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Winston Xin is a Malaysian-born, Chinese-Canadian media artist, curator, and writer. His video programs have shown nationally and internationally. Xin was the Exhibitions Programmer at Video In Studios, an artist-run media arts centre in Vancouver, from 1996-2000. He has served on several arts and cultural boards in Vancouver and on arts juries. Xin is currently on the Artists Advisory Board for Vancouver's Out on Screen Queer Film & Video Festival, for which he has been programming since 1994. He is also one of founders of Asian Heritage Month Vancouver, a month-long Asian arts festival. Xin's curatorial and artistic practice focuses on the ways differing cultures meet, oppose, interface, and dialogue within media art.
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Wayne Yung was born in Canada in 1971 to a Chinese immigrant family. Since his first video release in 1994, he has travelled extensively to screen his work at film festivals in North America, Europe and Asia. He often examines issues of race and identity from a queer Chinese-Canadian point of view. As a curator, he has guest programmed at the Out on Screen Queer Film & Video Festival (Vancouver), the Sensory Perceptions Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Portland Oregon), and the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival of Hamburg (Germany). He has lived in Vancouver, Hong Kong, Berlin and Hamburg, and is currently based in Cologne.
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Richard Fung is a Toronto-based videomaker and writer. His tapes, which explore the intersection of race, sexuality and representation, have been widely screened and collected internationally, and his essays on cultural policy and politics have been published in many journals and anthologies. Fung frequently curates film and video, and has served on the boards and committees of several organizations. He has lectured and taught across North America and is the recipient of many awards, including Rockefeller and McKnight Foundation fellowships, the 2000 Margo Bindhardt Award and most recently the 2001 Bell Canada Award in Video Art. He currently teaches at the Centre for Independent Visual Media and Education, University of Toronto.
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Ming-Yuen S. Ma was born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Hong Kong. He received a B.A. in Art History from Columbia University, and an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts. Ma has created video installations in many North American venues, and his videotapes have screened nationally and internationally. Ma's critical writing and text-based art has been included in many anthologies and journals, including FELIX, Found Object, Framework, Journal of Homosexuality, and Amerasia Journal. He has received grants and awards from Art Matters Inc., the Brody Arts Fund, the California Digital Arts Workshop, the Durfee Foundation, Long Beach Museum of Art, Video In Studios, and WESTAF/NEA. He has also worked as a festival organizer (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 1993-96, L.A. Freewaves Experimental Media Arts Festival 1998) and guest curator at various other venues. Ma currently teaches at UC Riverside's Art Dept., and has taught at UC Irvine, Santa Barbara and in southern California youth video production workshops.
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Nguyen Tan Hoang is a Vietnamese American video artist whose work interrogates forms of desire in queer Asian male identities. He received a BA in Art and Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MFA in Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. His short experimental videos have screened extensively in the U.S. and abroad in venues such as Anthology Film Archive (New York), Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), British Film Institute (London), and Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris). He has also curated film, video, and performance programs for MIX New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, and Artists' Television Access (San Francisco). His critical essay, "The Resurrection of Brandon Lee: The Making of a Gay Asian American Porn Star," will appear in the anthology Porn Studies (Linda Williams, Editor), from Duke University Press in 2004.
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Michael Shaowanasai is a multi-disciplinary artist best known for his Adventures of Iron Pussy series, which has received numerous awards. As alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA) and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA), he has exhibited and screened internationally at various art events, such as Gwangju Biennale 2002 (Korea) and Sydney Mardi Gras 2000 (Australia). Shaowanasai is also actively involved in the gay community in Thailand, directing the Bangkok Pride Gay & Lesbian International Films & Video Festival 2002, and working for Bangkok Pride coalition 2001-2002. He lectures in the area of film, video art and fine arts at Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University, and Bangkok University.
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Ho Tam was born in Hong Kong and educated in Toronto, and worked in advertising firms and community psychiatric facilities before turning to art. He works in a diverse mix of disciplines including painting, video, print and public art and has exhibited in various cities across North America. His first video, The Yellow Pages, was commissioned by the public arts group Public Access for an installation/projection at Union Station in Toronto, 1994/95; since then he has produced some twenty videos. After several years in New York, he now lives in Toronto, where he continues his art practice today.
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A multimedia artist, Paul Wong is an internationally recognized figure based in Vancouver. Over the past three decades, Wong has played a crucial role in the development of media art. In 1973, Wong co-founded the Satellite Video Exchange Society (Video In), an important Vancouver centre for the production and distribution of independent video. He is also co-founder and Artistic Director of On Edge Productions, producing cross-cultural and cross-border collaborations of new art. In 1995-96, a mid-career retrospective of his work was held at the National Gallery of Canada. As a curator and mentor to younger artists, Wong has been an influential figure in the Vancouver art community. In 1992, Wong received the Canada Council's Bell Canada Award in Video Art in recognition of his pioneering contribution to the development of video practices in Canada, and in spring 2002 he was recognized in Vancouver with the Asian Canadian Heritage Award for Transforming Art.
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Raymond Yeung directed Yellow Fever in 1998. Since then, he has been working as the director of the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, while also art-directing numerous feature films and TV commercials in Hong Kong. Recently he wrote and completed his debut feature film Cut Sleeve Boys Ð the first gay British Chinese feature film, a romantic comedy centred on the lives of two gay Chinese living in London. Cut Sleeve Boys will be finished in the summer of 2005. A qualified lawyer, Ray has also written and directed stage plays in both Hong Kong and London.
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