Curriculum Vitae
| David Yun |
| Lives: |
San Francisco, California, USA |
| Born: |
Dearborn, Michigan, USA, 1977 |
| Education: |
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, MFA in Filmmaking, 2006-2009
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, BA with Honors in English & BA in Computer Science, 1996-2000 |
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| Selected Screenings |
| 2010 |
25 FPS Looks Back: Selection of the Best in Experimental Documentary | Zagreb, Croatia
Amsterdam Film Festival | Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Award Winner)
28th San Francisco International Asian Film Festival | San Francisco, California
New York Independent Film and Video Festival| New York, New York (Award Winner) |
| 2009 |
26th Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Film Festival | Boston, Massachusetts
2nd Kentucky Showcase of Short Film & Video| Louisville Film Society, Louisville, Kentucky
SFAI MFA Graduate Film & Video Screening | SFMoMA, San Francisco, California
Latent Images | Swarm Gallery, Oakland, Calfornia
Curt.doc Short Documentary Festival | Vidreres, Spain
International Film Festival South Africa | Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Shifting Narratives | San Francisco, California
9th Slant: Bold Asian American Images | Houston, Texas
36th Athens International Film & Video Festival | Athens, Ohio
2nd San Joaquin International Film Festival | Stockton, California
7th CINtax Film Forum | Univeristy of California at Riverside, Riverside, California
13th Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival | Tempe, Arizona (Award Winner)
Spark Video | Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, New York
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
Intercity | Meta House, Phnom Penh,Cambodia
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| Selected Exhibitions |
| 2010 |
Snap to Grid | Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), 2010
There and Back | Liquid SPACES, San Francisco, Calfornia, 2010 (curated by Colin Piper)
Above and Below | Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, California (curated by Jean Cooney) |
| 2009 |
Present Tense Biennial | Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, California (curated by Kevn B. Chen)
Family Pictures | Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, California (curated by Michelle Townsend)
Vernissage: SFAI MFA Graduate Exhibition | Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California
Fresh Young Things | JayJay, Sacramento, California, 2009 (curated by Kristina Schloscher)
EPIC: Visualizing Heroes Within | SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California (curated by Rico J. Reyes)
(((DREAMCACHER))) | Disjecta, Portland, Oregon (with Sarah Wylie Ammerman; curated by Nicole Marie Paterson and Karla Melo Santos)
Being Gay | 2nd City Council Art Gallery, Long Beach, California (juried by David Burns, Austin Young and Matias Viegener)
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 Kevin B. Chen, Rene de Guzman, Taraneh Hemami)
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; 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)
The Moving Picture Show | Swell Gallery, San Francisco, California |
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| Selected 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) |
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| Bibliography |
| 2010 |
Interviewed by David Perry, Ten Percent, Comcast Hometown Network, 15 March 2010.
Markus, Erica, "Oh So Queer and More: The 2010 SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival,"San Francisco Bay Times, 11 March 2010.
Lamble, David, "Queer accent on Asian American lives," Bay Area Reporter, 11 March 2010.
Langson, Kevin, "@ the 2010 Asian American Film Fest," Edge San Francisco, 9 March 2010.
Higa, Lori, "Local Filmmaker Features Potrero’s People and Places," The Potrero View, March 2010.
28th SFIAAFF Opens, Hokubei.com, 11 March 2010 |
| 2009 |
CatSynth (2009, Sepbember 8). Present Tense Biennial, Chinese Culture Center. CatSynth. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
Taylor, Ann, "Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character: Re-framing Questions of Identity", sfstation.com, 6 August 2009.
Dalkey, Victoria, "Picked Fresh from the field of fine art", Sacramento Bee, 17 July 2009.
San Francisco Art Openings First Thursday (Feb 09), ArtBusiness.com, 5 February 2009.
Nicholson, Casandra, "ASU Art Museum Film Festival Showcases National, International Talent", Phoenix Examiner, 19 April 2009. |
| 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. |
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| Artist Talks, Lectures & Panels |
| 2009 |
Artist Talk, Salon! You're On!,Eth-Noh-Tec Studio, San Francisco, California
Artist Talk, Micaëla Gallery, San Francisco, California
Artist Panel for Decoding Identity Exhibition, Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, California |
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| Grants & Awards |
| 2010 |
Best Avant-garde Film, Amsterdam Film Festival | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Best Experimental Feature, New York Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles, California |
| 2009 |
Nominee for Best LGBT Film, International Film Festival South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Juror Choice Award, 13th Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival, Tempe, Arizona
March Showcase Winner, Photography Category, ArtSlant.com |
| 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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| Related Experience |
Art Director, Synching Blue, Dir. SEO Won-Tae, San Francisco, California.
Teaching Assistant, Digital Cinema I, San Francisco Art Institute. Professor Sam Green.
Film Department Representative , Legion of Graduate Students (LoGS), San Francisco Art Institute.
Tutor, Center For Individual Learning (CIL), San Francisco Art Institute. |
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