Janice Tanaka began in the arts with the Allegro American Ballet Company, studied music composition at the Conservatorio Internaccional de Musica and later built an analog computer for processing video imagery where she began experimenting with image processing as a narrative form. Her work influenced by these early experiences blends social and political observations, philosophical inquiries, and personal introspection into an intricately woven visual collage of live action, and electronically enhanced imagery, transforming the autobiographical into the universal. Her work has been recognized nationally and internationally, receiving several awards, the most recent is the 2003 Rockefeller Film/Video Fellowship.

Work In Progress
"Swimming in Air" is a work in progress. It is a mixed media, mixed genre, experimental narrative that questions awareness, consciousness and the meaning of growing old through a bicultural perspective that attempts to redefine what it means to be alive in the second half of ones life.