Rui Hu is an Assistant Professor in digital media at DKU. As a media artist working with video, installation, and computer simulation, his practice engages with issues related to time and temporality from a multitude of perspectives, such as causation, prediction, decision-making, and language. His work received the Best Experimental Animation Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival and Jury Special Mention at 25FPS Festival Croatia, and has been shown in exhibitions and screenings at art spaces, institutions, festivals, and conferences internationally, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam; UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; IFVA at Hong Kong Arts Centre; Times Museum, Guangzhou; Objetifs, Singapore; Wuhan Biennale; Siggraph Asia, Tokyo, among others. He received an MFA in Design Media Arts from UCLA.
Ye Odelia Lu is an essayist, translator, and educator with an MFA degree in Writing and Literary Translation from Columbia University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of language, culture, race, and nation. She is also fascinated by the potential of video games as a vigorous medium for storytelling. Her work has appeared in Sine Theta Magazine, Columbia Journal, The Margins, Epiphany Magazine, Samovar, and is forthcoming in Canto Aiiieeeee! Cantonese American Reverberations in Literature, Theater, Martial Arts, and Popular Culture. In 2023, she was awarded the Travel Fellowship by the American Literary Translators Association. She now teaches Writing and Translation at Duke Kunshan University in China.
