| WHAT WE NEVER FORGET FOR PEACE HERE NOW (12 min) US WEDNESDAY 10/23, 6:30 PM (SESSION 17) |
Anita Chang is an artist who works with various media forms, including film, digital video, photography, installation and the web. She has worked as a community activist, an urban youth counselor, civil rights investigator, and education director for a non-profit San Francisco-based media literacy organization. She has attended artist residencies in Nepal, Headlands Center for the Arts, Taipei Artist Village, and Hweilan International Artists’ Workshop. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital Grant, National Geographic All Roads Grant, Fulbright Lecturing Award, Film Arts Foundation Personal Works Grant, Serpent Source Grant, Open Meadows Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant, KQED/Peter J. Owens Filmmaker Award, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center Grant, Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship, and an Asian American Arts Foundation Grant. Her essay “Altered States for a Critical Cosmopolitanism” was published in 2016 as part of Routledge’s AFI Film Readers series book, Teaching Transnational Cinema and Media: Politics and Pedagogy. She also taught critical media studies and production courses at SFSU, USF and UC Santa Cruz, and is currently teaching in the Department of Communication at Cal State East Bay.
Contact Information:
e: awschang@gmail.com
w: https://anitachangworks.com/
