Tran, T. Kim-Trang was born in Viet Nam and immigrated to the U.S. in 1975. She received her M.F.A. in 1993 from the California Institute of the Arts and her B.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1989. In 1991 Tran began working on the Blindness Series, an ambitious, eight-part project that investigates blindness and metaphors of blindness. Beginning with Aletheia, 1992, each tape differs from the others stylistically, yet they all relate to one another in their exploration of various physical conditions of sightlessness and their cultural ramifications, including sex and the use of blindfolds (Kore, 1994), blepharoplasty, or cosmetic eyelid creasing surgery (Operculum, 1993), video surveillance (Ocularis: Eye Surrogates, 1997), hysterical blindness (Ekleipsis, 1998), metaphor and word-blindness (Alexia, 2000), and physical blindness (Amaurosis: a portrait of Nguyen Duc Dat, 2002). In Tran's films, information is presented in multiple, layered and often competing formats that mirror the "process by which we perceive and acquire information — be it from journalism, fictions, or our dreams."