ELLIOT BEAR YU ︎︎︎ ABOUT
ABOUT
I am a multimedia artist, 3D modeler, game designer and scholar based in Los Angeles, California. Pronouns he/him. My research and work is largely interested in games, experimental media, creative practives, queer/trans studies, ethnic studies, the avant-garde, low theory...CV
A full CV can be provided upon request from elliot.b.yu@gmail.comEDUCATION
M.F.A in Design Media Arts,
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
2024 - Present
M.A. in Visual Studies,
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
2024
B.A. in Philosophy,
University of California, Los Angeles
with department honors
2021
FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
Artist, IKEA Residency
Artist, IKEA Residency
2024
Graduate Researcher, Humanities Out There Fellowship with the Black Panther Oakland Community School Project
2023
Undergraduate Fellow, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship
2019 - 2021
AWARDS & GRANTS - selected
Graduate Opportunity Program (GOP), UCLA
Graduate Opportunity Program (GOP), UCLA
2024
School of Humanities’ Fellowship, UCI
2022
UC Irvine Diversity Recruitment Fellowship, UCI
Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research, UCLA
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. [online]
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
MA_Draft, Digital Games Research Association 2024 Guadalajara, August 2024
MA_Draft, Digital Games Research Association 2024 Guadalajara, August 2024
2024
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]
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
TEACHING EXPERIENCE - Selected
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
Spring 2024
Teaching Assistant for Broadcast Media History and Analysis (FLM&MDA 85B), UCI. Supervising Instructor: Victoria E. Johnson
Winter 2024
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Film and Visual Analysis (FLM&MDA 85A), UCI. Supervising Instructor: Kristen Hatch
Fall 2023
PROFESSIONAL & SERVICE
Juror in Indicade’s 2024 Climate Jam
2024
Juror in the digital games section for IndieCade
2024, 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