Erica Cho

Erica Cho is a bi-coastal (Philadelphia and Los Angeles) visual artist, animator, and filmmaker.{{cite web|title=Creative Capital|url=http://creative-capital.org/grantees/view/186/project:150|publisher=Creative Capital|accessdate=8 February 2015}} They are Assistant Professor of Narrative Media in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and were previously a visiting assistant professor at Swarthmore College in the Film and Media Studies department.{{Cite web|url=https://visarts.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/erica-cho.html|title=Erica Cho|website=visarts.ucsd.edu|access-date=2019-12-08}}{{cite web|title=Profile: Erica Cho|url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/profile/erica-cho|accessdate=8 February 2015}} Cho has acted as a film curator for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival since 2011{{cite web|title=Los Angeles Asian Pacific Filmfest|url=http://asianfilmfestla.org/2014/festival-programmers-recommend-you-see/erica-cho-recommends/|website=Los Angeles Asian Pacific Filmfest|publisher=Visual Communications|accessdate=8 March 2015}}, and organized and founded the first Tri-Co Film Festival in 2012.{{cite web|title=Haverford College - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! The Third-Annual Tri-College Film Festival|url=http://www.haverford.edu/HCAH/center/story.php?id=78311&u=11|website=Haverford College Center for the Arts and Humanities|publisher=Haverford College|accessdate=8 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402130102/http://www.haverford.edu/HCAH/center/story.php?id=78311&u=11|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}} They have received the Creative Capital Moving Image Award, among other awards.{{Cite web |url=http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/150 |title=Our Cosmos, Our Chaos |access-date=2016-06-15 |archive-date=2016-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414073654/http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/150 |url-status=dead }}

Cho's work often explores various intersections between LGBTQ and Asian-American themes as described in their 2011 interview with the website Asian Gay and Proud:{{cite web|last1=Baker|first1=Miyuki|title=Out and Successful, Erica Cho – 11/26/11|url=https://asiangayandproud.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/erica-cho-112611/|website=Asian Gay and Proud|date=26 November 2011 |accessdate=8 February 2015}}

{{quotation|In my work, conceptually I’ve been interested in exploring the stereotypes of inscrutability or invisibility and being open to looking at what the potential in that stereotype might be. Asians are perceived to be inscrutable or invisible or voiceless or one of the masses, and I’ll flip it and decide to explore that stereotype and begin to see people who are extroverted and space-taking as actually lacking the ability or potential to be invisible. I know it sounds like I like the stealth ninja, but I won’t immediately accept certain qualities as a weakness."}}