Paul Chan
Digital Media Artist
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Paul Chan is a digital media and video artist and director of National Philistine, an online political/aesthetic think tank. Chan spent a month, December 2002-January 2003 in Baghdad as a member of the Iraq peace team. The peace team is a project of Voices in the Wilderness, which works to rally support for resisting the war in (and now occupation of) Iraq and publicize the effects of the ongoing US assault on Iraqi civilians. Chan extensively documented his surroundings in Baghdad on video. A 60-minute single channel digital video piece entitled, Baghdad in No Particular Order depicts locals’ daily activities and surroundings such as a café, a wedding party, and a military parade.
Chan is a 2003 Rockefeller Foundation new media arts fellow. His work has exhibited and screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Video Festival, and Rotterdam International Film Festival, among others. Chan will be included in the upcoming 2004 Carnegie International exhibition. Chan is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery in New York and his video work is distributed by Video Data Bank. New media work can be seen online at www.nationalphilistine.com. Chan received his B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and currently holds a position as lecturer for the department of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania.