Dr. Van Tran Nguyen (Visiting Professor, Theatre Scholarship and Performance Studies) will be screening her short film, ERIE COUNTY SMILE (PBS, 2021), a production made with green-screen processing. There will be a Q and A to follow and Dr. Tran Nguyen will lead a hands-on video editing and green-screen workshop showcasing green-screen as a digital narrative form. She will discuss her own video practice, highlighting her use of green-screen as a medium for diasporic folklore. Beginner video editors are welcome to attend!
Short Film Screening + Performance/Technology Workshop with Dr. Van Tran Nguyen
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
6-7:30pm (dinner will be served starting at 5:30!)
Susquehanna Hall 1120
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Tran Nguyen (she/her) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and scholar. She was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Her first short film, ERIE COUNTY SMILE released in 2021 and is available for public access via the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Her first full-length feature film, The Motherload, will be released in the winter of 2023.In 2017, Tran Nguyen earned a master's degree in fine arts from the State University of New York, at Buffalo. Then in 2021, she earned her doctorate in the Philosophy of Electronic Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Tran Nguyen has exhibited artwork in many solo and group exhibitions; such as Shape of a Pocket (2017, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center), Strange Agency (2017, Buffalo Arts Studio), Paris, Orange County (2020, Lycoming College), Women in Film (2021, Singapore’s Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film) and, Futurities Uncertain (2022, Cornell Biennial) to name a few. In 2022 Tran Nguyen was granted the Windgate Artist-In-Residence title and fund which commissioned new work (a 2022 solo exhibition titled, i can’t swim) through the Purchase Foundation.
She is the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance and Technology Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Tran Nguyen teaches courses in digital filmmaking, new media, the Asian American diaspora, and its many representations. Her scholarship emphasizes the literature, performance, and lived experience of diasporic Vietnamese people in the United States.
