DAVID YUN bridgeArtFair NY 2008 ARTIST bridgeArtFair Miami Beach 2008 ARTIST Born: Dearborn, Michigan, 1977 Resides: San Francisco, California Artist Biography David Yun grew up the son of Chinese immigrants in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit that holds the title as "The Whitest Large City in the United States." His work spans a variety of mediums including film/video, photography, social practice, and installation and has been shown around the world at venues such as the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, European Media Arts Festival, New York Asian American Film Festival, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Seoul International Film Festival, and Documenta Madrid. In early 2009, Yun's work will be shown in an exhibition entitled "I Do It for My People" at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. He is currently pursuing an MFA degree at San Francisco Art Institute. CANNON::NORTH::YUN Artist Statement In this series of works I am engaging with how advancements in technology such as photography and video have altered the way we remember. There are three intertwined but unique bodies of work that comprise my examination of this theme. Each of the three components mirror the three stages of how memory works--Encoding, Storage, and Recall. "Encoding" - In examining the first stage of memory making, I have taken photographs and erased out most of the background, leaving the photo's subject and a hint of where they are behind. In reducing these photographic images down to their essence, I hope to bring forth ideas about how we have come to rely upon photographs to create the memories for us, and how in a sense, our notions of the past are always informed (and transformed) by the visual catalog of our own lives that we are compelled to create. "Storage" - In the second group of works, I am engaging with the idea of storage by looking at single frames from found VHS home movies. While we assume our memories are eternal, our lives inevitably change, and consequently our relationship with these memories change. What would cause someone to give away their home movies of their wedding or the birth of their child? The VHS form perfectly illustrates this in its low fidelity and comparatively short lifespan. Many of these tapes have begun to degrade and it is as though these memories are turning into vapor, a snowstorm composed entirely of magnetic fields recorded on 1" of tape. I have purposely sought out and photographed moments on these tapes where this information has begun to degrade, leaving behind a semblance of the original event. "Recall" - In the final stage of this exploration, I am putting forth the idea that organic, unadulterated memory is impossible to achieve, and that any images or incidents we recall from our past, are inevitably colored by our experience, how we encode and store those memories, and the relationships we create from one memory to the next. The process of recall formally manifests itself through video projected from both sides of a found window pane suspended from the ceiling thus creating a floating screen that one can view from all sides. CV (Resume) | Education: | | | 2006-Present | San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, MFA candidate | | 1996-2000 | Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, BA with Honors in English & BA in Computer Science | | | | | Selected Screenings | | | 2009 | Spark Video | Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, New York (curted by Blake Carrington) | | | 22nd Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media | Stuttgart, Germany | | 2008 | Alternative Film/Video Festival | Belgrade, Serbia | | | Platforma Video 8 | Athens, Greece | | | Filmski Front | Kino Klub, Novi Sad, Serbia | | | Jordan Short Film Festival | Amman, Jordan | | | 21st Dallas Video Festival | Dallas, Texas | | | 6th Detroit Docs | Detroit, Michigan | | | 2nd Oblo Film Festival | Lausanne, Switzerland | | | Document 6 | Glasgow, Scotland | | | Austin Asian American Film Festival | Austin, Texas | | | 11th Vancouver Asian Film Festival | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | | | 9th DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival | Washington, D.C. | | | 11th Antimatter Underground Film Festival | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | | | 2nd Sydney Underground Film Festival | Sydney, Australia | | | 25 FPS Festival | Zagreb, Croatia | | | 23rd Odense Film Festival | Odense, Denmark | | | Perpetual Ends | Elastic Arts Foundation, Chicago, Illinois (curated by Colin Palombi) | | | 31st Asian American International Film Festival | New York, New York | | | 4th Video Art Festival Miden | Kalamata, Greece | | | 9th Seoul International Film Festival | Seoul, South Korea | | | Threat Level Queer Shorts | Elegant Mister Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (curated by Jules Roskam) | | | 27th