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Bruce Yonemoto and Norman Yonemoto are two Los Angeles, California -based video / installation artists of Japanese American heritage. Family background and birth. Bruce and Norman Yonemoto's family was among the 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II.
Mar 3, 2014 · NORMAN YONEMOTO, A LOS ANGELES ARTIST who along with his younger brother, Bruce, created innovative video installations that often explored mass media, Hollywood and other forms of pop culture, has died. He was 67. Yonemoto died Friday at his home in Venice.
Oct 26, 2022 · exploration of longing, belonging, and freedom. Bruce and Norman Yonemoto’s Green Card: An American Romance screened here October 26–November 9, 2022. The video is no longer available for streaming. Join us for the next Hyundai Card Video Views screening, beginning November 16, 2022.
Jan 22, 2017 · Beginning in the mid-1970s, Japanese-American brothers Bruce Yonemoto and the late Norman Yonemoto produced a body of work that played a central role in establishing video as a viable artistic medium.
Mar 4, 2014 · Norman Yonemoto, a Los Angeles artist who along with his younger brother, Bruce, created innovative video installations that often explored mass media, Hollywood and other forms of pop culture, has...
California-based artists Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, brothers who produced a body of collaborative videos beginning in 1976, deconstruct and rewrite the hyperbolic vernacular with which the mass media constructs cultural mythologies.
The Yonemoto brothers base their videotapes on familiar narrative forms and then circumvent convention through direct, over-eager adoption of heavily clichéd dialogue, music, gestures, and scenes that click in the viewer’s memory without being identifiable.
