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Social Homelessness on US Campuses, IEEE Games Entertainment & Media, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2019
It is a series of selfies (self-portrait photographs) with light and computer algorithm, compared to photography, drawing with light.
Initially, it began with an interactive art, Being Ignored Version 1.0, to recognize the dignity and humanity of those who are homeless,
being invisibly treated and ignored in Porter County, Indiana, which is relatively a wealthy county, compared with neighboring
counties in Indiana. Later, it has extended to the project, the Social Homelessness on US Campuses. It was inspired by the book, "Here I am, Faith Stories of Korean American Clergy-women". It defines that social homelessness has no friends with whom they can associate or count on, they have no place to go. They seem to be very isolated and alienated [1]. Asian Female faculty on US campuses may experience the highest levels of isolation and marginalization on US campuses [2], compared with other minority faculty groups. Particularly the Asian female Faculty from predominantly patriarchal Asian cultures may be deeply challenged to navigate where they belong between two distinguished communities, Asian, and American. For instance, their conventional social role as a full-time mother would be more supportive, inclusive, and welcoming in their traditional ethnic groups, but working as an Asian female faculty member may occasionally face less hospitable and somewhat harsh responses from the groups since their existence may negatively impact their patriarchal
hierarchy led by men. Simultaneously, the Asian female faculty may invisibly being demanded to be more persistent, dutiful, and noncomplaining
for extra service activities without compensatory supports on US campuses. Also, they may be subject to harsh teaching environments due to student resistance and lower student evaluations on US campuses. It is routinely challenged for the Asian female faculty to find psychological and social comfort zones to rest between two exclusive communities, Asian, and American. The social homelessness on US campuses is a multidisciplinary art research project to raise awareness of the Asian female faculty on US campuses by using a series of self-portrait photographs with the software, Being Ignored 1.0, as a mobile application.
Keywords: typography, visual expression, selfie, generative photography, self-portrait, generative art
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