.

Ms. Hong was born in Seoul, Korea, and moved to New York in 1985 to pursue her studies in video art.  She received a B.F.A. degree in applied arts from Seoul National University and a M.A. degree in communication arts from New York Institute of Technology.

 

Herman Lew is an Assistant Professor and the program Director of the undergraduate Film and Video Production specialization in the Department of Media and Communication Arts at The City College of New York. He has written and directed seven short films and his extensive work as a cinematographer includes feature films, documentaries, and commercials. Professor Lew is the recipient of a New York Foundation For The Arts Fellowship and has received grants from the New York State Council On The Arts. Since 1989, he has been the director of the nationally recognized Film and Video Production Workshop program at Third World Newsreel. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium, which produces the Academy Award sanctioned Black Maria Film Festival.

 

Roopali Mukherjee, P.h. D., is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, CUNY.  Dr. Mukherjee joined the City University of New York, after working for several years as a faculty member at Indiana University, Bloomington and the University of California, Los Angeles.  Her research and teaching focuses on issues of race/ethnicity, contemporary film, and American politics.  She is currently completing a book entitled, “The Racial Order of Things: Public Policy and the Cultural Imaginary," and has published articles on affirmative action, American patriotism, and race and gender.  She teaches courses on political communication, free speech, and news analysis.

 

Thomas Tam, is Executive Director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI).   Dr. Tam is also Chairman of the Asian American Higher Education Council (AAHEC), as well as the President of Oishi Movies, Inc., which produced a feature: Sunrise on Mulberry Street .  He received his Ph.D. degree in SocioMedical Sciences with honors from Columbia University, and other degrees in Film-making, Public Health, and Physics from Montclair State University, Columbia, and City College of New York, CUNY.

 

Ying Zhu, is Assistant Professor of Media Culture, at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.  Prof. Zhu has published articles in CineAction (1998), Asian/Pacific Journal (1998), Asian Culture Quarterly (2000), Consumption Markets and Culture (2002), Quarterly Review of Film & Video (2001), and the Journal of Communication (2002).  She is also the author of "Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System (Praeger, 2003)."