Curriculum
Vitae
Ming-Yuen S. Ma
Office Address: Pitzer
College
213 Scott Hall
Claremont, CA 91711
Office Telephone: (909)
607-4139
Fax: (909) 621-8481
e-mail: Ming Ma
| PRESENT POSITION | ||
| Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College | ||
| EDUCATION | ||
| 1994 | Masters of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts | |
| 1990 | Bachelor of Art, Columbia University | |
| 1988 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture | |
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | ||
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2001-present |
Assistant Professor in Media Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, U.S.A. | |
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2000-2001 |
Visiting Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Studio Art Dept., UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, U.S.A. | |
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2000 |
Lecturer, Studio Art Dept., UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, U.S.A. | |
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1999 |
Instructor, Digital Video (using Final Cut Pro), American
InterContinental University, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. | |
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1997-2000 |
Lecturer, Asian American Studies Dept., UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A. | |
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| ACADEMIC ADVISING | ||
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2001-present |
Student advising (including
Freshman) for the general student body as well as Media Studies at Pitzer
College. I currently have 26 advisees. | |
| Supervised Independent Study projects, Media Internships, and Media Studies senior thesis projects. | ||
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2001 |
Senior Art Majors portfolio review for graduation, UC Riverside Art Department | |
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2000 |
Graduate student first and second year reviews, UC Irvine Studio Art Department | |
| CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT | ||
| 2002-2003 | Hewlett
Cross-Disciplinary Group with Mita Banerjee, Hal Fairchild, Laura Harris,
Joe Parker, and Maria Soldatenko | |
| Hewlett workshop with T.J. Mueller and Margaret Kasimatis | ||
| Individual consultation on pedagogy with T.J. Mueller | ||
| Pitzer Curriculum Committee representative for Media Studies field group | ||
| Curriculum development for 5C Media Studies program | ||
| Curriculum development for Pitzer Media Studies program | ||
| 2001-2002 | Curriculum development for Pitzer Media Studies program | |
| AFFILIATED PROGRAMS at PITZER and THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES | ||
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IDAAS (Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies) - core faculty member | ||
| SCHOLARLY AND ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES | ||
| Awards & Grants | ||
| 2001-2 | Pitzer College Faculty Start-Up Grant | |
| 2000 | Durfee Foundation Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant | |
| 1998 | California Digital Arts Workshop, American Film Institute and California Arts Council | |
| 1997 | Brody Media Arts Fellowship | |
| 1996 | New Visions: Video,
Long Beach Museum of Art WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowships for Visual Artists in New Genres | |
| 1995 | Art Matters Inc. Fellowship | |
| Selected Exhibitions: Video | ||
| Movements East—West (2003) 17 min., Digital Video This video is structured as a composite timeline of sixty dates and places, starting in 1841 and ending in 2001. In this chronology, significant dates in Ma's personal and family history mingle and intersect with world historical events, showing the larger social and political forces behind his migrations. | ||
| 2004 Festival International Nouveau Cinéma Nouveaux Médias Montréal, Montréal, Canada | ||
| 2003 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles, U.S.A. | ||
| Mother/Land (2000) 25 min., Betacam SP video Based on a series of interviews Ma conducted with his mother before and after her departure from Hong Kong—a place she has called home for over 60 years, this experimental documentary is a meditation on the different departures and separations that have shaped Ma’s identity. It portrays both the demise and dispersal of a traditional, heterosexual, Chinese family, and the formation of new diasporic relationships that are queer, trans-national, but no less Chinese. | ||
| 2001 Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland | ||
| 2000 Cinematexas 5, Austin, TX, U.S.A. | ||
| New York Asian American International Film Festival, New York, U.S.A. | ||
| MIX 2000: New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, NY, U.S.A. | ||
| Myth(s) of Creation (1997) 17 min., Betacam SP video An experimental videotape that combines accounts of trips with Ma’s family in China, Europe, and the U.S. with excerpts from travel writing, testimonies of political exiles and refugees, and quotes from theoretical discussions on nomadic subject positions. In this discursive essay of sound, text, and images, Ma and his family assume and discard the identities of tourist, traveler, foreign investor, immigrant, refugee, illegal alien, exile. | ||
| 1998 Festival International Nouveau Cinéma Nouveaux Médias Montréal,
Montréal, Canada 1997 New Visions: Video, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A. Testimony: Reconstructing Histories, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, U.S.A. | ||
| Sniff (1997) 5 min., Betacam SP video A meditation on promiscuity, obsession, fear of death and AIDS. Using structural repetition and video degeneration to create a sense of memory and loss. | ||
| 2003 Video windows, Stux Gallery, NYC, U.S.A. | ||
| 1998 Images Festival, Toronto, Canada (Winner of Directors’ Choice
Award, Best Experimental) MIX Mexico, Mexico City Reports: Three Programs of Video Art, V Tape, Toronto, Canada Sexuality in Chinese Film Showcase, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. | ||
| 1997 TechnoLust Festival, Antwerp, Belgium World Wide Video Festival, the Hague, the Netherlands | ||
| Slanted Vision (1995) 50 min., Betacam SP video An energetic experimental video that explores the relation between vision and desire with eroticized images of Asian men. A promiscuous montage inspired by gay porn videos, kung fu movies and TV cooking shows; made in collaboration with a diverse group of queer Asian artists, writers, performers and musicians. | ||
| 1996 6e MONDIAL de la Video, Brussels, Belgium Asian American International Film Showcase, San Francisco, U.S.A. L.A. Freewaves at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, U.S.A. London Film Festival, London, UK Seattle Asian American Film Festival, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. | ||
| Toc Storee (1992) 21 min., 3/4” video A video that utilizes the story telling formats to create a multilevel narrative that explores the relations between speech, language, and desire. Addressing the issues of sexuality, subjectivity, tradition, and identity in Asian gay contexts. | ||
| 1998 Reversal to Digital: Third World Newsreel at 30, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A. | ||
| 1995 Identidad, el video como espejo, La Sala del Deseo, CENTRO DE LA IMAGEN, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| 1994 Robert Flaherty International Film Seminar, Aurora, New York, U.S.A. | ||
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1993 American Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles,
U.S.A. Let My People Go (1992) 5 min., 3/4” video 1993 Crossing L.A., The Los Angeles Festival, Los Angeles,
U.S.A. Aura (1991) 7 min., 3/4” video 1993 Nouvelle Chines: Images de la Diaspora Chinoise, Galerie Nationale
du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France | ||
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