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bio: She was born and raised in San Francisco, California where she started creating videos at the tender age of 12 with a stop-animation using a VHS camera. At Lowell High School, she continued using videos for school projects as a way to rid herself of performance anxiety. From 1997-2001, she attended the University of California at Berkeley where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Asian American Studies. She created videos exposing herself, her family and friends before moving into a feminist focus after attending Loni Ding’s Ethnic Studies social documentary class. After working with Loni on her Ancestors in the Americas series, Vivian moved to New York to attend the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She was part of the trio, Hello Kitty is Dead Productions, which received the 2004 Nia Initiative Award from New York University for increasing Asian American profiles in the New York City community for Fortunes for Cookies - a video diary workshop for seven high-school students. She served as Festival Coordinator for Asian CineVision's 28th Asian American International Film Festival in 2005 and was the videographer/webcaster for New School University’s public lectures. She went on to be the video engineer for Zomboid!, a film and performance project by the playwright, Richard Foreman for the Ontological-Hysteric Theater before fleeing Spanish Harlem to Amsterdam. Since 2006, she has been living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands where she is currently finishing her MFA at the Sandberg Institute. Her current projects include portraits on Latina graffiti artists in NYC, a contemporary geisha in Tokyo, and an Asian fetish model in Amsterdam. images:
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