“15 Hours” is an online reading club co-sponsored by the Center of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona and the College of Visual Art Research at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. The name reflects the time difference between Chongqing, China, and Tucson, Arizona, where the two universities are located. Our goal is to promote collaboration between graduate students from UA and SCFAI, enabling them to exchange insights and foster international knowledge-sharing in East Asian studies while promoting a commitment to global academic service.

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Yowei Kang, Kenneth C. C. Yang, Michał Mochocki, Jakub Majewski, Paweł Schreiber, Asian Histories and Heritages in Video Games, London: Routledge, 2024.

• Date: Friday, April 25, 2025
• Time: 6:00-7:00 PM (MST)
• Zoom meeting link: https://miami.zoom.us/j/91216169257?pwd=uSkWvSaAS1kvzXzF5UHd26Mnx5iITr.1 (Password: 661890)

• Discussants: Dr. Yuxiang Dong, Lecturer at the Department of Art and Art History in the University of Miami. An art, educational, and social worker. His current practices and research are driven by the contradiction between ethnography in the Anthropocene and the speculation of object-oriented ontology. He writes extensively at the nexus of art, technology, and society. His articles have been published in Leonardo, Photographies, Media-N, and other journals. In 2018, he was a recipient of the Joint Second Prize in the International Awards for Art Criticism. He has presented his research at Tate Liverpool, the College Art Association Annual Conference, and other international institutions and conferences.

  Ruiqi Zhang, Assistant Professor of Digital Storytelling at the University of Missouri. He is a multimedia artist who works with moving images, video installations, and game engines to explore the complexity of emerging technology and computation as the alternative narrative container. His work highlights the ability of people today to read complex information and its impact on our daily lives while forming new modes of politics, aesthetics, and consciousness. Ruiqi’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Times Art Museum (Chengdu, China) Imaginary Z Gallery (Hangzhou, China), Stove Works (Chattanooga, US), CICA Museum (Gimpo-si, South Korea), The Anderson (Richmond, US), Towson University (Baltimore, US), Cardinal Space (Baltimore, US), Thatalright Art Space (Taipei, Taiwan), and others.

• Moderator: Dr. Yanhua Zhou, Professor of Art History, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute; Affiliated Faculty, University of Arizona.
• People who are interested in literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy, game studies, and Asian studies are highly recommended to join us for the discussion. 
  

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