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Mercedes Montemayor Elosua
Doctor of Musical Arts Student, Musical Arts
BioMercedes Montemayor is a Mexican composer and a second year DMA student at Stanford University. Drawing inspiration from textures and her painting practice, she is constantly exploring ways to translate the physicality of light into the sonic spectrum—and vice versa. Her works carry a deep emotional resonance, often blending abstract concepts with personal expression, into her electroacoustic and electronic music. She also creates multichannel installation at the CCRMA stage and the Listening room.
In addition to her composition work, Mercedes performed at Mutek Mexico 2023 alongside artists such as William Basinski, Marina Herlop, and Hatus Noit. She also interned at WSDG, an architectural acoustics firm, in the same year. Outside of music, she enjoys reading about psychology, logic, and mixing and mastering techniques; and watching films by Dogme 95 directors and David Lynch. -
Yumi Moon
Associate Professor of History and, by courtesy, of East Asian Languages and Cultures
BioI joined the department in 2006 after I completed my dissertation on the last phase of Korean reformist movements and the Japanese colonization of Korea between 1896 and 1910. In my dissertation, I revisited the identity of the pro-Japanese collaborators, called the Ilchinhoe, and highlighted the tensions between their populist orientation and the state-centered approach of the Japanese colonizers. Examining the Ilchinhoe’s reformist orientation and their dissolution by the Japanese authority led me to question what it meant to be collaborators during the period and what their tragic history tells us about empire as a political entity. I am currently working on a book manuscript centered on the theme of collaboration and empire, notably in relation to the recent revisionist assessments of empire. My next research will extend to the colonial period of Korea after the annexation and will examine what constituted colonial modernity in people’s everyday lives and whether the particulars of modernity were different in colonial and non-colonial situations. To explore these questions, I plan to look at the history of movie theaters in East Asia between 1890 and 1945, a subject which will allow me to study the interactions between the colonial authority, capitalists and consumers, as well as to look at the circulation of movies as consumed texts.
