Janice Tanaka
California-based Janice Tanaka is considered a pioneer in the use of processed images within experimental narrative form. She brings a painter's sensibility to her intricately textured video collages that blend social and political observations, philosophical inquiries, and personal introspection. Her work uses original footage, appropriated media images, and densely layered electronic processing to transform the autobiographical into the universal. Her tapes treat issues of Asian American history and identity, from the enduring trauma of internment camps during World War II to the blending of cultural values from the Old to New World.

  

Titles by Janice Tanaka:

Beaver Valley

Duality Duplicity

Memories from the Department of Amnesia

No Hop Sing, No Bruce Lee

Swimming in Air

Who's Gonna Pay for These Donuts Anyway?


Work by Janice Tanaka also appears on:

Anthology: I Say I Am: Program 1