#  Mingyi Yu 

Graduate Student in Film and Visual Studies

Teaching Fellow

 

 

 



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 Mingyi Yu is a PhD candidate in the Film and Visual Studies program at Harvard University where he works on media theory and cultural techniques with a focus on the history of computing and questions of historiography. Recent research topics include: the cathode-ray tube as a component of the computer; hardcopy output devices; color as a framework of algorithmic thinking; orthography and the inscription of calculi; and, the emergence of the concept of a "pre-historic" era.