Janice Tanaka is a Japanese-American media artist born in Hollywood, California[1][date?]
Tanaka is best known for Memories from the Department of Amnesia, an experimental documentary about the death of her mother, and Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts Any, which chronicles the life of her father, who was interned in camps during World War II.
Lily divorced Jack during the war, and moved the family to a predominantly white neighborhood in Chicago.
[3] After receiving her MFAdegree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she taught ay the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1980.
describes her work as, "Tanaka's videos are documentary in style, using a variety of techniques; some images are abstract, distorted, and blurred to an unrecognizable degree, while others are clear and informal, as if they could be a family snapshot.