Further Study

Jungsub Eom (born in 1994, Incheon) is an artist who engages in various mediums, including installations, sculptures, drawings, and essays. He co-founded the art collective CALCIUM and managed an independent art space in Seoul. Jungsub earned his BFA in Sculpture from Hongik University in 2020 and his MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts in 2023. He presented a solo show at CALCIUM in 2021.

Zoe J Moon is an interdisciplinary multimedia Chicana artist and researcher born and raised in Hawthorne, California. Her practice is deeply rooted in femicide, folklore, intergenerational healing, and challenging conventional wisdom.  She uses her radical imagination to deconstruct one-sided narratives that speak to the complexities of comfortable complacency in society. As a whole, history, power structures, and identity will always inform Zoe’s practice. She revisits these themes as they apply to the social and political climate around her.

Zoe completed her bachelor’s as a Posse Scholar at Dickinson College majoring in Art & Art History and Political Science with honors. She received her MFA in Photography and Media from CalArts in 2023. She is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from The Posse Foundation (2016-2020), the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (2021), and The Provost Research Fellowship (2022). The Bartman Fund (2022, 2023)

Wes Weisbaum is a Los Angeles based 818 filmmaker and poet; their work touches on the intersections of their identity as a transmasc Salvadoran-American in the San Fernando Valley. Wes holds a B.A in Art from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, of the University of California Irvine and an MFA in photography and Media from the California Institute of the Arts. Their work has been supported by The Alpay Scholarship from the Palos Verde Art Center, The Dee Williams Memorial Grant and The Allan Sekula Social Documentary Fund.

Rendering home-movie Hi-8 to a contemporary cinematic state. The process is the statement, with collaborative hands from poem, band, to birth of what word and sound visually demand. Their films have screened at ArtShare L.A, California State University Long Beach School Of Art, Northwest Film Forum, Western Michigan University, Yiwei Gallery, and more recently at Irrational Exhibits #12: Body, Materiality and Systems at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, L.A.

Nikki Ochoa is an Ancient baby from Kudzu covered forests. She is a sculpturalist, poet, visual + performance artist, and musician. Her practice aims to create poetry that exists in the physical realm, and on nurturing community spaces outside of capital expectations. Liberation and enchantment for all. 

She loves babies and dirt. She would like to become a contortionist and build a flying machine. She likes to walk around for hours and just see how the light hits. 

Kenny Reveiz - Author of the award-winning MOPES: A Book of Poems in Three Acts, Kenneth Reveiz works critically and creatively at the intersection of empire studies, ethnic studies, and cinema studies, to advance racial and economic justice.

Shu L. Xu, a writer and scholar, received their B.A. in Comparative Literature from Reed College in 2020, and completed their M.A. in Aesthetics & Politics at CalArts in May, 2023. Their research focus is on the genealogy of Classical Chinese poetry from the early, formative period into the most flourishing phase of poetry in the early Medieval period, and the possibilities inherent in the interpretative contexts and ruptures which produced the insight that the past poses a problem for the present. Previously, Shu completed their master thesis “Crossroads: When In the Chronicles of Poetry” and edited the anthology “flesh of the concrete” which gathered critical essays and thesis excerpts from the MA Aesthetics and Politics cohort. They will be teaching undergraduate courses on the poetics and politics of ancient Queer literature under the auspices of the 2023-2024 Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship in the School of Critical Studies from CalArts. Currently, Shu is working on a journal article on two thousand years of interpretative debates concerning the The Book of Odes, as well as contributing to a new project on the experience of love in the decline of Empire. 

Alex Ahr is a filmmaker and visual artist from Texas living in Los Angeles California. Their work involves narrative animation and manuscript making in a variety of experimental mediums. Their work tackles themes of social dysfunction, paralysis, and the black comedy of difficult lives.  Their research interests include pre-industrial bookmaking and illustration, and eastern European independent animation. They are concerned primarily with the creation of artworks that challenge the status quo of their times. They have an MFA in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts and are a former Sundance Fellow.

Advik Beni is a South African born artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. He received his Bachelors at the University of Cape Town and then graduated from California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in Film Directing. Through the use of non-hierarchical, hybrid modes of filmmaking, he collectively creates imagined spaces for peoples on the fringes to express grief and trauma. His work aims to preserve a cultural tradition eclipsed by Western modes of storytelling. 

He is the founder of the sadarts foundation, a non-profit which aims—through the arts—to increase accessibility and raise awareness for mental health issues within marginalized South African communities. His work has shown at San Sebastián International Film Festival, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Encounters Film Festival, Joburg Fringe Art, Parallel Vienna, Untitled Art Miami, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival amongst others. He also received the Sundance Ignite Fellowship, Points North Fellowship and is a finalist for The One Club for Creativity’s COLORFUL 2023

Nehal Vyas is a film and video artist from India, currently based in Los Angeles. Her work explores the idea of national identity through memory, personal history and inheritance. She is a graduate from California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. She is a recipient of the Flaherty Fellowship (2022), the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Scholarship and the Lillian Disney Scholarship. Her works have shown at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, Indie Memphis Film Festival, REDCAT (Los Angeles), 2220 Arts + Archive (Los Angeles), Automata (Los Angeles), Analogica (Italy) and Mumbai International Film Festival (India). She is the co-founder of the Artists in Revolution Collective, which focuses on developing a nuanced understanding of socio-political conditions across the globe through screenings and discussions in collaboration with fellow artists and filmmakers.

Zhao Yanbin’s film and installation works focus on the interpretation of “distance” in the sense of temporality and spatiality, as well as the ruptures and relations it creates on the historical, political, cultural, and personal level. He received an MFA in Film from California Institute of the Arts.