European Media Arts Festival | Osnabrück, Germany | | | Documenta Madrid | Madrid, Spain | | | 35th Athens International Film & Video Festival | Athens, Ohio | | | 5th Oxford Film Festival | Oxford, Mississippi | | 2007 | 19th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | | 6th Reel Asian Film Festival | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | Terra Incognita III | New Langton Arts/San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, California | | | I Don't Know Where I've Been | Continuing MFA Film/Video Screening, San Francisco, California | | 2006 | Intercity | Meta House, Phnom Penh,Cambodia | | | | | Selected Exhibitions | | | 2009 | Decoding Identity: I Do It For My People | Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, California (curated by Demetrie Broxton, Erica Agyeman) | | | CANNON::NORTH::YUN | Micaëla Gallery, San Francisco, California (catalog) | | 2008 | 10th APAture Festival of Emerging Asian Pacific American Artists | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California | | | Bridge Art Fair Miami (with Micaëla Gallery) | Miami, Florida | | | Immediate Future | San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California (juried by Lisa Dent, Charles Mobley, Denise Ruiz, Meg Shiffler) | | | Videoholica 08 | Biennial August in Art, Varna, Bulgaria (curated by Tzvetan Krastev, Neno Belchev) | | | Insider/Outsider | Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, California (catalog; curated by Rene de Guzman, Taraneh Hemami, Kevin B. Chen) | | | What Goes Around | ARTworkSF Gallery, San Francisco, California (catalog; curated by Matt McKinley, Tim Rosebrough) | | | Transhift08 | Knoxville, Tennessee (curated by Cindy Latham) | | | Bridge Art Fair NY (with Micaëla Gallery) | New York, New York | | | Digital Delay | Micaëla Gallery, San Francisco, California (catalog; 3 Person Exhibition, curated by Scott Kiernan, Anne Yalon) | | 2007 | I.O.U. | Mission 17 Annual Juried Exhibition, San Francisco, California (catalog; juried by Clark Buckner, Jeannene Przyblyski , Elaine Santos, Meg Shiffler) | | | Another Country | Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, California (catalog; curated by Allan DeSouza, tammy ko Robinson, Laura Swanson) | | | Continuing MFA Exhibition | Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California | | | Summer Triangle: Part 1 | KGB Gallery, Los Angeles, California (curated by Josette Melchor) | | | I’m Out | Gray Area Gallery, San Francisco, California (curated by Josette Melchor) | | | Layer | Swell Gallery, San Francisco, California | | | SFAI Now | Red Ink Studios, San Francisco, California | | | San Francisco World’s Fair of 2007 | San Francisco, California (curated by CCA curatorial studies MA graduates) | | 2006 | The Moving Picture Show | Swell Gallery, San Francisco, California | | | | | Television Broadcasts, Traveling Programs & DVD Releases | | | 2008 | Alternative Film/Video DVD 2008 | Akademski Filmski Centar, Belgrade, Serbia | | | Lens Crafted | Asian Cine Vision National Festival Tour | | | Moving Imaginations | Manhattan Neighborhood Network (selected by Daryl Chin and William Phuan) | | | | | Bibliography | | | 2008 | Gannon, Victoria, "Art Review: Insider/Outsider", KQED.com, 25 July 2008 | | | Huston, Johnny Ray, "Our Weekly Picks", San Francisco Bay Guardian, 9 July 2008. | | | Shoot, Brittany, "David Yun", DV Blog, 9 June 2008. | | | Buckner, Chris, "Video Killed the Portrait Artist", Metro Pulse, 30 April 2008. | | | Keish, Kathleen, "Film festival hits town on Friday", Athens Messenger, 24 April 2008. | | | Nichalou, Libby, "David Yun", Libby's Niche, 11 March 2008. | | 2006 | Landow, George, Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization, Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 206, 423. | | 2003 | Landow, George, "The Paradigm is More Important Than the Purchase: Educational Innovation and Hypertext Theory", Essay from Digital Media Revisited: Theoretical and Conceptual Innovation in Digital Domains, MIT Press. | | | A catalog of press clippings can be found at: http://www.davidmyun.com/about/press.html | | Artist Talks, Lectures & Panels | | | 2009 | Artist Panel for Decoding Identity Exhibition, Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, California | | | | | Grants & Awards | | | 2008 | Significant Achievement Award, Alternative Film/Video, Belgrade, Serbia | | | Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in Fine Arts, San Francisco Foundation | | 2007 | Kodak Film Production Grant, San Francisco Art Institute | | | Best Videographer, Show Some Color 2, Fabricatorz | | 2000 | Radcliffe Hicks Premium, Brown University | | | William H. McLoughlin Thesis Award, Brown University | | 1999 | Research at Brown Grant, Brown University | | | Robinson Potter Dunn Premium, Brown University | | | Royce Fellowship Finalist, Brown University | | | |
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