ELLIOT BEAR YU ︎︎︎ ABOUT
ABOUT
I am a multimedia artist, game designer and scholar based in Irvine, California. I am a PhD Student in the Visual Studies Program at the UCI. Pronouns he/himRESEARCH INTERESTS
Game Studies, Experimental Media, Creative Practice, Queer/Trans Studies, Ethnic Studies, Art+Technology, The Avant-Garde, Low TheoryCV
EDUCATIONPh.D in Visual Studies,
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
2022 - now
B.A. in Philosophy,
University of California, Los Angeles
with department honors
2021
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS & GRANTS - Selected
Research, Art, Writing Conference Travel Award,
University of Texas at Dallas
Research, Art, Writing Conference Travel Award,
University of Texas at Dallas
2024
Humanities Out There Fellowship,
with the Black Panther Oakland Community School Project
2023
School of Humanities Fellowship,
University of California, Irvine
2022
UC Irvine Diversity Recruitment Fellowship,
University of California, Irvine
2022
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship,
Mellon Foundation
2019 - 2021
Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research,
University of California, Los Angeles
2021
PUBLICATIONS
peer-reviewed
A Request for Archival Assistance, in Roll for Learning: Micro TTRPGs to Use in the Classroom, a peer-reviewed edited collection published by Carnegie Mellon’s ETC Press. (In Press)
2024
Lost in a Dream: Queering Time and Space in Yume Nikki, in Press Start, a peer-reviewed student journal for the multidisciplinary subject of Game Studies [online]
non-academic publications
2023
Goncharov (1973, dir. Martin Scorsese) in “The Greatest Films You’ll Never See, Volume II, for the Brooklyn Rail, a jounral providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond. (In Press)
2024
EXHIBITIONS
ULTRA, featured in Re-Fest’s Virtual Gallery,
presented by CultureHub
ULTRA, featured in Re-Fest’s Virtual Gallery,
presented by CultureHub
2023
CONFERENCES & TALKS - Selected
Making, Breaking, and Manipulating 3D Models in 3D Spaces, Society of Cinema and Media Studies 2024 Boston Conference, March 2024. [Co-Presented with Ashlyn Sparrow, University of Chicago]
Making, Breaking, and Manipulating 3D Models in 3D Spaces, Society of Cinema and Media Studies 2024 Boston Conference, March 2024. [Co-Presented with Ashlyn Sparrow, University of Chicago]
2024
MA_DRAFT, Research, Art, Writing Conference, University of Texas at Dallas, February 2024
2024
Playing in the Archive, Black Panther Oakland Community School Research Cluster 2023 Summer Showcase, UCI, August 2023
2023
Making Games, Invited to speak to the Black Panther Oakland Community School Research Cluster, UCI, August 2023
2023
From Comedy Films to Horror Games, invited to speak at the Freshman-Transfer Summer Program, UCLA, August 2021
2021
Lost in a Dream: Wandering and Queer Exploration in the Video Game Yume Nikki, Undergraduate Research Week, UCLA, May 2021
2021
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant for Animation for Games (GDIM 129), UCI. Supervising Instructor: Jeffrey S. Bryan
Teaching Assistant for Animation for Games (GDIM 129), UCI. Supervising Instructor: Jeffrey S. Bryan
2024
Teaching Assistant for Broadcast Media History and Analysis (FLM&MDA 85B), UCI. Supervising Instructor: Victoria E. Johnson
2024
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Film and Visual Analysis (FLM&MDA 85A), UCI. Supervising Instructor: Kristen Hatch
2023
Embedded Tutor for English 1A+1AS, El Camino Community College. Supervising Instructors: Lyman Hong, Brent Isaacs, Tiffany Huynh
2021 - 2022
Peer Learning Facilitator for Interdisciplinary Academic Writing, FTSP at UCLA. Supervising Instructor: Phil Wagner
2021
Peer Learning Facilitator for English Composition 3, FTSP at UCLA. Supervising Instructor: Phil Wagner
2020
PROFESSIONAL & SERVICE
Council Member, for the Associated Graduate Students at UCI
Council Member, for the Associated Graduate Students at UCI
2023 - 2024
Committee Member, for the Associated Graduate Students’ Finance Committee
2023 - 2024
Juror in the digital games section for IndieCade
2023
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)
Discord Academic Research Community (D/ARC)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Critical Approaches to Technology and the Social Lab (CATS Lab), UCI
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)
Discord Academic Research Community (D/ARC)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Critical Approaches to Technology and the Social Lab (CATS Lab), UCI