Dr. Emilia Yang

Biography

Emilia Yang is an artist and memory organizer based in Detroit, Michigan. Her creative practice utilizes expanded forms of digital media, including XR, transmedia, web, interactive media, films, archives, performance, and games for public interventions and the creation of community-based transformative justice memory projects. Her practice-based research explores the roles of memory, violence, emotions, performance, and political participation. Yang serves as the Director of the AMA y No Olvida, Memory Museum Against Impunity, which is a conceptual community memory museum created in collaboration with the Association of Mother April (AMA). This museum explores participatory forms of art and the design of remembering, demanding justice for victims of state violence in her home country of Nicaragua. She earned her PhD in Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice from the University of Southern California and her Master of Arts in Communications from Pennsylvania State University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, where she is also affiliated with the Digital Studies Institute and several other research centers. Yang’s work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the New Latin American Voices award at the New Images Festival in Paris and selection as a Public Art Engagement Fellow at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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