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Pirated: a post asian perspectiveArtists: CURATORSSAMANTHA CHANSE is a writer and performer who has been involved with KSW since moving to the Bay Area in 2001. She is a member playwright of the Asian American Theater Company's Incubator program, has produced and performed work at Bindlestiff Studio, and is a co-director of Locus Arts, a volunteer- run arts nonprofit based in SF. A native new yorker who also performs standup comedy and music, she completed undergraduate studies at Brown University. She currently serves as the program director of KSW. DEREK CHUNG is a photographer, painter and co-founder of Tactile Pictures, a digital design studio in San Francisco. At Tactile, he created the awardwinning Tactile12000 MP3 DJ software, featured in Print Magazine. He also develops web sites for nonprofit organizations and foundations, and software for clients including Apple Computer, Macromedia and MTV.com. He helped create the Global Arcade web site in 1998 at an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. In 2000, he helped produce the Whirled Bank website to critically analyze the role of the World Bank in global poverty. Derek is also a visual curator for KSW's APAture, and is currently resisting modern photography by accumulating and using vintage cameras. View his work at derekchung.org. PEGGY CHUNG is a visual artist based in Oakland, and an Adjunct Professor at the California College of the Arts. She serves as an Alameda County Art Commissioner and chairs the Public Art Advisory Committee. Her work is represented in both public and private collections and is the recipient of several international grants and awards. She received a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. VALERIE SOE is a writer and experimental videomaker from San Francisco whose productions include “Mixed Blood”, “Picturing Oriental Girls: A (Re) Educational Videotape” (Best Bay Area Short, Golden Gate Awards, San Francisco International Film Festival) and “ALL ORIENTALS LOOK THE SAME” (Best Foreign Video, Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani; First Place, Experimental Category, Visions of U.S. Festival). Awards include a 1998 Creative Work Fund Grant, 1997 James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, and a 1992 Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film/Video Fellowship. Her most recent video, “Carefully Taught” (2002) has screened across the country and worldwide. Her interactive cd-rom and installation, “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?”, created in collaboration with Glenda Egan Drew, premiered at the Exploratorium in 2002. Soe also writes art criticism and has been published in Afterimage, High Performance, Cinematograph and sfgate.com, among others. She has curated several exhibitions including “Girl To Woman: Stories For The New Feminism”, “Teen Scream: Girls Make Movies” and “Teen Riot”, as well as several programs on experimental Asian American film and video. She is on faculty at San Francisco State University's Asian American Studies Department.
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